Main description:

Global Child Health Advocacy: On the Front Lines inspires and equips child health professionals to join together and work for positive change.

This first-in-its-field resource brings you up-close accounts of successful initiatives straight from the front lines. If offers an inside look on the innovative strategies, tools, and techniques today's advocates use to promote health, deliver targeted care, and implement policies to improve children's lives.

A multi-national editorial team assembles engaging stories chronicling the experiences of top-tier advocates in every corner of the globe:

Improving access to care in Nigeria.
Creating a public child medical insurance system in China.
Haemophilus influenzae vaccine advocacy in Guatemala.
Implementing a national immunization program in the U.S..
Community partnerships for polio eradication in India.
Malnutrition crisis intervention in Niger.
HIV advocacy in South Africa.
Reducing neonatal mortality in Chile.
Campaigning against tobacco in the western Pacific.
Preventing diarheal diseases in Peru.
And much more!

Contents:

Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Section 1: Overview of Global Child Health Advocacy
Chapter 1 Advocacy of the Front Lines
Chapter 2 Caring for Our Children as One World Community
Chapter 3 Improving Access to Care in Nigeria
Chapter 4 Creating a Public Child Medical Insurance System
Section 2: Immunizations
Chapter 5 Nurturing Partnerships: Implementing a National Immunization Program in the United States
Chapter 6 Preventing Neonatal Tetanus in Haiti
Chapter 7 Haemophilus influenzae Vaccine Advocacy in Guatemala
Chapter 8 Advocating for Equity Through Immunization
Chapter 9 Community Partnerships for Polio Eradication
Section 3: Undernutrition
Chapter 10 Malnutrition Crisis Intervention in Niger
Chapter 11 Improving Nutrition and Health in Adolescent
Chapter 12 Improving Nutrition in Rural China
Section 4: Acute and Chronic Health Care
Chapter 13 Diarrhea and Pneumonia: Genesis of a Global Action Plan
Chapter 14 Pneumonia Management: The World Health
Chapter 15 Preventing Diarrheal Disease Through Sanitation in Peru
Chapter 16 Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative
Chapter 17 HIV Advocacy in South Africa
Chapter 18 Sickle Cell Disease: Creating a Global Network
Section 5: Maternal and Newborn Health
Chapter 19 Newborn Survival
Chapter 20 Helping Babies Breathe
Chapter 21 Reducing Maternal and Neonatal Morality in Rural China
Chapter 22 Reducing Neonatal Mortality in Chile
Section 6: Health Promotion and Child Development
Chapter 23 Campaign Against Tobacco in the World
Chapter 24 Obesity: Response to a Global Epidemic
Chapter 25 Obesity: Engaging the Community
Chapter 26 Early Child Development: Health Equity From the Start in Chile
Chapter 27 Child Maltreatment: A Global Perspective
Section 7: A Call to Action
Chapter 28: Advocacy in All Arenas
Chapter 29: ICATCH: Become a Change Agent
Chapter 30: Global Networks
Index