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AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. Global strategies
  3. Treating childhood diseases

Treating childhood diseases

  • Treating health disabilities of children
  • Correcting childhood health disorders

Context

Common serious diseases of young children – diarrhoeal disease, acute respiratory infection, measles, malaria and acute malnutrition – account for nearly 7 million child deaths annually.

Broader

Reducing child mortality
Presentable
Financing essential clinical health services
Presentable
Caring for children's health
Presentable
Treating diseases
Yet to rate

Narrower

Reducing vulnerability of women and children to HIV infection
Yet to rate
Providing access to treatment for acute respiratory infections
Yet to rate

Facilitated by

Vaccinating for illness prevention
Excellent
Preventing child exposure to environmental hazards
Presentable
Studying children's diseases
Yet to rate

Problem

Malaria
Excellent
Measles
Presentable
Inflammatory infections of the respiratory organs
Presentable
Diarrhoea in children
Presentable
Children's diseases
Presentable
Child malnutrition
Unpresentable

Value

Health
Yet to rate
Disorder
Yet to rate
Disease
Yet to rate
Disability
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-being

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
  • Medicine » Pathology
  • Society » Infants
  • Health care » Health
  • Health care » Handicapped
    • Content quality
    Yet to rate
     Yet to rate
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    J1498
    DOCID
    12014980
    D7NID
    209621
    Last update
    Nov 21, 2022