Diarrhoea morbidity rates are increasing children in developing countries average four to five debilitating bouts of diarrhoea per year, which can cause and exacerbate malnutrition and result in long term growth stunting.

Number one was asthma, number two was developmental delays, number three was 400 fold increases in rare childhood cancers in the last eight to 10, 15 years.

In 1965, 32 per cent of children aged under five suffered chronic malnutrition (subnormal growth) by 1977 this figure had fallen to 22.4 per cent, in 1986 to 16.6 per cent, and in 1995 to 15 per cent.

Similarly, 25 per cent of the children of mothers with no education exhibit subnormal growth, as compared with 8 per cent of the children of mothers with higher education.

The malnutrition rate is slightly higher among boys than girls and it increases with age as a result of the cumulative effects of subnormal growth.

Poor nutrition and a more limited access to health care and health education jeopardize the overall health of girls. This leads to stunted growth and nutritional deficiencies such as anemia.

When you're three, you better be able to write your name legibly, or else we'll consider it a developmental delay.

They look slow and heavy and fat with the life belts on, so lonesome.

We now know that giving pregnant mothers and their babies essential nutrients in the critical 1,000 day window from conception to a child s second birthday is the best investment in their health and that of society at large. The alternative is stunting, which currently afflicts an astronomical 165 million children.

Why does the bridge not progress?

It grows very slowly.

(d) Productivity gains actually achieved from investment in technology and the impact of the postponement deferral of upgrading technological systems on the long term functioning of the Organization

Many of the countries in Latin America, for instance, have experienced slow economic growth despite being fairly advanced in the transition to low fertility.

It's delayed action, that's all.

Since its inception in the 1970s, the programme has made slow and modest gains in terms of declines in the population growth rate and the total fertility rate and an increase in the family planning prevalence rate.

He has since passed away, but was mentally retarded and suffers from severe bone abnormalities.

Iodine deficiency disorders are the most widespread cause of preventable mental retardation among children.

However, actual returns are proceeding very slowly.

And then, as you grow up, the cortex develops, and inhibits these latent sexual urges towards your mother.

Things will happen. Make sure they don't happen to you.

And as a result, when those rats grow up, their pups experience retarded growth and development because they can't make enough milk to nourish their pups.

What happens to a dream deferred?

Probably a buffer underrun occurred.

The normal conditions of probation will prevail.

It means that their children's development can be compromised.

Special educational programmes for students with retarded psychic development and learning difficulties or severe speech impediments are planned for a period of 10 years for the acquisition of general primary education.

There have been instances in the past where meetings of the States Parties have been substantially delayed or called off due to the lack of quorum.

The Millennium Development Goals promise to give all children a full primary education by 2015, and A world fit for children adopted targets explicitly designed to help achieve this.

Fertility rates have declined in recent years and women are having their children at a later age, mainly because, when they enter the labour market, they are forced to put off having children and to have fewer of them.

The inevitable impact of prioritizing, however, is that some projects have had to be deferred.

Vice Ministry of Health (Ministry of Health and Sports)

(f) Work in excess of their strength or of a nature to impede or retard their normal physical development,

Nonetheless, growth and development were progressing slowly.

Mr. Fahrudin Rizvanbegovic Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports

(b) The deferment of stream option for two years makes it possible to provide the pupils with a more general and more balanced education.

The programme provided eight special education centres through which 500 slow learners were integrated into the regular education programme, 17 remedial classes which assisted 300 children with learning difficulties, and five special class sections for 20 deaf children.

which activates the alarm by way of a relay system.

The Committee was also informed that various missions find themselves with large quantities of medical assets which often arrive late in the mission area, owing to the slow procurement process.

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About 15 per cent of children suffer goitre or present signs of iodine deficiency, thus exposing a large number of children to mental retardation.57 Seventy per cent of children have vitamin A deficiencies or are borderline cases.57 Stunting (low height for age) reached 9.0 per cent and wasting (low weight for height) 2.5 per cent among Palestinian children due to poor nutrition.58

The need to develop transport and communications infrastructure is widely recognized, but joint action has been generally slow.

Individual special educational programmes for students with severe mental retardedness or other serious development disorders are envisaged for a period of 9 years.

Other spin off opportunities addressed were in health, education and energy development, disaster prevention and mitigation and the use of satellite data in support of fisheries operations.

During the 1997 1998 school year, the programme benefited 800 slow learners, 560 children with learning difficulties and 24 deaf pupils.

Staffing has proceeded slowly, but there is scope for this benchmark soon to be met.