Children’s House: Health Floor

• Links to Child Health

  Resources sponsored by the Division of Child Health and Development,

  World Health Organization.

• John and Catherine

  MacArthur Foundation In 1995 the Health Program’s grantmaking focused

  on three areas of mental health and development: generating new knowledge,

  particularly in the areas of middle childhood and developmental psychopathology;

  enhancing the practice of clinical psychiatry; and improving public policy

  approaches to mental health concerns and juvenile justice. By concentrating

  on creating new knowledge, improving clinical and professional practice,

  and promoting the use of scientific knowledge to improve decision making

  in law and policy, the Foundation hopes to contribute to the health and

  well-being of all individuals. A fundamental assumption of the Health Program

  is that it is in society’s best interest to promote the mental health of

  its citizens.

• Children’s Environmental Health Network 

  The Network is a national multi-disciplinary and multicultural project

  dedicated topediatric environmental health. Our mission is to promote a

  healthy environment and to protect the fetus and the child from environmental

  hazards. Our areas of concentration are education, research, and policy.

• American Academy of

  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Facts for Families – provides 46

  fact sheets in French, Spanish and English on topics such as the adopted

  child, children and AIDS, helping children after a disaster, children of

  parents with a mental illness (United States)

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

  – a national agency for health and statistics information, the site includes

  full text of two comprehensive national reports on the state of children’s

  health and welfare and government services and policies

• Global Childnet

  – a Canadian based organisation offering a range of child health related

  information services including an online copy of the journal Global Child

  Health News and Review, bibliographical

  and organizations databases, transcripts from the Second Child Health

  2000 Congress, and links to global information resources relating to the

  welfare of children (Canada)

• International

  Child Health Nursing Alliance

• The International Child Health Nursing Alliance is a recently established

  network of nurses and associated health professionals, connected by the

  Internet, who care for children and their families around the world. The

  ICHNA was newly formed at the Child Health 2000 Congress and Exposition

  in Vancouver, British Columbia in May-June 1995 as an associated organization

  of pediatric nurses and child health professionals allied to Global Child

  Health Society . At that time, a group of child health nursing leaders

  from around the world developed a report with organizational goals to form

  an alliance of individuals and groups to foster a child-friendly world

  and improve the health and happiness of children.

• World

  Summit for Children 1990

• The World Declaration on the Survival, Protection, and Development

  of Children, as Agreed to at the World Summit for Children on 30 September

  1990

• Infant,

  Young Child and Maternal Nutrition … – Publications

• Infant and young-child feeding practices are often the immediate cause

  of poor nutrition among a larger proportion of poor children in nearly

  all parts of the world. WHO’s efforts to bring together the major strands

  of necessary action to improve these infant and young child feeding practices

  is documented inInfant and Young-Child Feeding: A Global Approach and Plan

  of Action.

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