This Topic Guide has been compiled to provide an overview of undernutrition in the context of development. The focus of the Guide is on undernutrition, defined as the outcome of insufficient (quantity and quality) of food intake (hunger) and repeated infectious diseases. Undernutrition includes bein...g underweight for one’s age, too short for one’s age (stunted), underweight for one’s height (wasted), and deficient in vitamins and minerals (micronutrient malnutrition). This review does not focus on the other component of malnutrition, which is overnutrition
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A review of policy and practice; zero Hunger Phase 1
A Technical Paper. Final Report
Resumen para Equipos de Salud Edición 2021-2022
Las presentes recomendaciones se encuentran dirigidas a los miembros del equipo de salud que asisten niñas, niños y adolescentes (NNyA) que viven con VIH. También se dirigen a los responsables jurisdiccionales que participan en el proceso de gesti...ón de acceso a tratamientos antiretrovirales recomendados. El objetivo es brindar directrices para optimizar el cuidado y tratamiento antiretroviral de NNyA, con opciones más seguras y eficaces, basadas en la mejor evidencia disponible.
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This Toolkit is intended to guide humanitarian programme managers and healthcare providers to ensure that sexual and reproductive health interventions put into place both during and after a crisis are responsive to the unique needs of adolescents.
«Содействие процветанию подростков» (СПП) -
совместная инициатива ВОЗ/ЮНИСЕФ, направленная
на укрепление стратегий и мероприятий по
укреплению психического здо...овья подростков,
предупреждению нарушений психического здоровья, а
также профилактике самоповреждения и других форм
рискованного поведения среди подростков. В основе
инициативы лежит концепция, в рамках которой все
подростки, их опекуны, гражданское общество и
местные сообщества объединят усилия с государством
для совместного принятия мер по охране и
укреплению психического здоровья подростков.
Это предполагает необходимость систематического
осуществления и мониторинга основанных на
принципах науки и прав человека стратегий по
укреплению психического здоровья и принятия
мер по профилактике и лечению среди подростков
нарушений психического здоровья и расстройств,
связанных с употреблением психоактивных веществ,
в интересах повышения уровня их благополучия
в долгосрочной перспективе. Эти действия будут
способствовать выполнению задачи
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The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is committed to ensuring the effective implementation of this strategy, which will contribute to the overall wellbeing and health of all adolescent boys and girls of Bangladesh
Guía detallada para el diseño e implementación de métodos de encuestas de conocimientos, actitudes y
prácticas para programas de protección de la infancia
Children with disabilities are particularly vulnerable in humanitarian settings, yet they are often not able to access the services and protection they need. While multiple factors create these barriers, a major cause is how data about children with disabilities is collected and mapped. Data collect...ion processes often exclude or underrepresent the views of children with disabilities and thier caretakers. When the experiences of children with disabilities and their caretakers are not defined and collected, they become excluded from mainstreamed protective services, which are meant to serve all children. Children with disabilities also do not get the specialised interventions they need.
This guidance note explores how to use qualitative methods to create more robust assessment processes to ensure more effective programming and services for children with disabilities. This note provides promising practices for engaging with children with disabilities and includes sample tools that can be tailored to fit the needs of a particular assessment process. The note also explores the importance of thoughtful cross-sectoral responses so that children with disabilities, and their families, are carefully considered in areas like water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), education, health, and nutrition, and therefore receive the holistic support they need and deserve.
This note is intended for a broad audience of relevant child protection actors, including practitioners, coordination groups, researchers, and donors. The information is not limited to one type of humanitarian setting, geographic region, or culture. As a result, the practices and guidance should be adapted to each specific context, ideally in partnership with well-informed local actors, such as representatives from local organisations for persons with disabilities.
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