Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Child Health

Child health is the field concerned with the physical, mental, developmental, and social well-being of children from the prenatal period through adolescence, integrating preventive care, nutrition, growth and development, immunisation, and the management of illness. It recognises that early-life conditions shape lif…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 108× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2766-8681 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Child health is the field concerned with the physical, mental, developmental, and social well-being of children from the prenatal period through adolescence, integrating preventive care, nutrition, growth and development, immunisation, and the management of illness. It recognises that early-life conditions shape lifelong health and that children's needs are distinct from those of adults. The studies gathered here emphasise the determinants of child health in community and population settings. Nutrition and growth are central, including risk factors for stunting among young children, the nutritional status and health outcomes of women and children, and the utilisation of nutrition services for pregnant women and growth-monitoring practices. Maternal and caregiver factors feature strongly, with work on women's empowerment and the integration of maternal and child healthcare, the role of community health workers, and male involvement in routine child immunisation. Infectious disease and mortality are addressed through the prevalence and determinants of childhood diarrhoea and multilevel modelling of child mortality. Injury and environmental exposures appear in studies of unintentional childhood injury and caregiver knowledge of early management, and of the impact of computer use on child health. Together these contributions present child health as a discipline spanning nutrition, immunisation, maternal and caregiver influences, infectious disease, and injury prevention, with a consistent focus on the social and health-system factors that shape children's outcomes.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 108 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Child Health, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Current Scientific Research (ISSN 2766-8681).

Journal editorial board
Eva Volna · Czech Republic Shailendra Dwivedi · United States Mukhtar Ansari · Saudi Arabia

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