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Children represent the future, and ensuring their healthy growth and development ought to be a prime concern of all societies. Newborns are particularly vulnerable and children are vulnerable to malnutrition and infectious diseases, many of which can be effectively prevented or treated.

GENERAL

Q&A: What are the key health dangers for children?

Child health news

MULTIMEDIA

Features: child and adolescent health

Features: reproductive, maternal and child health

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- Children's environmental health
- Clinical trials in children

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)

Newborns, infants and children

Global strategy for infant and young child feeding

- More information on child health

PUBLICATIONS

Pocket book of hospital care for children

Evidence on the long-term effects of breastfeeding

The adolescent with a chronic condition

- More publications on child health

STATISTICS

Data, statistics and epidemiology

WHO PROGRAMME AND ACTIVITIES

Department of Child and Adolescent and Development (CAH)

PARTNERS

Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health

Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)

CHILD HEALTH IN WHO REGIONS

African Region
Region of the Americas–PAHO
South-East Asia Region
European Region
Eastern Mediterranean Region
Western Pacific Region

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