Importance Evidence on the relative importance of various factors associated with child
anthropometric failures (ie, stunting, underweight, and wasting) and their heterogeneity …

Worldwide challenges to child health and wellbeing are rapidly becoming existential threats
to children and childhood. Inequities, armed conflict and violence, nuclear proliferation …

Child stunting prevalence is primarily used as an indicator of impeded physical growth due
to undernutrition and infections, which also increases the risk of mortality, morbidity and …

Global challenges to children's health are rooted in social and environmental determinants.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) articulates the rights required to …

Background Oral rehydration solution (ORS) is a form of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) for
diarrhoea that has the potential to drastically reduce child mortality; yet, according to …

Background As under-5 mortality rates declined all over the world, the relative distribution of
under-5 deaths during different periods of life changed. To provide information for …

Objectives This paper presents detailed analysis of the global and regional burden of
chronic respiratory disease arising from occupational airborne exposures, as estimated in …

Background Unvaccinated children may live in households with limited access to other
primary health care (PHC) services, and routine vaccination services may provide the …

Studies of inequalities in child health have given limited attention to household structure and
headship. The few existing reports on child outcomes in male and female-headed …

There has been no systematic comparison of how the three most common measures to
quantify household SES—income, consumption, and asset indices—could impact the …