This section gathers the website contents concerning the health of children– understood as a general condition of physical, psychological and social well-being – and hence not only related to the presence of diseases or specific health issues.
It includes topics concerning the environmental factors that can affect such condition, the prevention activities, the disability of children and the relevant supporting actions in the family and school settings. Contents relating to the psychological support of children in difficult and emergency situations can also be found in this section.
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Hunger threatens over 122 million more people worldwide than in 2019, due to both the pandemic and a succession of climate disruptions and conflicts, including the war in Ukraine. According to the recent report The State of Food...
Aimed at adolescents between the ages of 16 and 18, I'm Listening, the new national online public consultation launched by the Italian Ombudsperson for children (AGIA) to understand how the quality of life of adolescents has...
During the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccination coverage dropped drastically, leaving millions of children without any protection against serious childhood diseases. UNICEF's new report, The State of the World's Children: for every child...
Female genital mutilation (FGM) has very serious consequences on the physical and mental health of girls and young women who undergo it. The World Day of Zero Tolerance against Female Genital Mutilation, which occurs on...
It's called How are you? the thirteenth edition of the Atlas of Childhood at Risk by Save the Children, a snapshot of the living conditions of children and young people in our country, from which the strong impact of socio-...
During the Covid-19 pandemic, girls and boys all over India experienced anxiety disorders and problems sleeping due to high stress. This is revealed by the results of research conducted by Save the Children, which also show an increase...
The number of hungry people in the world is growing, rising to 828 million in 2021. The recent report The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 – by five United Nations agencies (FAO,...
On 28 June, the Observatory for the Prevention of Health Damage from Regular and Irregular Child Labour was set up in Rome (UNICEF's national headquarters), with the presence, among others, of Carmela Pace, president of UNICEF Italy,...
Most rich countries are creating unhealthy, dangerous and harmful conditions for children around the world. The recent Innocenti Report Card 17Locations and Spaces. Environment and Children's Well-Being, conducted by the Unicef...
The Covid-19 pandemic also had a strong impact on people's cultural lives. This is demonstrated by the reduction in the number of visitors to museums highlighted by the data of the Observatory #Conibambini, published on the website of...
During the pandemic, there was an increase in the number of neuropsychological disorders among children and young people. This was a real "mental health emergency", and could be measured by the increase in requests for help in this area...
The initial data from the survey "Children and young people: behaviour, attitudes, and future projects", carried out in 2021 by the National Institute of Statistics with the support of the Ministry of Education, are available...
Are children really learning? (Are children really learning?) is the new report by Unicef that explores the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the related school closures on children in 32 low- and middle-income countries...
April 7 is World Health Day and this year is dedicated to the theme Our planet, Our health. The aim is to focus global attention on the urgent actions needed to keep humans and the planet healthy and...
The report The effect of the pandemic on childhood education services in Italy, prepared by a research group of the National Institute of Statistics and the Governance & Social Innovation Centre of the Ca...
The publication The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on birth rates and the condition of new generations, the second report of the Expert Group "Demography and Covid-19," established in April 2020 by Minister for Equal...
6 February is World Zero Tolerance Day against Female Genital Mutilation, established by the United Nations to raise awareness of a practice that violates human rights and has very serious consequences for the...
The closure of schools due to the pandemic had a huge impact on children's learning, but also on their mental health and other aspects of their lives. The recent report The state of the global education crisis - produced...