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WHO
Collaborative Programme
Child
and Adolescent Health
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Situation Analysis:
Lebanon achieved a remarkable reduction of infant and children mortality rates over the last decade. The child health care provides special emphasis to the preventive aspect of care as well as neonatal age group.
Due to the current situation in South Lebanon, children are exposed to emerging conditions due to armed conflicts such as children victims of mines and diarrhoea outbreaks.
Community based interventions represent an influential infrastructure to attain high level of awareness and active participation of the community in the area of child health care.
Convention of child rights launched in the country in the year 2001 with high political support from the government.
During the previous biennium, the national authorities, in collaboration with the WHO/EMRO conducted an assessment on adolescent health situation and adolescent health needs in the country. As a result, national policy makers and programme managers are becoming more aware of the health and development needs of the adolescent population and more able to propose appropriate national policies and strategies to meet such needs. Continuing promotion of the diversity of healthy life-styles and active participation of adolescents must accompany health education reflecting the various community value systems. Greater awareness among parents, teachers and health workers about the needs, aspirations and potential contribution of adolescents will reinforce the protective factors of family and community essential to adolescent health and development.
Achievements
Community based interventions such as school clubs, where children play the role of community educators on different aspects of health such as environmental health established.
Committee on Convention of Child Rights formulated.
The resolution (EM/RC43/R.11) set directive strategies for promoting adolescent health and development in the country.
Constraints:
- National policies and strategies are still need to be further developed / strengthened;
- Variable levels of awareness of programme managers, the family and community, in some communities, of the health and development needs of adolescents;
- Incomplete situational analysis on the health and development status and living conditions of adolescents in some sectors beyond risk-taking and sexual behaviour;
Priority Areas:
- Under five children Health
- Breastfeeding and child nutrition
- Improvement of health providers skills
- Improvement of health system
- Promotion of healthy pshycho - social growth and development of children.
- Improvement of community and family capabilities to promote child health.
- Adolescent reproductive health;
- Nutrition and dietary practices;
- Personal health and hygiene;
- Healthy life-styles for health promotion and disease prevention;
- Mental health;
- Promotion of the value of the marriage institution and family.
Objectives:
To ensure healthy population development through protection and promotion of adolescent health and development.
Targets: By the year 2003, the country will have:
1. Developed specific policies and strategies for child and adolescent health and development as an essential component of the national health system;
2. Undertaken research to develop evidence-based integrated interventions for child and
adolescent health and development;
3. Strengthened its national capabilities to devise, test and implement health promotion, prevention and care interventions for children and adolescents in homes and the community;
4. Advocated policies and strategies to protect the rights of children and adolescents in relation to health and health care.
Indicators:
1. Documented national policies and strategies for child and adolescent health and development;
2. Developed evidence-based standards and norms for quality care of children and adolescents;
3. Implemented interventions for health promotion, prevention and care for children and adolescents at homes and in the community;
4. Formulated model legislation for right based approach to health of children and adolescents in line with the Conventions of Children's Rights.
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