UNICEF supported the CNNS primarily to contribute to addressing a knowledge gap on micronutrient deficiencies and non-communicable diseases risks in school-aged children and adolescents. The wealth of...
Climate change is raising global temperatures and increasing the frequency, intensity and duration of heatwaves. Heat stress contributes to significant negative health outcomes, particularly for infan...
This technical note reflects UNICEF’s response to the growing global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to child survival, growth and development. It identifies UNICEF’s AMR-specific and AMR-sen...
With sustained global commitment, progress on childhood stunting, overweight, wasting, exclusive breastfeeding, low birth weight, and anaemia in women of reproductive age needs to continue towards the...
The World Health Organization and global partners sought to identify existing measures of confidence in childhood vaccines, as part of a broader effort to measure the range of behavioural and social d...
There are currently no global recommendations on a parsimonious and robust set of indicators that can be measured routinely or periodically to monitor quality of hospital care for children and young a...
There were an estimated 2 million stillbirths in 2019. The importance of these deaths, both in terms of their overall number and their impact on women, families, health professionals and wider society...
The Child Functioning Module (CFM), developed by UNICEF and the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG), is intended to produce cross-nationally comparable estimates of the number and proportio...
Adequate nutrition, access to healthcare, opportunities for early learning and responsive caregiving significantly contribute towards children attaining their full human potential as recognized by Gov...