Globally, the child health focus has been on reducing under‐5‐year mortality, with large
populations in low‐resource regions prioritised. Children in older age groups, particularly in …

Introduction: There is minimal information available that describes the health of children of
primary school age (5-12 years) living in the Pacific. Current tools that exist for measurement …

Aim To enable improvements in global child health, the focus must move beyond child
survival to child wellbeing. In the Pacific Islands, the wellbeing of children has received little …

Kiribati is among the first few countries in the world to have undertaken a national census of
children's early health and development. This report presents data collected for 7,194 …

Aims: To describe the developmental profile of Pacific children living in New Zealand at two
years of age in personal/social, language, cognitive, fine motor, and gross motor domains …

The under-five age group is a crucial time for development because children's quick mental,
physical, and socio-emotional aspects serve as the" building blocks" for their future …

Learning Objectives After reading this chapter and answering the discussion questions that
follow, you should be able to Identify and discuss the environmental, social, and political …

Many published articles and policies describe what should be state of the art in global child
health, and there are dozens of large initiatives aimed at implementing these policies. We …

This report of the Canadian Institute of Child Health (CICH) is the third to document
indicators of the health and well-being of children and youth in Canada. The report is …

Adolescents, having ceaseless energy, ideas, enthusiasm, ambition and potential, are our
important assets and resources; they are our future. This presentation will review the …