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  80 million lives: meeting the Millennium Development Goals in child and maternal survival

  Save the Children Fund, 2003

  This report, produced by Save the Children on behalf of the Grow Up Free from Poverty Coalition, analyses the progress made towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals on infant and maternal survival. It reveals that the goal of reducing under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015 is unlikely to be met; sub-Saharan Africa is particularly off-track.
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  Children and accidents factsheet

  Child Accident Prevention Trust, UK, 2004

  This fact sheet, published by the Child Accident Prevention Trust, UK, provides brief information about the causes of child accidents and how they can be prevented. Accidents are the main cause of death for children and young people in the UK, and are also a major cause of long-term disability and ill health. Boys are approximately twice as likely as girls to have accidents.
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  Taking chances: the lifestyles and leisure risk of young people

  Child Accident Prevention Trust, UK, 2002

  This report, published by the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT), UK, describes the results of a two-year study examining how young people aged 11-14 are exposed to the risk of unintentional injury during their leisure time. It finds that over 60 per cent of young people asked said that they had been injured or had an accident at least once in the previous four weeks.
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  Impact of working time on children’s health

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2004

  This working paper examines the relationship between the intensity of children’s work in terms of weekly working hours and children’s health outcomes. It also includes an analysis of the sector of work.
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  Orphans and vulnerable children in Zambia: 2004 situation analysis

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This report is a second Situation Analysis of Zambia’s orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), since 1999. It documents progress since the last report, and emphasises the challenges that remain.
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  Social factors associated with child mental health problems in Brazil: cross sectional survey

  British Medical Journal, 2001

  This article from the British Medical Journal reports on a survey in Brazil which examined the association between child mental health problems and social factors, including poverty, family violence and parental mental illness.
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  Child and adolescent mental health policies and plans

  World Health Organization, 2005

  This guide is one module of the World Health Organization mental health policy and guidance package for countries. It outlines the social and economic context, and provides guidance on developing and implementing a child and adolescent mental health policy and plan.
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  One in two: children are the key to Africa’s future

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This report makes the case for investment in children as the key to breaking Africa’s cycle of poverty.
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  The World Health Report 2005: make every mother and child count

  World Health Organization, 2005

  The 2005 World Health Report calls for a change of focus in maternal and child health programmes, and for more attention to be given to the often overlooked problems of newborns. It also notes that increasingly, access to quality care for mothers and children is being seen as a right. The report recognises that demand for antenatal care has increased in most parts of the world.
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  The State of the World's Children 1996: campaign for child survival

  United Nations Children's Fund, 1996

  This document is part of UNICEF’s 1996 annual report “The State of The World’s Children”. The report contains an historical review (“Fifty years for children”) which traces how the children’s cause has evolved internationally over the previous fifty years, decade by decade.

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