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- Children and young people’s mental health: the case for action
WHO advocates for a comprehensive response to the mental health needs of children and young people, with a focus on strengthening policies and legislation; promoting enabling environments (in homes, schools, communities, workplaces and digital spaces) and building preventive and care services
- Child growth - World Health Organization (WHO)
Child malnutrition is a major public health issue worldwide An estimated 144 million children under age 5 are stunted, 47 million are wasted and 38 3 million have overweight or obesity Around 45% of deaths among children under 5 years of age are linked to undernutrition Measuring the growth of infants and children is an important part of child health surveillance Inadequate infant growth
- Child maltreatment - World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO fact sheet on child maltreatment providing key facts and information on the scope of the problem, consequences, prevention and WHO response
- World Patient Safety Day 2025
World Patient Safety Day 17 September 2025 Every child has the right to safe, quality health care — from the very beginning Yet, newborns and young children face higher risks due to their rapid development, evolving health needs and different disease patterns They rely on adults to speak up and make decisions for them
- Child growth standards - World Health Organization (WHO)
The WHO Child Growth StandardsThis web site presents the WHO Child Growth Standards These standards were developed using data collected in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study The site presents documentation on how the physical growth curves and motor milestone windows of achievement were developed as well as application tools to support implementation of the standards
- Child mortality (under 5 years) - World Health Organization (WHO)
Child SurvivalKey facts In 2020 an estimated 5 million children under the age of 5 years died, mostly from preventable and treatable causes Approximately half of those deaths, 2 4 million, occurred among newborns (in the first 28 days of life) While the global under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) fell to 37 deaths per 1000 live births in 2020, children in sub-Saharan continued to have the highest
- Patrones de crecimiento infantil
Las tablas con los patrones de referencia de la OMS para el crecimiento (5-19 años), de 2007, se basan en un nuevo análisis de los datos de 1977 del Centro Nacional de Estadísticas de la Salud Estos patrones complementan los patrones de crecimiento infantil de la OMS (0-60 meses), publicados en abril de 2006, y se utilizan para hacer un seguimiento mundial, aunque también pueden servir
- Weight-for-length height - World Health Organization (WHO)
Home Tools and toolkits Child growth standards Standards Weight-for-length height
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