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- Child health
Child healthProtecting and improving the health of children is of fundamental importance Over the past several decades, we have seen dramatic progress in improving the health and reducing the mortality rate of young children Among other encouraging statistics, the number of children dying before the age of 5 was halved from 2000 to 2017, and more mothers and children are surviving today than
- Child Health and Development - World Health Organization (WHO)
Child Health and DevelopmentThe goal of the Child Health and Development Unit is to end preventable child deaths and promote the healthy growth and development of all children in the first decade of their life
- Rethinking the child health agenda
The survival of children under 5 years of age was the principal focus of the global child health agenda over past decades As a result, a child mortality was reduced by 60% between 1990 and 2019 High rates of under-five mortality are now concentrated in certain geographic regions (especially sub-Saharan Africa) and in vulnerable populations
- Child Health and Development
Child Health and Development The goal of the Child Health and Development Unit is to end preventable child deaths and promote the healthy growth and development of all children in the first decade of their life
- Children and young people’s mental health: the case for action
WHO advocates for a comprehensive response to the mental health needs of children and young people, with a focus on strengthening policies and legislation; promoting enabling environments (in homes, schools, communities, workplaces and digital spaces) and building preventive and care services
- Managing childhood illness - Child health
At first-level health facilities in low-resource countries, diagnostic supports such as radiology and laboratory services are minimal or non-existent, and drugs and equipment are often scarce To ensure high-quality care despite these limitations, WHO promotes the continued implementation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)
- Child Health and Development
In health facilities, the IMCI strategy promotes the accurate identification of childhood illnesses in outpatient settings, ensures appropriate combined treatment of all major conditions that affect a young child, strengthens the counselling of caretakers, and speeds up the referral of severely ill newborns and children
- Decades of progress in reducing child deaths and stillbirths under . . .
The number of children dying globally before their fifth birthday declined to 4 8 million in 2023, while stillbirths declined modestly, still remaining around 1 9 million, according to two new reports released today by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
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