Child and adolescent health

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• WHO supports health workforce development in Tajikistan
  10-05-2012
  A three-day, capacity-building workshop for paediatricians was held on 24–26 April 2012 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Organized by WHO in cooperation with the Ministry of Health's Republican Pediatrician Center and Child Surgery, the workshop provided training in the use and adaptation of an innovative computerized tool (ICATT) developed to help countries implement the WHO/UNICEF strategy on Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI).
• Should we be worried about teenagers?
  02-05-2012
  The latest report from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, based on interviews with over 200 000 young people, is out. The study’s International Coordinator explains some of its key findings, current trends and how HBSC began. Read more …
• WHO report reveals teenagers do not get a fair deal on health
  02-05-2012
  Widespread inequalities mean that many young people in the WHO European Region and North America are not as healthy as they could be, according to a new report on the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, published by the WHO Regional Office for Europe.
• Latest Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study being launched on 2 May in Edinburgh, Scotland
  27-04-2012
  Latest Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study being launched on 2 May in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Second Series on Adolescent Health is published by The Lancet
  26-04-2012
  The Second series of reports on Adolescent health has been launched  in connection  with the  45 Session of the United Nations Commission  on Population and Development. 1.8 billion  youth  aged 10-24 represent the largest  generation of young people in  history. Reports present a conceptual framework  on the importance of adolescent health from a life-course perspective,  give insight  into the influence  of certain social determinants  on adolescent health,  indicate protective factors effective across  a range of health risk behaviours,  as well as display data from  multi-country databases for a number of selected indicators  important for major health outcomes in young people and  other issues. Each report provided  recommendations for possible  future actions.
• Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4, 5 and 6 in the WHO European Region: 2011 Update
  20-04-2012
  As called for by Regional Committee for Europe Resolution EUR/RC57/R2, this report constitutes the biennial update on the progress made towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals in the European Region. It draws on the most recent data sources available, as of July 2011, for Millennium Development Goals 4, 5 and 6 on, respectively, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, and combating HIV/AIDs, malaria and other diseases (including tuberculosis).
• De-worming campaign in Tajikistan launched
  20-04-2012
  The initial phase of Tajikistan’s first countrywide de-worming campaign began on 16 April 2012, and will continue until 27 April. Nearly 50% of children in Tajikistan have parasitic worms according to a 2011 survey.
• Adolescent health in Europe gets a new promoter
  30-03-2012
  On 20 March 2012 the first Collaborating Centre to support WHO’s work in strengthening health systems for adolescent and school health, and in improving adolescents’ access to age appropriate services was designated in Switzerland.
• State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World
  19-03-2012
  The report State of the World's Children 2012 is telling about the experience of childhood in urban world.
• Adolescent girls’ health
  07-03-2012
  Girls are more vulnerable than boys to certain health risks and conditions, such as depression and some sexually transmitted infections. WHO/Europe underlines the importance of targeted, gender-responsive policies, for International Women’s Day, 8 March.
• The series of “Young people’s health as a whole-of-society response”
  21-02-2012
  The series of “Young people’s health as a whole-of-society response” shows that gender differences and inequalities affect various aspects of illness, health and wellbeing in girls and boys in the European Region.
• WHO/Europe draws attention to child maltreatment prevention policy briefs on violence against children
  07-02-2012
  The United Nations Secretary-General’s report on violence against children has heightened awareness in Member States of the victimization of children worldwide. In this context, the WHO Regional Office for Europe has produced policy briefings on the Public health approach to preventing child maltreatment in the WHO European Region and The cycles of violence: the key facts.
• National workshop on preventing interpersonal violence, Nicosia, Cyprus, 17-18 January 2012
  07-02-2012
  A two day national workshop on the prevention of interpersonal violence was hosted by the Ministry of Health of Cyprus with technical support from the violence and injury prevention teams of the WHO Regional Office of Europe and WHO Headquarters. Multidisciplinary stakeholders attending the meeting represented not only the health sector, but also the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare.
• Register for webinar: Prevention of child maltreatment and associated impairment: an evidence-based overview
  10-01-2012
  Registration is open for this WHO webinar which will take place 19 January 2012, with presentations by Dr Harriet MacMillan, Professor, Psychiatry, Behavioural Neurosciences, Pediatrics, McMaster University, Canada and Dr Christoper Mikton, WHO headquarters, Switzerland.
• Albania Success stories in improving mother and child health
  03-01-2012