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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 ...

Child Health and Development - World Health Organization (WHO)
11th Meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts (STAGE) for Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (MNCAHN) 10 – 12 June 2025 Webinar: Using digital technologies to enhance implementation of home-based records / personal health records for maternal, newborn and child health

Child growth - World Health Organization (WHO)
Child wasting refers to a child who is too thin for his or her height and is the result of recent rapid weight loss or the failure to gain weight. A child who is moderately or severely wasted has an increased risk of death, but treatment is possible. Childhood wasting and overweight are both forms of malnutrition and can coexist in a population.

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

Can "childs" ever be the plural of "child", in standard English?
No, "childs" was never a plural of child. See Etymononline's entry for child: . The difficulty with the plural began in Old English, where the nominative plural was at first cild, identical with the singular, then c.975 a plural form cildru (genitive cildra) arose, probably for clarity's sake, only to be re-pluraled late 12c. as children, which is thus a double plural.

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.

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 maltreatment - World Health Organization (WHO)
Overview. Child maltreatment is the abuse and neglect that occurs to children under 18 years of age. It includes all types of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect, negligence and commercial or other exploitation, which results in actual or potential harm to the child’s health, survival, development or dignity in the context of a relationship of responsibility, trust ...

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 ...

Height-for-age (5-19 years) - World Health Organization (WHO)
Growth reference 5-19 years - Height-for-age (5-19 years) When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select.