Health topics
Child health
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
Multimedia
WHO programme and activities
Child health in WHO regions
Technical information
Publications
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Pocket book of hospital care for children: Second edition
Guidelines for the management of common childhood illnesses: Second edition - Recommendations for management of common childhood conditions
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- Child injuries and violence
- Child Growth Standards
- Children's environmental health
- Clinical trials in children
- Immunization: six common misconceptions
- Healthy Environments for Children Alliance
- Medicines: for children
- Mental health: child and adolescent
- Paediatric HIV and treatment
- School health and youth health promotion
- Ultraviolet radiation: protecting children