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Childhood obesity undermines the physical, social and psychological well-being of children and is a known risk factor for adult obesity and noncommunicable diseases. There is an urgent need to act now to improve the health of this generation and the next. The Commission recognizes that the scope of potential policy recommendations to address childhood obesity is broad and contains a number of novel elements. …
This resource is intended for harm reduction service providers with limited experience of working with children and young people who inject drugs. …
The aim of this manual is to focus health education in schools towards nutrition disorders, infections and diseases that affect school-age children and community members living in and around Kakuma Refugee camp today. The manual forms part of an integrated approach to school health, and provides education and information around a set of interventions which seek to incorporate sanitation, health and nutrition into a school based platform to bring about improvements to child health in the camp. …
The Whole School Approach to Healthy Lifestyle: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Policy aims to: - Give high priority to healthy eating and physical activity through holistic education. - Strengthen the necessary framework and support an enabling school environment to help the whole school community to adopt healthier patterns of living by encouraging physical activity, promoting healthy foods and limiting the availability of products high in salt, sugar and fats. …
As member states of the United Nations take stock of the drug control system, a number of debates have emerged among governments about how to balance international drug laws with human rights, public health, alternatives to incarceration, and experimentation with regulation. This series intends to provide a primer on why governments must not turn a blind eye to pressing human rights and public health impacts of current drug policies.
The purpose of this paper is to provide an up-to-date literature review on school feeding and the potential impact on nutrition, including school age children, pre-school and adolescent girls. The review is aimed at providing evidence-based guidance to national governments on school feeding and nutrition from a lifecycle approach. The review seeks to consolidate the existing evidence, analyse what this evidence translates into in terms of programming, and understand the potential of improving nutrition through school feeding programmes globally. …
This National Child and Adolescent Health Policy will cover children and adolescents ranging from 0-18 years of age. This document will provide the framework for the planning, management, delivery, monitoring, and evaluation of services targeted at improving and maintaining child and adolescent health for all these specific age groups in Samoa. …
This paper engages in the debate on the effects of children’s health on their education in later life stages in low- and middle-income countries. Using three rounds from the rich panel data of the Young Lives study in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam, it endorses a multidimensional approach to health (and poverty in general). …
OBJECTIVE: An analysis undertaken jointly in 2009 by the UN World Food Programme, The Partnership for Child Development and the World Bank was published as Rethinking School Feeding to provide guidance on how to develop and implement effective school feeding programmes as a productive safety net and as part of the efforts to achieve Education for All. The present paper reflects on how understanding of school feeding has changed since that analysis. DESIGN: Data on school feeding programme outcomes were collected through a literature review. …
This qualitative study was conducted in four Gauteng public primary schools to assess the utilisation of psychological support services. Individual and focus group interviews were conducted with various stakeholders. The results indicated an underutilisation of Psychological Support Services attributed to lack of staff within the support services, an abundance of paperwork, staff turnover and unavailability, and inefficient response time to requests. …
This Policy was developed to ensure that implementation of child rights which are universally recognised and strengthening the quality and effectiveness of basic education. The policy also refeclts two important considerations in educational development in Cambodia including assuring equity of education and attracting participation from all institututions, agencies and individuals jointly to support the program. …
This brochure is designed to assist adults teaching children aged 3–10 years about the principles of friendship and mutual understanding. The brochure includes clear explanations designed to foster children’s understanding of ethical and moral norms. It also includes a series of exercises that will help children strengthen their understanding of how to act in certain situations while allowing them to assess their own level of tolerance and understanding.
The purpose of this manual is to guide Save the Children staff and its implementing partners in Malawi on how to implement a SHN program in primary schools at district level. The guidance comes from Save the Children's program experience in Mangochi district and is mainly aimed at helping staff involved with the new SHN program in Zomba. In particular, the target audience for this manual is the SHN program manager (at the Save the Children national office) and SHN program officers and assistants at both field and national levels. …
Esta publicación está dirigida a educadores y entrega información sobre las diferentes formas de violencia a las que están expuestos niños y adolescentes, apuntando a tomar acciones prácticas de respuesta a estas situaciones. Se basa en la noción que el conocimiento y el diálogo fortalecerá como grupo social capaz de combatir la violencia con cuidado y protección integrales. En el primer capítulo, se muestra una breve retrospectiva sobre los riesgos y vulnerabilidades que enfrentan niños y adolescentes. …
Marco general para implementación de la Estrategia Nacional para la Infancia y Adolescencia en Uruguay. Recoge propuestas de diversos actores de la sociedad y el Estado. Analiza la sustentabilidad demográfica, social y democráctica desde el punto de vista de la niñez y adolescencia uruguaya. Se le suman análisis de gasto público, políticas de salud, educación yáprotección de la niños y adolescentes.
