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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2020
Childhood is an important time for healthy development and learning, and for establishing the foundation blocks of future wellbeing, but it is also a time of vulnerability. While a positive start in life helps children to reach their full potential, a poor start increases the chances of adverse outcomes for the individual, society and possibly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Family (Sociological Unit), Child Health
Cuevas-Ruiz, Pilar; Borra, Cristina; Sevilla, Almudena – Centre for Economic Performance, 2023
We provide the first causal evidence of the returns to maternal educational curricula on offspring's health at birth. Educational programs that aim to deliver more general knowledge may potentially improve women's earning potential and maternal prenatal investment by increasing the portability of skills across occupations and improving women's…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Health, Neonates, Mothers
Timar, Eszter; Gromada, Anna; Rees, Gwyther; Carraro, Alessandro – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how the 43 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and/or the European Union (EU) countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Do children have clean water to drink? Do they have good-quality air to breathe? Are their homes free of lead and mould? How many…
Descriptors: Children, Child Welfare, Well Being, Environmental Influences
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2019
Childhood is an important time for healthy development, learning, and establishing the foundations for future wellbeing. Most Australian children are healthy, safe and doing well. However, childhood is also a time of vulnerability and a child's outcomes can vary depending on where they live and their family's circumstances. This brief brings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Family (Sociological Unit), Child Health
Gromada, Anna; Rees, Gwyther; Chzhen, Yekaterina – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2020
A new look at children from the world's richest countries offers a mixed picture of their health, skills and happiness. For far too many, issues such as poverty, exclusion and pollution threaten their mental well-being, physical health and opportunities to develop skills. Even countries with good social, economic and environmental conditions are a…
Descriptors: Child Health, Well Being, Socioeconomic Status, Social Influences
UNICEF, 2018
This is the first in a planned series of United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reports tracking progress on the child-related indicators in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report highlights, through a data lens, the enormous task ahead for countries in meeting the 2030 Agenda for children. Through the development of projections to…
Descriptors: Children, Sustainable Development, International Programs, Foreign Countries
Watkins, Kevin – UNICEF, 2016
Every child has the right to health, education and protection, and every society has a stake in expanding children's opportunities in life. Yet, around the world, millions of children are denied a fair chance for no reason other than the country, gender or circumstances into which they are born. The "State of the World's Children 2016"…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Access to Education, Equal Education, Disadvantaged
Kosher, Hanita, Ed. – Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2015
This document, based on the statistical yearbook, "Children in Israel 2014," presents data on the population of young children in Israel. The document presents a current picture of the well-being of young children in Israel intended to assist policy-makers and practitioners to understand the situation of this group of children and to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Well Being, Age Differences
Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority, 2016
This occasional paper is the first in a series on the National Quality Framework (NQF). This paper offers detailed insights into education and care service quality ratings for Quality Area 1 -- Educational Program and Practice, which focuses on ensuring that educational program and practice is stimulating and engaging, enhances children's learning…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, National Standards, Child Care, Early Childhood Education
UNICEF, 2014
This report presents key statistics relating to: (1) child malnutrition in Africa; (2) HIV/AIDS and Malaria in Africa; (3) child marriage, birth registration and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C); (4) education in Africa; (5) child mortality in Africa; (6) Drinking water and sanitation in Africa; and (7) maternal health in Africa.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Data, Child Health, Nutrition
Adamson, Peter – UNICEF, 2013
Part 1 of the Report Card presents a league table of child well-being in 29 of the world's advanced economies. Part 2 looks at what children say about their own well-being (including a league table of children's life satisfaction). Part 3 examines changes in child well-being in advanced economies over the first decade of the 2000s, looking at each…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Children, Well Being, Life Satisfaction
Moolenaar, Ronald L., Ed. – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012
The "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" ("MMWR") Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Data presented by the Notifiable Disease Data Team and 122 Cities Mortality Data Team in the weekly "MMWR" are provisional, based on weekly reports to CDC by state health departments. This…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Poisoning, Drug Therapy, Patients
Hudson, John; Kühner, Stefan – UNICEF, 2016
This Report Card presents an overview of inequalities in child well-being in 41 countries of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It focuses on 'bottom-end inequality' -- the gap between children at the bottom and those in the middle -- and addresses the question 'how far behind are…
Descriptors: Children, Child Health, Well Being, Life Satisfaction
Aslam, Abid; Grojec, Anna; Little, Céline; Maloney, Ticiana; Tamagni, Jordan – UNICEF, 2014
"The State of the World's Children 2014 In Numbers: Every Child Counts" highlights the critical role data and monitoring play in realizing children's rights. Credible data, disseminated effectively and used correctly, make it possible to target interventions that help right the wrong of exclusion. Data do not, of themselves, change the…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Rights, Mortality Rate, Regional Characteristics
Blanden, Jo; Machin, Stephen; Murphy, Richard; Tominey, Emma – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2010
The Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda was introduced in the UK, as a policy aiming to improve child outcomes along five broad areas. The categories are Be Healthy, Stay Safe, Enjoy and Achieve, Make a Positive Contribution and Achieve Economic Wellbeing. The objective therefore, is to move beyond the traditional focus on child academic outcomes, to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Federal Legislation, Well Being, Children