More than 80% of car seats are installed incorrectly, which means four out of five children are improperly restrained and at risk for injury. Watch as Claudia Romo, an injury prevention specialist and certified passenger safety technician at Children’s, demonstrates how to select the right seat for your child and how to properly install an infant car seat.
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UNICEF: Food crisis ravages India’s poorest children
GURAVAL VILLAGE, Madhya Pradesh, India, 9 June 2008 — Despite a robust economy with 9 per cent annual growth in recent years, inflation and the food crisis in India now threaten to erode many of the gains made here. In order to address both the complex situation causing high rates of child malnutrition in India, the retail giant IKEA is supporting UNICEF India with an million package of health, nutrition, and water and sanitation programmes over the next five years. In the state of Madhya Pradesh, which has the highest child mortality and child malnutrition rates in the country, government supplementary programmes are under threat. Community workers have complained that they can no longer give severely malnourished children a healthy, balanced diet out of the 2 Rupees per day that they receive from government for each child. www.unicef.org
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How To Knit a Simple Baby Hat
This hat will fit most infants up to about a year-old—but you can easily add more rows to fit even an adult-sized head. Just make sure it’s an adult who won’t mind a hat with cute, little animal ears.
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Washington Hospital: Healthy Children – Potty Training
Child rearing can be a rewarding, but sometimes frustrating experience. Over the years we’ve helped parents, stepparents, grandparents, and other caregivers deal with difficult issues, such as toilet training, sleep problems in infants, behavioral issues, and a host of other concerns. To make things a bit easier for parents to find answers to questions about children’s health and behavior … from infancy through puberty … Washington Hospital in Fremont, California has developed a series of short videos called Healthy Children. Each program provides tips from physicians in answer to parents’ most common questions about children’s health.
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Dr. Doris Rapp – Children’s Allergies to Food & Environment
Dr. Rapp is dedicated to sharing important information about harmful environmental factors that can affect how children and adults feel, think and act in our high-tech, high-stress, high-profit world. The “progress at any cost” mentality is rapidly overwhelming our bodies as we attempt to cope with our increasingly polluted environment. Dr. Rapp is committed to educate both the public and health professionals about the ominous physical and behavioral changes frequently evident in children and adults. The more we know, the more we can protect ourselves and our loved ones by taking some often easy and inexpensive precautions. We simply have to be more informed so we can make better choices. In her breakthrough book, “Is This Your Child’s World?” – Dr. Rapp identifies the major symptoms of potentially unrecognized allergies in children and adults, suggesting possible sensitivities to dust, mold, pollen, foods or chemicals. Allergies are much more than high fever, asthma and itchy skin. It is possible to identify allergies by simply looking at someone. At times it is surprisingly easy to find and eliminate the cause. The typical clues of allergies and environmental illness can include any combination of the following: Rubbing Nose Upwards, Eye Wrinkles, Dark Eye Circles, Sudden Aggression, Scarlet Earlobes, A Spacey Look, Extreme Activity Changes, Wiggly Legs, Red Cheeks, A Mottled Tongue
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Davos Annual Meeting 2011 – Raising Healthy Children
www.weforum.org 28.01.2011 How can disease and mortality rates among children in developing countries be radically decreased? The following dimensions will be addressed – Access to medicines and vaccinations – Maternal health and nutrition – Social and cultural factors • Bono, Lead singer of U2 and Co-Founder, ONE campaign and (RED), ONE, United Kingdom • Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva • Melinda French Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA • Muhtar A. Kent, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company, USA • Lars Rebien Sorensen, President and Chief Executive Officer, Novo Nordisk, Denmark Moderated by • Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Rome