Child and adolescent health
Facts and figures
Robust data on child and adolescent health status are scarce. WHO/Europe’s 2008 follow-up survey found that only about half the countries in the WHO European Region had a national database of relevant health information. Some databases on child and adolescent health are integrated in other registers or databases. Most countries collect morbidity and mortality data, but collecting disaggregated data is demanding and time consuming. When this work is done, however, policies can be built on good intelligence.
See also
- The Millennium Development Goals in the WHO European Region
Health systems and health of mothers and children: lessons learned - Evaluation of the implementation phase of the European strategy
Strategy implementation. Survey 2006–2008
From other WHO sites
- Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health
Final report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health - Child and adolescent health and development