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J Sch Health, 1969
This is a summary of a statement by an ad hoc committee of the American Thoracic Society.
Descriptors: Children, Communicable Diseases, Disease Control, Drug Therapy
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1985
A hearing was held to update information on progress toward immunizing the world's children against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, measles, and tuberculosis. Immunization programs are regarded as essential in the effort to break the infection-malnutrition cycle in children in developing nations. Witnesses at the hearing included…
Descriptors: Children, Communicable Diseases, Developing Nations, Disease Control
Grant, James P. – 1987
This report maintains that it is just as unacceptable to allow millions of children to die each year from needless infection and malnutrition as it is to let them die in sudden emergencies of drought and famine. The world now has the means to attack childhood malnutrition and disease on a massive scale and at an affordable cost. Four million…
Descriptors: Children, Community Action, Demography, Developing Nations
United Nations Children's Fund, New York, NY. United States Committee. – 1987
The goal of the Universal Child Immunization Program, adopted by the World Health Organization in 1977, is to inoculate by 1990, every child in the world against measles, tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and polio. By 1987, nearly 80 countries had undertaken or were planning immunization programs. These diseases, combined with…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Children, Class Activities
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. – 1995
The wars that began in 1991 in the countries of the former Yugoslavia caused widespread child suffering. This workshop report presents the findings from the Workshop on the Impact of War on Child Health held for doctors from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia. The workshop's goal was to address the common interest in the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Health, Child Welfare, Children
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1988
The challenges to Congress posed by the threat of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) to children are to support the development of more humane and cost-effective treatment and care, and to stop the spread of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The rate of reported HIV infection and cases of AIDS among children and youth is increasing.…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Children, Communicable Diseases
Annan, Kofi A. – 2001
This abridged version of the Secretary-General's report to the United Nations General Assembly's Special Session on Children details the achievements of the 1990 World Summit for Children. Nearly 150 countries provided national progress reports of their implementation of goals set forth in the Summit and the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Change Strategies, Child Health, Child Welfare
