A future for the world’s children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission (3)

19 February, 2020

There is also a useful summary of the report on the BBC today, including tables of the top and bottom ten countries for child flourishing and for the sustainability index. 1,2 and 3 for flourishing are Norway, Korea and Netherlands - well done and let's hear from CHIFA members in those countries on what they do right!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51547441

Tony

CHIFA profile: Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and directed the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He was an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights. He is currently the lead moderator of CHIFA. www.chifa.org <http://www.chifa.org/> He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group. www.hifa.org/people/steering-group www.hifa.org/support/members/tony

Email: Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk