
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.
You can also search for contents concerning the broader topic of mother-child health and sexuality.
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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...
The right to food and food security as fundamental rights of the children: a legal framework
One of the internationally guaranteed human rights is the right to food, acknowledged for the first time in Article 25...
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...
The inclusion of children and young people with autism spectrum disorders: a regulatory framework
Knowledge of autism spectrum disorders has significantly changed over the past two decades, particularly in terms...
The fight against female genital mutilation: a legal framework
The fight against genital mutilation for the protection of the health and psychophysical integrity of girls and young women: a...
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-...
The supplement to the 2/2022 issue of the Bibliographic Review consists of a reading path entitled L'impatto della pornografia online sulle persone di minore età tra mito e realtà (virtuale) (The impact of online pornography on...
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 cultural and educational sectors have been...
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 right to health as a priority for the present and the future: a legal framework
April 7 marks World Health Day, an annual international event that is celebrated to draw attention to a topic of concern to...
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 Index of the Well-Being of Girls and Boys is the evolution of a complex body of work that the National...
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...
Distance learning and integrated digital education in times of pandemic: main legal provisions and division of competences between State and Regions
The health emergency caused by Covid-19 has impacted the...
The decarceration of mothers in the interest of children. Covid-19's impact on prison life for children.
How has Covid-19 impacted the lives of children living with mothers in prison and what are the...
Social inclusion and disability protection from the perspective of children: a legal framework
In recent decades, the issue of disability has become increasingly central to the international, supranational and...
The National Recovery and Resilience Plan: an in-depth look at the measures planned within the framework of policies for childhood, adolescence and families
In 2020, the EU provided an unprecedented response to...
The statistics database of the National Centre for Documentation and...
The supplement to issue 4/2020 of Rassegna bibliografica consists of a reading path, entitled Health and well-being of children in the first 1000 days of life by Monica Mancini -...