Publications

Child friendly healthcare - A manual for health workers (English)

Child friendly healthcare - A manual for health workers (Spanish)

Pediatrics Paper

Paediatric Nursing Paper

Kind en ziekenhuis (September 2003)

The Child Friendly Healthcare Initiative (CFHI): An opportunity to improve the experience of health care for children and families everywhere

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"For the last two and a half years, a small team has been developing and piloting a project to improve the physical, psychological and emotional care of children and families. The Child Friendly Healthcare Initiative (CFHI) was designed to build upon the global success of the UNICEF/WHO Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, and has been developing methods of helping health workers to assess and improve the care they give to children and families (including the breastfeeding promotion of the Baby Friendly Initiative). Standards that cover all aspects of care have been developed and promoted that are applicable to all children anywhere in the world.

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