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Abstract Regular physical activity (PA) is an underlying factor since childhood and adolescence for having a healthy and active future for life. The aim of this stud y was to review the evidence on increasing the youth PA to develop the national program at country level. At first, the databases were...

ABSTRACT An analysis of early growth patterns in children from 54 resource-poor countries in Africa and Southeast Asia shows a rapid falloff in the height-for-age z score during the first 2 y of life and no recovery until ≥5 y of age. This finding has focused attention on the period -9 to 24 mo as a...

The Kid’s Healthy Eating Plate is a visual guide to help educate and encourage children to eat well and keep moving. At a glance, the graphic features examples of best-choice foods to inspire the selection of healthy meals and snacks, and it emphasizes physical activity as part of the equation for...

This toolkit provides a variety of resources that form a platform for strengthening policy makers, program managers and service providers' capacity to promote access to maternal, newborn and child heath care. Developed by the Peace Corps, the toolkit includes information on: pregnancy and birth...

The Health Library for Disasters (HELID) is the most complete electronic information resource on public health for emergency preparedness and response and complex emergencies. An inter-agency effort, HELID contains more than 650 full-text documents, including technical guidelines, manuals, field...

This guide aims to: better define focus areas of response for direct humanitarian programming and advocacy in acute phase of an emergency build consistency around a discrete 'package' of effective MNCH and nutrition services delivered in an acute phase of a disaster provide a clear rationale for...

Child poverty and well-being is a holistic overview of the approaches to poverty pertaining to individuals less than the age of 18. With descriptions of UN goals and perspectives of a "rights-based" approach, capability approach, and human development approach. Through an aggregate of these three...

This article discusses the deficiency of pediatric surgical care in developing countries disrupted by crisis. The authors examine the pediatric surgical care at Médecins Sans Frontières-Brussels (MSF-OCB) projects in order to highlight the current resource allocation and the barriers faced in...