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Child health
The leading causes of death among children include respiratory infections, diarrhoeal diseases, measles, malaria, malnutrition and newborn conditions. Many child deaths are preventable through vaccination, adequate home care, access to health care services, improved rates of breastfeeding and better nutrition.

Child Health and Development - World Health Organization (WHO)
The goal of the Child Health and Development Unit is to end preventable child deaths and promote the healthy growth and development of all children in the first decade of their life.

Nutrition and Food Safety - World Health Organization (WHO)
The Nutrition and Food Safety (NFS) Department is addressing the burden of disease from physical, chemical and microbial hazards in food and unhealthy diets, maternal and child malnutrition, overweight and obesity.

Child growth - World Health Organization (WHO)
Child malnutrition is a major public health issue worldwide. An estimated 144 million children under age 5 are stunted, 47 million are wasted and 38.3 million have overweight or obesity. Around 45% of deaths among children under 5 years of age are linked to undernutrition. Measuring the growth of infants and children is an important part of child health surveillance. Inadequate infant growth ...

Child maltreatment - World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO fact sheet on child maltreatment providing key facts and information on the scope of the problem, consequences, prevention and WHO response.

possessives - Is it "childs" or "child's" - English Language & Usage ...
"Child's" is the "possessive" for "child". "All of your child's homework is complete" means that the homework belonging to your child is complete. And note that if you have more than one child, the plural is "children", not "childs", and the sentence would be "All of your children's homework is complete."

Child mortality (under 5 years) - World Health Organization (WHO)
Key facts In 2020 an estimated 5 million children under the age of 5 years died, mostly from preventable and treatable causes. Approximately half of those deaths, 2.4 million, occurred among newborns (in the first 28 days of life). While the global under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) fell to 37 deaths per 1000 live births in 2020, children in sub-Saharan continued to have the highest rates of ...

Measles - United States of America
In February 2025, an unvaccinated school-aged child who lived in the Texas outbreak area died of measles. This was the first death in the United States related to measles in a decade.

儿童生长标准 - World Health Organization (WHO)
世卫组织2006年儿童生长标准 （0-5岁）描述在最佳环境条件下，包括遵从世卫组织关于母乳喂养的建议，儿童从出生到5岁的正常生长情况。这些标准适用于世界各地的所有儿童，无论其种族、社会经济状况和喂养类型如何。

etymology - When did "kid" start to mean "child"? - English Language ...
My dear child/Child, come here/He is but a child! But I don't see kid. In fact, I didn't see kid even in the contemporary work A Series of Unfortunate Events when I was reading it (unless I missed it). Children was still used there. So, my question is: When did "kid" become used to mean "child"? Is it less formal to use "kid" than "child"?