Address by Mr. James P. Grant, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) upon Receipt of the E. H. Christopherson Lectureship Award on International Child Health.

Autor/in	Grant, James P.
Institution	United Nations Children's Fund, New York, NY.
Titel	Address by Mr. James P. Grant, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) upon Receipt of the E. H. Christopherson Lectureship Award on International Child Health.
Quelle	(1990), (12 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Child Health; Childhood Needs; Community Involvement; Developed Nations; Developing Nations; Information Dissemination; Intervention; Primary Health Care; Professional Associations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Childhood; needs; Kindheit; Bedürfnis; Developed countries; Industriestaat; Industrieland; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Informationsverbreitung; Gesundheitsvorsorge
Abstract	The unmet health needs of children, both globally and in the United States, have recently been extensively publicized in the media. Such publicity leads to the question: What can be done about these disturbing conditions? An answer can be seen in the ways in which vast proportions of the world's population, constrained by meager means, few facilities, and a clearly inadequate infrastructure, used what resources they had to make dramatic progress for their children in the 1980s. They empowered people with basic health knowledge and technologies by using every available means: radio, television, the press, teachers and their schools, priests and imams at the village level, commercial channels, and mass participation in health services at the community level. Low-cost measures that have produced major advances in child health include immunization, control of diarrhoeal diseases, breast-feeding of infants, and the practice of monitoring and keeping records of children's growth. The American Academy of Pediatrics can extend the benefits of members' knowledge and skills to unserved children by adhering to the principles guiding primary health care, drawing lessons from industrialized and developing countries, and exercising leadership in child health issues. A list of goals for child and maternal health, education, and development is appended. (RH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC