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Health and Nutrition
Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute
'Helping the Children in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: The Handbook'
Appropriate for relief workers who may not be child health experts and intended for use in the field during both man-made and natural disaster relief efforts. Covers the most relevant issues with hands-on guidance, including assessing problems and priorities for children, from the basic needs of food, water and shelter, to unique physical and psychosocial issues.
Pan American Health Organization
Experts emphasize challenges of IMCI strategy for healthy children. Washington, November 21, 2001 (PAHO) - The expansion of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy, its integration with other elements of the public health system and mobilization of resources to sustain its application are the main challenges facing the countries of the Americas. These were the conclusions of a group of experts who met to evaluate and expand this strategy, which has proven effective in cutting childhood deaths and illnesses.
World Health Organization
Breaking the Poverty Cycle: Investing in Early Childhood
Closing remarks: "Bringing in New Actors".
Speech given by Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of the World Health Organization in Paris at the Inter-American Development Bank Seminar, 14 March 1999.
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