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Global Health Opportunities to Child Health

The first point to make on this subject would be talking about the nutrition that this children , its important that we star with giving this kids a good nutrition so they can growth in a healthy way. The WHO (world health organitation) haves this plan for child groth and developtmen : WHO is coordinating an international effort to develop childgrowth standards that will replace the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)/WHO reference for infants and young children (age 0-5 years).
Phase 1 of the project consisted in the evaluation of current anthropometric references that brought to light important biological and technical deficiencies in the NCHS/WHO reference. This led to the development of a plan for new standards that woulddocument how children should grow in all countries rather than merely describing how they grew at a particular time and place.
Phase 2, the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study, focused on the collection of growth and related data from approximately 8 500 children in six countries (Brazil, Ghana, India, Norway, Oman and the United States of America). This phase ended in October 2003.
Phase 3 (dataanalysis and production of the proposed standards) began in 2002. At the end of Phase 3 the number of growth standards will have expanded to 12 (from the present set of three), and these will be linked to references for attained motor development milestones. Plans have been initiated for Phase 4 (development of training materials, implementation of training programmes, and worldwide disseminationof the new standards).
These standards will establish the breastfed infant as the biological norm for growth. The new anthropometric tools will provide more accurate estimates of malnutrition and permit identification of children at risk, rather than waiting to diagnose malnutrition after a static point is attained. Linking motor development to anthropometric standards will underscore theimportant message that normal physical growth is an essential but, by itself, insufficient element of normal development.
At present, 99 countries are using the NCHS/WHO growth reference. The goal is for the majority of these countries to have adopted the new standards by 2010. The shift will be fully exploited to reinforce the linking of growth assessment and growth promotion activities in support ofthe Millennium Development Goals.
Moreover, a growth standard based on a worldwide sample and recognition that environmental differences – not genetic endowment – are the principal determinants of disparities in child growth should contribute to fulfilment of accepted human rights principles, notably those stipulated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The work accomplished since 1990when the project began is the product of close collaboration between WHO and the United Nations University, UNICEF, governments and other partners (e.g., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Hundreds of scientists have contributed generously to all aspects of the project to date, and the partnership base will continue to expand in the challenging phases ahead.
If we can give them agood nutrition they will have energy to go to the school, learn, play and make friends, they will be happy kids and thats the most important thing for a good development.
Its important that we improve the education on schools, for their parents and the comunnity, if we create concieus about it they will have the help and support of their families.
7.6 million children under 5 years old died in2010. Almost 90% of these deaths are due to just six disorders, namely: neonatal problems, pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles and HIV/AIDS. In the period 1960-1990 infant mortality in the developing regions is halved, i.e. one death for every 10 children under 5 years of age.The aim is to reduce the infant mortality rate even more, or by two-thirds, for 2015.La achievement of the Millennium...