Child healthcare goals unveiled
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The government has unveiled standards for the healthcare of children and adolescents.
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Public health reforms to be piloted in deprived areas in a bid to tackle high levels of poor health.
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Muslim states should quickly tackle their deplorable public health services with millions of infants and children vulnerable to diseases such as polio and malaria, Malaysia's prime minister said on Thursday.
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SINGAPORE : The Government has announced new initiatives to help parents and families cope with the demands of having children. The Ministry for Community Development, Youth
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GENEVA  - Children must be at the forefront of efforts to prevent heart disease, health agencies said as they accused governments of neglecting the 17 million deaths from cardiovascular illness a year.
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The public is being asked to help the government come up with a 10-year plan to improve children's lives.
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Numbers don't lie &#151; or do they? When it comes to public health, figures are seldom straightforward. Last week, UNICEF announced what it described as a "major public health success": child deaths dropped to a record low of 9.7 million worldwide in 2005.
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A programme to provide basic healthcare to all 1.3bn of China's citizens is announced by officials.
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Nearly 9.7 million children die each  year before their fifth birthday from diseases from pneumonia  to malaria, but simple affordable measures could save more  lives, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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The quality of the health care provided to millions of Americans improved last year across several dozen categories, including increased immunization rates among insured children.
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The NHS has appointed its first ever champion to tackle inequalities in the health of people from ethnic minorities.
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A wide-ranging effort involving parents, schools, communities and government is needed to turn the tide of childhood obesity, the Institute of Medicine said Thursday.
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Science & environment: Objective of growing replacement organs for humans has been brought a step closer
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OPPOSITION Leader Mark Latham today unveiled a $1.6 billion childcare policy which he said would ensure all Australian children had a head start in life.
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Worldwide, it is estimated that more than 22 million children under five years old are obese or overweight, and more than 17 million of them are in developing countries.
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"This partnership could literally save lives, by coordinating investment in healthcare that is free, public and well-staffed"  LONDON  - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Wednesday a global health campaign to target aid more effectively at the basic needs of poor countries.The International Health Partnership, to be officially launched on September 5, aims to reduce child and maternal mortality and tackle diseases such as HIV/AIDS by building long-term health infrastructures in developing countries.The scheme will bring together donor countries like Britain, Germany, Canada and Norway as well as the World Bank and World Health Organisation. Rich nations would submit long-term health plans and international agencies would commit to better coordinate funding and efforts on the ground. Read more
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Muslim nations will focus on key areas of child health and vaccine production to eliminate preventable diseases, senior health officials were expected to announce Friday in Malaysia.