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Documents on child health

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• Pocket book of hospital care for children (2013): Second edition
  This is the second edition of the Pocket Book for hospital care for children. It is for use by doctors, nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first level referral hospitals.

2013

• Ending preventable child deaths from pneumonia and diarrhoea by 2025
  The integrated Global Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD)
• Pocket book of hospital care for children
  Guidelines for the management of common childhood illnesses: Second Edition
• Preconception care to reduce maternal and childhood mortality and morbidity
  Meeting report and packages of interventions: WHO HQ, February 2012

2012

• An equity-focused strategy to improve access to essential treatment services for children
• Care for child development: improving the care for young children
• Developmental difficulties in early childhood: prevention, early identification, assessment and intervention in low- and middle-income countries: a review
• Levels and trends in child mortality
• Recommendations for management of common childhood conditions
  Evidence for technical update of pocket book recommendations
• Saving mother's and children's lives
  Video

2011

• Guidelines on optimal feeding of low birth-weight infants in low- and middle-income countries
• Integrated management of childhood illness: caring for newborns and children in the community
• Levels and trends in child mortality
• Manual on paediatric HIV care and treatment for district hospitals

2010

• CAH progress report highlights 2009
• Countdown to 2015: taking stock of maternal, newborn & child survival
  Decade Report (2000-2010)
• Facts for life
  Fourth edition
• Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices – part II: measurement
• Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices – part III: country profiles
• Packages of interventions
  Family planning, safe abortion care, maternal, newborn and child health
• PMTCT strategic vision 2010–2015
  Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals
• WHO recommendations on the management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in HIV-infected infants and children

2009

• CAH progress report highlights 2008
• Development of a Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (GAPP)
  Report of an informal consultation, Chavannes de Bogis, Switzerland, 25-27 February 2008
• Diarrhoea: why children are still dying and what can be done
• Effectiveness of shortened course (≤ 3 days) of antibiotics for treatment of acute otitis media in children
  A systematic review of randomized controlled efficacy trials
• Home visits for the newborn child: a strategy to improve survival
  WHO/UNICEF Joint Statement
• Identifying priorities for child health research to achieve millennium development goal 4
  Consultation proceedings, Geneva, 26–27 March 2009
• Infant and young child feeding - tools and materials
• Infant and young child feeding: Model Chapter for textbooks for medical students and allied health professionals
• Integrated Management of Childhood Illness computerized training tool
• Managing programmes to improve child health
  Introduction, planning implementation, managing implementation, workbook, facilitator guide
• Primary Child Care: A manual for health workers
• WHO child growth standards and the identification of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children
  A Joint Statement by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund

2008

• A systematic review of the effectiveness of shortening Integrated Management of Childhood Illness guidelines training
  Final report
• Child and adolescent health and development: progress report 2006-2007
• Complementary feeding counselling
  A training course
• Countdown to 2015: tracking progress in maternal, newborn & child survival
  The 2008 report
• Global action plan for the prevention and control of pneumonia (GAPP): Report of an informal consultation
  Informal consultation at La Mainaz, Gex, France, 5–7 March 2007
• IMCI chart booklet - standard
• Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices – part I: definition
• Introducing zinc in a diarrhoeal control programme
  Guide to conducting formative research
• Manual for the health care of children in humanitarian emergencies
• Report of a technical consultation on IMCI training approaches and pre service IMCI
  Geneva, Switzerland, 19-23 November, 2007
• Strengthening action to improve feeding of infants and young children 6-23 months of age in nutrition and child health programmes
  Report of proceedings, Geneva, 6-9 October 2008

2007

• A financial road map to scaling up essential child health interventions in 75 countries
• A research agenda for childhood tuberculosis
  Improving the management of childhood tuberculosis within national tuberculosis programmes: research priorities based on a literature review
• CAH progress report 2006
• Early child development: a powerful equalizer
• Indoor air pollution and lower respiratory tract infections in children
  Report of a symposium held at the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, Paris, 4 September 2006, presenting preliminary results of a randomized intervention trial in Guatemala and a workshop discussing the implication for policy, advocacy and future research
• Indoor air pollution from solid fuels and risk of low birth weight and stillbirth
  Report from a symposium held at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), September 2005, Johannesburg
• Joint statement on the community-based management of severe acute malnutrition
• Planning guide for national implementation of the Global strategy for infant and young child feeding
• Production of zinc tablets and zinc oral solutions
  Guidelines for programme managers and pharmaceutical manufacturers
• Scaling up child survival interventions in Cambodia
  The cost of national programme resource needs: final report, 19 June 2007
• The Lancet child development in developing countries series

2006

• CAH progress report 2004-2005
• Responsive parenting: interventions and outcomes
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2006
• The role of the health sector in strengthening systems to support children’s healthy development in communities affected by HIV/AIDS: A review

2005

• Pocket book of hospital care for children
  Guidelines for the management of common illnesses with limited resources
• Psychosocial support for children and adolescents
• The treatment of diarrhoea
  A manual for physicians and other senior health workers

2004

• A review of the technical basis for the control of conditions associated with GAS infections
• A simple solution
  TIME; October 16, 2006, pp40-47
• CAH progress report 2002-2003
• Call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding in the current Asian emergency, and caution about unnecessary use of milk products
  WHO, UNICEF, ICRC, IFRC statement
• CHERG abstraction exercise
• CHERG estimates of the burden of malaria morbidity in Africa in children under the age of five years
• CHERG estimates of the burden of mortality directly attributable to malaria for children under 5 years of age in Africa for the year 2000
• Child health in the community - "Community IMCI"
  Briefing package for facilitators
• Clinical management of acute diarrhoea
  WHO/Unicef joint statement
• Consultation on child health in complex emergencies
  Meeting report
• Dengue, dengue haemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome in the context of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
• Diarrhoea treatment guidelines including new recommendations for the use of ORS and zinc supplementation for clinic-based healthcare workers
• Effective teaching
  A guide for educating healthcare providers
• Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) course
• Epidemiology and management of common skin diseases in children in developing countries
• Ethambutol efficacy and toxicity
  Literature review and recommendations for daily and intermittent dosage in children
• Family and community practices that promote child survival, growth and development
  A review of the evidence
• Group A streptococcal vaccine development: current status and issues of relevance to less developed countries
• Guidance for National Tuberculosis Programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children
• Guidelines for the control of shigellosis, including epidemics due to Shigella dysenteriae type 1
• Guiding principles for feeding non-breastfed children 6-24 months of age
• How to address psychosocial reactions to catastrophe
• Implementing the new recommendations on the clinical management of diarrhoea
  Guidelines for policy makers and programme managers
• Indoor air pollution and child health in Pakistan
  Report of a seminar held at the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, 29 September 2005
• Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling
  An Integrated Course
• Informal consultation on clinical use of oxygen
• Iron supplementation of young children in regions where malaria transmission is intense and infectious disease highly prevalent
  WHO statement
• Management of pneumonia in community settings
  WHO/UNICEF Joint Statement
• Management of sick children by community health workers
  Intervention models and programme examples
• Mental health and psychosocial well–being among children in severe food shortage situations
• Methodology and assumptions used to estimate the cost of scaling up selected child health interventions
  Technical working document
• Model IMCI handbook: Integrated management of childhood illness
• Oral Rehydration Salts
  Production of the new ORS
• Pneumonia: the forgotten killer of children
• Serious childhood problems in countries with limited resources
  Background book on Management of the child with a serious infection or severe malnutrition
• Situation analysis of household energy use and indoor air pollution in Pakistan
• TB/HIV: A clinical manual
• Technical updates of the guidelines on the IMCI
  Evidence and recommendations for further adaptations
• The current evidence for the burden of group A streptococcal diseases
• The importance of caregiver-child interactions for the survival and healthy development of young children
  A review
• Urinary tract infections in infants and children in developing countries in the context of IMCI
• WHO, UNICEF, and SCN informal consultation on community-based management of severe malnutrition in children
  SCN Nutrition Policy Paper No. 21

2003

• Building the evidence base on the provision of health care to children in complex emergencies: Report of the working group
• Complementary feeding: report of the global consultation, and summary of guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child
• Discussion paper 146: moving forward with complementary feeding
  Indicators and research priorities
• Global strategy for infant and young child feeding
• Guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child
• Health facility survey
  Tool to evaluate the quality of care delivered to sick children attending outpatient facilities
• Special supplement of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin based on a WHO expert consultation on complementary feeding
• Strategic directions for improving the health and development of children and adolescents
• Surgical care at the district hospital
• The analytic review of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy
  Final report
• The Lancet Child survival series

2002

• A healthy start in life
  Report on the global consultation on child and adolescent dealth and development
• Better health for poor children
  A special report
• Child health research: A foundation for improving child health
• Evidence base for the community management of pneumonia
• IMCI adaptation guide
  A guide to identifying necessary adaptations of clinical policies and guidelines, and to adapting the charts and modules for the WHO/UNICEF course
• Improving child health in the community
• Report of informal technical meeting to review and develop indicators for complementary feeding
  3-5 December 2002, Washington, D.C.

2001

• CAH progress report 2000-2001
• Cough and cold remedies for the treatment of acute respiratory infections in young children
• IMCI care for development
  For the healthy growth and development of children
• IMCI model chapter for textbooks
• IMCI planning, implementing and evaluating pre-service training
• IMCI reference library of selected materials
• IMCI technical seminars
• The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding: a systematic review

1990-1999

• A critical link: Interventions for physical growth and psychological development
• Breastfeeding and maternal tuberculosis
• Bronchodilators and other medications for the treatment of wheeze-associated illnesses in young children
• Guidelines for follow-up after training in the WHO/UNICEF course on IMCI for first-level health workers
• Hepatitis B and breastfeeding
• IMCI in-service training
  Set of training modules, facilitator's guides and course director's guide
• IMCI information package
• IMCI planning guide
  Gaining experience with the IMCI strategy in a country
• Improving child health IMCI
  The integrated approach
• Improving family and community practices
  A component of the IMCI strategy
• Management of the child with a serious infection or severe malnutrition
  Guidelines for care at the first-referral level in developing countries
• Oxygen therapy for acute respiratory infections in young children in developing countries
• Relactation: review of experience and recommendations for practice
• Technical bases for the WHO recommendations on the management of pneumonia in children at first-level health facilities