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Children and young people’s mental health: the case for action Yet investment remains low: mental health receives less than 2% of national health budgets on average, with little allocated to children and adolescents In low-income countries, there are fewer than 0 01 child mental health workers per 100,000 people, and services are often out of reach From fragmented efforts to holistic impact
Child health More than half of child deaths are due to conditions that could be easily prevented or treated given access to health care and improvements to their quality of life At the same time, children must also be given a stable environment in which to thrive, including good health and nutrition, protection from threats and access to opportunities to
World Patient Safety Day - World Health Organization (WHO) That’s why World Patient Safety Day 2025 is dedicated to ensuring safe care for every newborn and child, with a special focus on those from birth to nine years old This year’s slogan, “Patient safety from the start!” , emphasizes the urgent need to act early and consistently to prevent harm throughout childhood, and yield benefits
Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing Department To advance efforts to implement the life course approach in practice, WHO Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing leads a collaborative programme to produce evidence and analyses supporting normative and technical work at the global level
Child Health and Development - World Health Organization (WHO) Call for members to the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts (STAGE) on Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition (MNCAHN), 2025 27 November 2024 Call for experts
Policy and education: ways to end child marriage and prevent adolescent . . . “The effective implementation of this law shows a change in the social norms that perpetuate child marriage A joint effort by authorities and society is required to eradicate this practice and guarantee the protection of girls' rights,” said Tamara Ospina, the Government of Colombia’s Vice Minister of Women
Child growth standards - World Health Organization (WHO) This web site presents the WHO Child Growth Standards These standards were developed using data collected in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study The site presents documentation on how the physical growth curves and motor milestone windows of achievement were developed as well as application tools to support implementation of the standards
Nutrition and Food Safety - World Health Organization (WHO) Child malnutrition estimates for the indicators stunting, severe wasting, wasting, overweight and underweight describe the magnitude and patterns of under- and overnutrition The UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates (JME) inter-agency group regularly updates the global and regional estimates in prevalence and numbers for
Head circumference for age - World Health Organization (WHO) Child growth standards Standards; Head circumference for age Length height-for-age; Weight-for-age; Weight-for-length height; Body mass index-for-age (BMI-for-age) Arm circumference-for-age; Subscapular skinfold-for-age; Triceps skinfold-for-age; Motor development milestones; Weight velocity; Length velocity; Head circumference velocity
Child mortality (under 5 years) - World Health Organization (WHO) Member States need to set their own targets and develop specific strategies to reduce child mortality and monitor their progress In 2020, 125 countries have already met the SDG target for under-5 mortality and a further 16 countries are expected to meet the target by 2030 if current trends continue