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- Infant Care and Infant Health - NICHD
About Infant Care and Infant Health What is infancy? Infancy is generally considered to be the period from birth until age 2 years It is a time of rapid growth and change for children and families This health topic covers some of the many issues related to infant health and infant care, including:
- WHO recommendations on newborn health: guidelines approved by the WHO . . .
Overview Please note that this publication is being updated This publication on WHO recommendations related to newborn health is one of four in a series; the others relate to maternal, child and adolescent health The objective of this document is to make available WHO recommendations on newborn health in one easy-to-access document for WHO staff, policy-makers, programme managers, and health
- Newborn health - World Health Organization (WHO)
To ensure every child survives and thrives to reach their full potential, we must focus on improving care around the time of birth and the first week of life The high rates of preventable death and poor health and well-being of newborns and children under the age of five are indicators of the uneven coverage of life-saving interventions and, more broadly, of inadequate social and economic
- WHO Guideline for complementary feeding of infants and young children 6 . . .
This guideline provides global, normative evidence-based recommendations on complementary feeding of infants and young children 6–23 months of age living in low, middle- and high-income countries It considers the needs of both breastfed and non-breastfed children The guideline supersedes the earlier Guiding Principles for Complementary Feeding of the Breastfed Child and Guiding principles
- Child Health and Development
Healthy growth 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
- Child mortality (under 5 years)
Child SurvivalKey facts In 2020 an estimated 5 million children under the age of 5 years died, mostly from preventable and treatable causes Approximately half of those deaths, 2 4 million, occurred among newborns (in the first 28 days of life) While the global under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) fell to 37 deaths per 1000 live births in 2020, children in sub-Saharan continued to have the highest
- Body mass index-for-age (BMI-for-age)
Home Tools and toolkits Child growth standards Standards Body mass index-for-age (BMI-for-age)
- Extremely Preterm Birth Outcomes Tool | NICHD - NICHD - Eunice Kennedy . . .
Healthcare providers and families face significant challenges in making care decisions for extremely preterm infants They make decisions about individual infants based on each infant’s situation and using the best available information at the time Through its research, NICHD aims to better inform healthcare providers and families about the health, survival, and development of infants born
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