Child and adolescent health and development: progress report 2006-2007
Overview
This publication outlines the Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development's (CAH) key achievements during the 2006-2007 biennium. It includes a message from the Director and highlights from the following areas of work.
The health of newborns:
- Causes of newborn deaths
- Newborn guidelines
- Newborns in IMCI
Infant Feeding:
- Breastfeeding
- HIV and infant feeding
- Infant feeding indicators
Child health and development:
- MDG 4: How are we doing?
- IMCI coverage and evaluation
- Country Profiles
- Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children
- Bringing health to communities
- New approaches to training health workers
- New treatment for severe malnutrition at community level
- Paediatric HIV
- Pneumonia
- ORS+Zinc
- Child Development
- Child and Adolescent Rights
- Regional Story: Eastern Mediterranean Region
Adolescent health and development:
- Gathering and using strategic information
- Developing supportive, evidence-informed policies
- Scaling up the provision of health services and commodities
- Strengthening action in other sectors and civil society
- Building capacity
- Supporting country action.