CH Children and preventive health

The Children's Health Care Programme includes measures for the benefit of newborn infants, nursing and pre school children and school children up to the age of nine.

Care services for child welfare and development.

The Law on Health Care The Law on Health Insurance The Law on Social Welfare The Law on Children's Welfare.

The complete vaccination rate for children to the age of 11 months rose from 55 per cent in 2000 to 62 per cent in 2001.

UNICEF health and nutrition strategy

Staffing schools with experts in the field of mental health protection for children

enterprises Number of children in crèches and nurseries and in Mother and Child Homes Kindergartens

Children with one or both parents and who are adopted by an insured person have the right to health insurance if their parents, owing to their health condition or other reasons cannot take care of the children and support them.

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Particular attention should be paid to ensuring the rights, protection and well being of children.

This poses additional health risks to children.

279. Maternal and child health care is provided through antenatal and child welfare clinics.

Child Health

These workers provide services in child health, nutrition, family planning and treatment of minor ailments.

In 2005 it launched with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the first National Child Health Day, which enabled some 2 million children to receive vitamin A supplements and other health services.

Child survival needs a continuum of care approach that begins in pregnancy and extends through birth and childhood.

The new UNICEF supported Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health takes a comprehensive approach to maternal and child survival by helping to provide for the healthiest possible start in life.

(b) To ensure a continuum of care from pregnancy through childhood, recognizing that maternal, newborn and child health are inseparable and interdependent, and that the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals must be based on a strong commitment to the rights of women, children and adolescents

(c) Ensure access for orphans and vulnerable children to essential services, including education, health care and birth registration

States parties should ensure that all children have access to the highest attainable standard of health care and nutrition during their early years, in order to reduce infant mortality and enable children to enjoy a healthy start in life (art. In particular

The United Nations Children s Fund cooperates in providing support for mother and child health care projects.

56. UNICEF The UNICEF programme focuses on the health nutrition, education, water and sanitation sectors.

In view of the crucial importance of early childhood programmes for the sound development of children, the Committee calls on States parties to ensure that all children, especially the most vulnerable are guaranteed access to these programmes.

241. As can be seen from the above table the fight against child mortality and childhood diseases is the priority objective for paediatric health care.

The Health of Women and Children

Improving children s access to quality education, improving the provision of health care for children, and protecting vulnerable children, in particular those caught up in prostitution and working children, remain challenges for Cambodia.

(a) Interest in maternal and child health care at the highest government levels

It is also the indicator of how organized the portion of health care protection intended for women and children is.

65. In the field of health, Lebanon was undertaking initiatives through the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in order to ensure that each child had access to health services, in accordance with article 24 of the Convention.

To date, the country programme has received 185,000,000 in other resources, which have been allocated to the programme components for reproductive and child health, child development and nutrition, child environment, primary education, child protection, HIV AIDS, advocacy and communication, and planning, monitoring and evaluation.

UNICEF also restarted health services in 27 health centres and facilitated access to basic health care for 100,000 internally displaced persons.

UNICEF recognizes the centrality of integrated programmes to support a continuum of care for mothers and their children.

136. UNICEF has traditionally been dedicated to the provision of health, nutrition and education services to children and women in conflict.

There are many serious manifestations of the impact of the prolonged conflict on children, such as street children, child combatants, displaced children, unaccompanied children, and victims of atrocities, as well as the collapse of health and education services.

Child care is the responsibility of women and children consulting offices, as well as of the existing 694 specialized children consulting offices.

His Government attached great importance to the education of children, particularly girls, and to child and maternal health care.

(a) Undertaking a child impact assessment that considers humanitarian child focused exemptions and efforts to ensure the enjoyment of children s rights, including health and nutrition

The Family Health Counselling Centres, which acted as family practice centres, were an important institution for the promotion of the health of women and children including continued care as the children grew up.

On the subject of the day care centres mentioned earlier, the child care services include cleanliness, food, health care, education and recreation for the children.

Some progress has also been made in birth registration and in expanding centre based child care.

The emphasis on equity and poverty aspects is important for improving health, especially child health.

Providing preventive medical care, disease and malnutrition control, as well as providing the necessary health care for him her and for his her mother.

A major child health issue is the need to promote adolescent reproductive health awareness and practice

Discussions focused on children's health and education and on prenatal care.