Measuring child functioning:the Unicef/ Washington Group Module

Measuring child functioning: the Unicef/ Washington Group Module.

T Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989 included the first explicit provision relating to the rights of children with disabilities. It included a prohibition against discrimination on the grounds of disability (art. 2), and obligations to provide services for children with disabilities, in order to enable them to achieve the fullest possible social integration (art. 23).1 The C...

UNICEF assistance for child nutrition

By the end of this year, after 9 years of operation, UNICEF will have shipped, or allocated for shipment, a total of about 700,000,000 lb. of dried skim milk. In addition, it will have allocated the equivalent of over E3,5oo,ooo for milk-conservation projects. The purpose of this paper is to present some points of interest from a nutritional point of view on how and why this was done, together ...

Childhood disability population-based surveillance: Assessment of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire Third Edition and Washington Group on Disability Statistics/UNICEF module on child functioning in a rural setting in South Africa

BACKGROUND Epidemiological information on childhood disability provides the basis for a country to plan, implement and manage the provision of health, educational and social services for these vulnerable children. There is, however, currently no population-based surveillance instrument that is compatible with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), internat...

Measuring child benefits: Measuring child poverty

Introduction 1 Adequacy and the Anti-Poverty Objective of Child Benefits 3 Poverty and the role of child benefits 3 Which costs are included within an adequate child benefit? 7 Vertical and horizontal equity 8 Defining a just-above-poverty-level standard of living 9 Methodologies for Measuring Adequacy 20 Expenditure-based strategies 20 Alternative survey-based methodologies 29 Deprivation inde...

CHILD Eolian Deposition Module