Section 1.6: Child and Adolescent Health
| Most of the countries covered have either public medical services or some form of health insurance. These are usually universal. Many countries also have some privately delivered services, usually elected by a minority. In some places, children and youth are served by the general system, with access to specialists as needed. In many other countries, child services are anchored in child health clinics (akin to U.S. well-baby clinics) and infants may also be served by a system of home visitors in the earliest weeks, months, or years. In many countries, school-aged children are served in school-based health services. |
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| Comparative tables are currently unavailable. For specifics please refer to country summaries. The following comparative reports focus on health issues related to children and youth. UNICEF, ‘A league table of child deaths by injury in rich nations’, Innocenti Report Card No.2, February 2001. UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence. HBSC is a cross-national research study conducted in collaboration with the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. The researchers are a multi-disciplinary network from a growing number of European countries, Canada and the US, looking at the health, health behaviours, lifestyles and their context of young people. The survey is carried out every four years in each of the participating countries - the last was in 1997/98 and the next is scheduled for 2001/02.
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ReferencesAlfred J. Kahn and Sheila B. Kamerman, Social Policy and the Under-3s: Six Country Case Studies (New York: Cross National Studies Research Program, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1994). Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn, Starting Right (Oxford University Press, 1995), "Ch. 5, A Healthy Start." Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD in Figures (Paris: 2000). OECD, Education at a Glance (Paris, 2000). UNESCO Statistical Yearbook, 2000 (Paris). World Health Organization, WHO Yearbook. World Health Organization, Guide to WHO Documents concerning Adolescent Health and Development (Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, Family and Community Health, WHO, October 1999). |
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| Last updated November 2004 |
