Involving children in global health policy and programming: practical guidance to get started.

ABSTRACT: Children face new and growing threats to their health and well-being, including rising rates of non-communicable diseases and mental health disorders linked to the influence of commercial determinants of health and climate change, among other issues. Yet despite their right to participation established under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, children are rarely invited to participate in global health processes meant to benefit them, whether by selecting priorities, designing policies and programming, advocating for their adoption or evaluating their implementation or impact. We call for greater involvement of children in global health initiatives, particularly those designed to benefit them, and lay out five principles to structure such engagement: (i) respect for c

SUBMITTER: Mathews G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12015606 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature