WHO > Health topics > Child health

Child health

Child

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

Child health fact file
Features: child and adolescent health

Features: reproductive, maternal and child health

RELATED TOPICS

Child injuries and violence
WHO Child Growth Standards
Paediatric HIV and treatment
Immunization: six common misconceptions
Mental health: child and adolescent
Healthy Environments for Children Alliance
Ultraviolet radiation: protecting children
School health and youth health promotion
Children's environmental health

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