Promoting healthy growth and development - World Health …
2024年11月20日 · The way mothers, fathers and other caregivers nurture and support children in the early years is among the most decisive factors for healthy growth and development, with lifelong and intergenerational benefits for health, productivity and social cohesion. To grow and develop optimally, children need to receive nurturing care.
Child health
2024年11月20日 · Child health, growth and development are inseparable. In 2016, at least 250 million children were not able to reach their full physical or psychological development. This represents the staggering figure of 43%. Violence against children is also rampant. In 2019, abuse or neglect affected as many as 1 billion children.
Child Health and Development - World Health Organization (WHO)
The goal of the Child Health and Development Unit is to end preventable child deaths and promote the healthy growth and development of all children in the first decade of their life. About us Technical areas of work
To grow up healthy, children need to sit less and play more
2019年4月24日 · Children under five must spend less time sitting watching screens, or restrained in prams and seats, get better quality sleep and have more time for active play if they are to grow up healthy, according to new guidelines issued by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Children: new threats to health - World Health Organization (WHO)
2020年11月19日 · No country is currently providing the conditions needed to support every child to grow up and have a healthy future. Children (aged 0 to 18 years) today face a host of new threats linked to climate change, pollution, harmful commercial marketing, unhealthy lifestyles and diets, injury and violence, conflict, migration and inequality.
Healthy diet - World Health Organization (WHO)
Advice on a healthy diet for infants and children is similar to that for adults, but the following elements are also important: Infants should be breastfed exclusively during the first 6 months of life. Infants should be breastfed continuously until 2 years of age and beyond.
Children's environmental health - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年9月13日 · A safe, healthy and protective environment is key to ensuring all children can grow and develop to their full potential. In 2016, reducing environmental risks could have prevented almost 1.6 million deaths in children under 5 years.
Healthy growth and development - World Health Organization …
To grow and develop optimally, children need adequate nutrition, they need to be healthy, they must feel safe and secure, and have opportunities for learning starting from birth. Ensuring these elements is defined as “nurturing care”.
Children: improving survival and well-being - World Health …
2020年9月8日 · The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2015 were developed to promote healthy lives and well-being for all children. The SDG Goal 3.2.1 is to end preventable deaths of newborns and under-5 children by 2030. There are two targets:
Promoting healthy growth and development - World Health …
To grow and develop optimally, children need to receive nurturing care. This means that they enjoy adequate nutrition and good health, feel safe and secure, and have opportunities for learning starting from birth. Their mothers too, need to be healthy prior to conception and receive quality antenatal and peripartum care to optimise their own health, and also foetal growth and …