decision-makers on the optimal design of policies to help reduce premature deaths and illness in children under five years of … age. To protect the health, development, and wellbeing of young children, decision-makers must identify and reduce … advance the understanding of what those risk factors are, when and how to reduce children's exposure to them, and how to …

The largest global equity gap in health, is among children, and concentrated in communicable diseases. This note …, developed by the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Children's Fund - whose aim is to reduce childhood deaths …, illnesses, and disabilities, while improving children's growth, and development. IMCI's three main components are to: improve …

disease attributed to environmental factors falls on children below five years of age, who account for about 10 percent of the … world's population. Children are especially susceptible to environmental factors that put them at risk of developing illness …