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Who's got the power: transforming health systems for women and children 2005
Millennium Project, 2005This report, produced by the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Maternal Health and Child Health, outlines challenges in maternal and child health around the world, and considers key interventions to address these challenges, focusing on health systems.DocumentStrengthening the psychosocial well-being of youth-headed households in Rwanda: baseline findings from an intervention trial
Population Council, USA, 2005For children in Rwanda, the combined effects of the 1994 genocide and the HIV and AIDS pandemic have been devastating, resulting in one of the world’s highest percentages of orphans among children 17 years or younger.DocumentWorking to improve the reproductive and sexual health of young people: Save the Children's experiences in Bhutan, Malawi, Nepal, and Viet Nam
Save the Children Fund, 2005This report outlines the experiences of delivering an Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH) programme in Bhutan, Malawi, Nepal and Viet Nam. A participatory approach, involving young people and other stakeholders, was used to develop and implement the programme in each country.DocumentProgress for children: a report card on nutrition
United Nations Children's Fund, 2006Undernutrition contributes to the deaths of about 5.6 million children under five in the developing world each year.DocumentSocioeconomic status and health in childhood: a comment on Chen, Martin and Matthews
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006Understanding whether the gradient in children's health becomes steeper with age is an important first step in uncovering the mechanisms that connect economic and health status, and in recommending sensible interventions to protect children's health.DocumentHow does progress towards the child mortality millennium development goal affect inequalities between the poorest and least poor?: analysis of demographic and health survey data
British Medical Journal, 2005This paper, published in the British Medical Journal, examines how inequality in the under-five mortality rates of the poorest and least poor groups changes as progress is made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in 22 countries of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia.DocumentUsing global media to reach youth: the 2002 MTV Staying Alive campaign
YouthNet, Family Health International, 2006This paper, published by YouthNet, examines the effects of a 2002 media campaign aiming to increase awareness of HIV and AIDS, encourage prevention behaviour, reduce HIV-related stigma and discrimination, and to empower young people to take action. The campaign was conducted using the international television network MTV.DocumentAtlas child and adolescent mental health resources: global concerns: implications for the future
World Health Organization, 2005This document presents the findings of a WHO project on existing services and resources for adolescents who confront issues of mental health. Child and adolescent mental health is receiving heightened attention due to increasing awareness of unfortunate consequences of poor mental health among youth and the advances being made in diagnosis and treatment of these disorders.DocumentLearning from what young people say about sex, relationships and health
Safe Passages to Adulthood, 2001Conventional means of addressing the health and social issues experienced by young people have all too often been in the form of blanket prescriptions influenced by a homogenous stereo-type of the young population.DocumentChild protection: a handbook for parliamentarians
United Nations Children's Fund, 2004This handbook, published by UNICEF, examines the right of children to protection from violence, abuse, and exploitation, and looks at the role that national parliaments and their members can play in fulfilling this right.Pages