Children, Health & the Environment

	Seen, but Not Heard: Placing Children and Youth on the Security Governance Agenda David Nosworthy. 2009. Seen, but Not Heard : Placing Children and Youth on the Security Governance Agend. LIT The restoration of justice and security is a priority of post-conflict peacebuilding,... read more Posted on 09-06-2009

	US Variations in Child Health System Performance K. Shea, K. Davis, and E. Schor, U.S. Variations in Child Health System Performance: A State Scorecard, The Commonwealth Fund, May 2008 Summary: This report examines child health care systems in US... read more Posted on 05-05-2009

	Ascertaining the Prevalence of Childhood Disability Paper by T. Hutchison and D. Gordon Accepted for publication 17 June 2004, Child Health Department, Bath and North-east Somerset Primary Care Trust, Bath, and School for Policy Studies University of... read more Posted on 05-04-2009

	Global Health Council on the Importance of Child Health The Importance of Child Health : The Right to Health International consensus supports a rights-based approach to address children’s health and wellbeing, given the importance links between early childhood living and... read more Posted on 06-05-2009

	Child Health in Statistics Child Health in Statistics According to the World Bank, each year over 10 million children will die before reaching their 5th birthday. While these numbers are predominantly higher in low and... read more Posted on 06-05-2009

	USA National Child Study currenty on-going "The National Children’s Study will examine the effects of environmental influences on the health and development of 100,000 children across the United States, following them from before birth until age... read more Posted on 04-30-2009

	Asia Catalyst Report on HIV/AIDS Treatment Access for Children in China Asia Catalyst has launched a report on access to treatment for children with HIV/AIDS, I Will Fight to My Last Breath: Barriers to AIDS Treatment For Children in China. Thousands of... read more Posted on 06-05-2009

	World Vision Hope Initiative - Will Universal Action Now Include Children? World Vision is a Christian relief, development, and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. Part of its mandate is to explore... read more Posted on 06-05-2009

	Research Links Poverty and Stress in Children with Brain Impairment A recent article by Rob Stein in the Washington Post notes that "Children raised in poverty suffer many ill effects: They often have health problems and tend to struggle in... read more Posted on 06-16-2009

	Breast Feeding versus Infant Formula in Sub-Saharan Africa As part of its global efforts to reduce infant mortality worldwide, UNICEF has acknolwedged the importance of breastfeeding as a significant goal. UNICEF therefore endorses the Global Strategy on Infant... read more Posted on 06-05-2009

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Child Health and Wellbeing
Health Equity for children Could Help Save Millions of Lives Worldwide.

According to the Global Health Council, "Over the last 30 years, the global community has used effective and targeted methods to save the lives of millions of children. Despite...

Child Rights and Child Poverty: Can the International Framework of Children's Rights Be Used to Improve Child Survival Rates?

by Simon Pemberton, David Gordon, Shailen Nandy, Christina Pantazis, and Peter Townsend
Published online 2007 October 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040307

This paper explains how the international framework of human rights can be better used to...

Children, Health and the Environment

Children face innumerable risks to their health and wellbeing, and these are directly linked the environments they live in. The physical or built environments (or lack there of) as well as environmental pollution affect the deveopment and wellbeing...

Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health