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Second Edition
Good Policy and Practice in HIV & AIDS and Education
Practical Guidance for collaborative interventions
Children in Kabwe are especially at risk because they are more likely to ingest lead dust when playing in the soil, their brains and bodies are still developing, and they absorb four to five times as much lead as adults. The consequences for children who are exposed to high levels of lead and are no...t treated include reading and learning barriers or disabilities; behavioral problems; impaired growth; anemia; brain, liver, kidney, nerve, and stomach damage; coma and convulsions; and death. After prolonged exposure, the effects are irreversible. Lead also increases the risk of miscarriage and can be transmitted through both the placenta and breastmilk.
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Health Policy Plan (2017) 32 (5): 603-612; 10 pp. 318 kB
retard mental, est définie comme un arrêt du développement mental ou un développement mental
incomplet, caractérisé essentiellement par une insuffisance des facultés qui déterminent
le niveau global d’intelligence, c’est-à-dire les fonctions cognitives, le langage, la motricité
et l...es performances sociales (Organisation Mondiale de la Santé, OMS, 1992).
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Developmental disorders
Chapter C.5
This report presents the most current data on four specific forms of violence – violent discipline and exposure to domestic abuse during early childhood; violence at school; violent deaths among adolescents; and sexual violence in childhood and adolescence. The statistics reveal that children expe...rience violence across all stages of childhood, in diverse settings, and often at the hands of the trusted individuals with whom they interact daily. The report concludes with specific national actions and strategies that UNICEF has embraced to prevent and respond to violence against children.
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Introduction
Capter A.1
Ethics and international child and adolescent psychiatry
SIGN 143. A national clinical guideline
Published May 2015, Revised 2018