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Child Health

Child Health. By: Chelsea Assmann and Brooke Croghan. Goal: Reduce child deaths.

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Child Health

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  1. Child Health By: Chelsea Assmann and Brooke Croghan

  2. Goal: Reduce child deaths. - The goal is to reduce child deaths by 2/3 from 1995 to 2015. The child death rate for children under 5 years old is falling but not quickly enough. Many of the causes are not malnutrition, instead it is the lack of health care at birth. It is occurring mostly developing countries.

  3. Success Stories • Over thousands of newborns die from maternal and neonatal tetanus or “silent killer” each year. In the 80’s over 20,000 Vietnamese babies dead before reaching one month old. With the help of Expanded Programme on Immunization pregnant women started to be vaccinated during pregnancy. Vietnam is the ninth country to completely decreased tetanus disease in their country. They are also the first East Asian country too be able to do this. • The Reaching Every District plan continues to help out many developing countries with improving children’s survival rates. The diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccines are starting to be used nationwide. Many countries such as Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan have lowered the spread of polio by having campaigns.

  4. Organizations to Help: http://www.dhcs.ca.gov http://www.rescue.org

  5. Why is this a goal? This is a goal so we can save the lives of children, so more can reach their 5th birthday. Working with governments, and health providers we can help families learn skills, and basic health knowledge mostly in the care for newborns. What we can do is pay more attention to children’s hygiene, take note on how they are eating, and most importantly get the care they need.

  6. Problems the World is Having. • Since 1990 child mortality rates have been halved in North Africa, Eastern Asia, Western Asia, Latin America, and even the Caribbean. Sub-Saharan Africa is a part where the mortality rate has made little or no progress.

  7. Sources • http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Resources/Static/Products/Progress2010/2010_Addendum_Goal4.pdf • http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG_FS_4_EN.pdf • http://www.mdgmonitor.org/goal4.cfm

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