Child protection and child health: A shared future

Infant and Young Child Feeding: a Key area to Improve Child Health

  Good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. Poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. For millions of chi...

Child health: past, present and future challenges.

INTRODUCTION The most recent Health Campaign mounted by the Ministry of Health from October 16-18, focused on Integrated Maternal and Child Health. Common sense argues the case for Maternal Health and Child Health to be linked together as the two are inextricably intertwined; the successful delivery of a healthy child being dependent to a large extent on proper antenatal care and management of ...

Child abuse reporting: rethinking child protection.

Towards a public health model of child protection in Australia

Most current child protection systems in Australia are unsustainable and potentially harmful. It is time to reconsider the direction in which child protection policy is heading in this country. To this end we need to understand the historical processes that have led to the current situation, explore the potential of a public health approach to child protection, enhance the capacity to translate...

Child Protection and Child Welfare in Asia and the Pacific

Despite an overall slowing population growth, the Asia–Pacific region still contains over 64 per cent of the global population 2 and some of the most densely populated places in the world. The region is very diverse in terms of cultures, territories, religions, languages and economic development. Such diversity is also reflected in the statistics available for child protection, with birth regis...