... Abstract Congenital heart defects (CHD) remain one of the most common categories of birth defects worldwide. In many developing countries, high early childhood mortality and limited diagnostic facilities often obscure the true scope of the problem. In this review, we provide an overview...

..., policy making, regular politics and public opinion. Here, I recall personal experience and review mother and child health (MCH) policies in the last 50 or more years in Chile, the country I know best [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. The first registered event on child health policy in Chile took place in 1912...

... this. Wasting continues to be a vital indicator to target feeding programs and to assess progress towards its elimination in regions and countries. The World Health Assembly (WHA) has now endorsed a target of reducing and maintaining wasting at <5% globally by 2025 [ 17 ]. The importance of assessing linear...