Resources

Child health

Alphabetical order

• 2010 Countdown to 2015 Decade Report (2000-2010)
  Countdown to 2015 Initiative (2010)
• Accelerating Action on the MDGs: Delivering for Girls, Women and Babies
  Women Deliver (2010)
• Action briefs for children
  UNICEF (2009)
• Advocacy tools for 7-11 year olds
  Save the Children (2008)
• Association of Maternal Stature With Offspring Mortality, Underweight, and Stunting in Low- to Middle-Income Countries
  JAMA (2010)
• Call for papers: Fighting malnutrition efficiently- Best practices and ways forward
  Copenhagen Consensus Center and Gumlink (2009)
• Causes of deaths in children younger than 5 years in China in 2008
  The Lancet (2010)
• Child health and the missing link: Working with the private sector for better results
  The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (2010)
• Child Health Now
  World Vision (2009)
• Child health: Generating the will
  Global Future (2009)
• Child info: Monitoring the situation of women and children
  UNICEF (2008)
• Child maltreatment
  The Lancet Series (2008)
• Children and AIDS: Fourth stocktaking report, 2009
  UNICEF (2009)
• Climate change and children: A human security challenge
  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (2009)
• Community-based interventions for diarrhoeal diseases and acute respiratory infections in Nepal
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2010)
• Countdown to 2015 dfor maternal, newborn & child survival: Press release
  The Lancet (2010)
• Diarrheal disease: Solutions to defeat a global killer
  PATH (2009)
• Diarrhoea : Why children are still dying and what can be done
  WHO/UNICEF (2009)
• Does money matter? The effects of cash transfers on child health and development in rural Ecuador
  Princeton University/World Bank (2007)
• Economics of early childhood policy
  RAND Corporation, Sponsored by Casey Family Programs (2008)
• Effectiveness of interventions to address health inequalities in the early years: A review of relevant literature (The)
  Scottish Government, Health Analytical Services Division (2008)
• effects of childhood stress on health across the lifespan (The)
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2008)
• Effects of the World Bank’s maternal and child health intervention on Indonesia’s poor: Evaluating the safe motherhood project
  Social Science & Medicine (2010)
• Equity and child-survival strategies
  World Health Organization (2008)
• Essential MNCH Knowledge: A portal to RMNCH resources
• Fatal neglect: How health systems are failing to comprehensively address child mortality
  WaterAid (2009)
• Feeling the heat: Child survival in a changing climate
  Save the Children (2009)
• Formative experiences: The interaction of caregiving, culture, and developmental psychobiology
  The Foundation for Psychocultural Research (2010)
• Full document: Global Strategy for Women's and Children's health
  United Nations Secretary-General (2010)
• Fundraising with Save the Children
  Save the Children (2008)
• Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: a systematic analysis
  The Lancet (2010)
• Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: a systematic analysis
  The Lancet (2010)
• Guidelines for producing child health subaccounts
  WHO, USAID, UNICEF and The Partnership (2008)
• Helping children survive
  Save the Children UK (2008)
• Home treatment of pneumonia safe and effective
  World Health Organization (2008)
• How can child and maternal mortality be cut?
  BMJ (2010)
• Hunger and malnutrition
  Copenhagen Consensus Center (2008)
• Improving children's health and the environment: Examples from the WHO European Region
  WHO Regional Office for Europe (2009)
• India: National Child Health Resource center
  National Institute of Health & Family Welfare
• Information by country
  UNICEF (2008)
• Investing wisely in child survival with the Lives Saved Tool (LiST)
  John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2010)
• Invitation to Child2015: Child healthcare information and learning discussion group
  Global Healthcare Information Network & International Child Health Group (2008)
• Lancet Series: Maternal and child undernutrition (The)
  The Lancet (2008)
• Levels and trends in child mortality
  UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA/Population Division (2010)
• Maternal and child health in Namibia
  World Health Organization (2009)
• Maternal and Child Health Library
  Georgetown University, USA (2008)
• Maternal, neonatal and child health interventions and services: moving from knowledge of what works to systems that deliver
  International Health 2010)
• Maternal, newborn, child and reproductive health
  Global Health Council (2010)
• Millennium Development Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
  DFID (2008)
• Millennium Development Goals fail poor children: The case for equity-adjusted measures
  Public Library of Sciences - Medicine (2009)
• Narrowing socioeconomic inequality in child stunting: the Brazilian experience, 1974–2007
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2010)
• Narrowing the gaps to meet the goals
  UNICEF (2010)
• Neonatal, postneonatal, childhood and under-5 mortality for 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4
  The Lancet (2010)
• Online library
  Save the Children (2008)
• Outreach strategies for expanding health insurance coverage in children
  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2010)
• Packages of interventions for family planning, safe abortion care, maternal, newborn and child health
  World Health Organization (2010)
• PMNCH Knowledge Summaries (KS): Introduction
• Programme for Global Paediatric Research Award For Outstanding Contributions to Global Child Health
  Programme for Global Paediatric Research, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (2008)
• Progress for children: A report card on maternal mortality
  UNICEF (2008)
• Progress for children: Achieving the MDGs with equity
  UNICEF (2010)
• Reaching the poor: Challenges for child health in the Western Pacific Region
  World Health Organization (2007)
• Reducing maternal deaths
  Phnom Penh Post (2009)
• SAVE THE CHILDREN : A fair chance at life - Why equity matters for child mortality
  7 SEPTEMBER 2010 - Four million child deaths could have been prevented over ten years if countries had made the same effort to help poor children as better-off ones, Save the Children said today.
• School feeding for improving the physical and psychosocial health of disadvantaged students
  JohnWiley & Sons, Ltd (2010)
• Scientists without borders maternal health and nutrition challenge
  Scientists Without Borders (2010)
• Self-evaluation model and tool on the respect of Children's Rights in Hospital
  International Network on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services (2009)
• Self-evaluation model and tool on the respect of children’s rights in hospital
  International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services (2010)
• Shared Principles of Ethics for Infant and Young Child Nutrition in the Developing World
  BMC Public Health (2010)
• Social protection in health schemes for mother and child population: lessons learned from the Latin American Region
  PAHO (2008)
• Sources and Prices of Selected Medicines for Children
  UNICEF/WHO (2010)
• State of the World Children 2007
  UNICEF (2007)
• State of the World Children 2008
  UNICEF (2008)
• State of the World Children 2009
  15 JANUARY 2009 | JOHANESBURG/NEW YORK/GENEVA - Women in the world’s least developed countries are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications than women in developed countries, according to UNICEF’s latest State of the World’s Children report.
• State of the World's Children - Special edition
  UNICEF (2009)
• State of the world's vaccines and immunization. Third edition
  World Health Organization, UNICEF & The World Bank (2009)
• Sub-national assessment of inequality trends in neonatal and child mortality in Brazil
  International Journal for Equity in Health (2010)
• Taking Action: Nutrition for Survival, Growth & Development
  Action Against Hunger (ACF) (2010)
• The State of the Asia Pacific’s Children Report
  5 August 2008 - The State of Asia-Pacific’s Children 2008 highlights the need to position child survival at the heart of the Asia-Pacific region’s development and human rights agenda.
• Tracking official development assistance for child health: challenges and prospects
  USAID (2006)
• Tracking progress on child and maternal nutrition: A survival and development priority
  UNICEF (2009)
• Tracking progress towards universal childhood immunisation and the impact of global initiatives
  The Lancet (2008)
• UNESCO EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010: ‘Reaching the marginalized’ launches
  UNESCO (2010)
• Water, sanitation and hygiene interventions to combat childhood diarrhoea in developing countries
  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) (2009)
• Who cares for baby?
  British Medical Journal (2007)
• World report on child injury prevention
  WHO/UNICEF (2008)

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