Investing in Our Future : : A Comprehensive Agenda for the Health and Well-Being of Children and Adolescents.

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Place / Publishing House:Geneva : : World Health Organization,, 2021.
Ã2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (75 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Definitions and terms
  • Introduction
  • Objective
  • Methods
  • Target audience
  • Background and rationale
  • Patterns and trends in mortality and morbidity
  • Facts and figures
  • Redesigning child and adolescent health programming
  • Health development throughout the life-course
  • Life-course approach to programming
  • Strategic shifts
  • Guiding principles
  • Translation of child rights
  • Meaningful participation
  • Family-, child- and adolescent-centred, respectful care
  • Whole-of-government, whole-of-society approach
  • The six domains of health and well-being
  • Good health
  • Adequate nutrition
  • Opportunities for learning and education
  • Security, safety and a supportive, clean environment
  • Responsive relationships and connectedness
  • Personal autonomy and resilience
  • Universal and situational interventions
  • Ecological model for delivering interventions
  • For the individual child or adolescent
  • For the family and interpersonal relationships
  • In the community
  • Organized services
  • Programmatic approach
  • Governance and enabling policy environment
  • Delivery platforms
  • Health and nutrition sector
  • Building on existing services
  • Creating new contacts and delivery platforms
  • Multisectoral collaboration
  • Education sector
  • Social sector
  • Other programmes and infrastructure required
  • Workforce
  • Accountability
  • Records
  • Programme monitoring
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Annex 1. Participants in the meeting on redesigning child and adolescent health programmes in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals, January 2019
  • Annex 2. Actions, policies, laws and regulations for the health and well-being of children and adolescents.
  • Annex 3. Current health system contacts and examples of integrated interventions for child and adolescent health and well-being (Ref. in bibliography)
  • Bibliography.