Fast Facts (Source NFHS 3, 2005-2006) Key Issues Undernutrition jeopardizes children's survival, health, growth and development, and it slows national progress towards development goals.
Democrats said that their Republican counterparts would move to eliminate the Community Services Block Grant to states, jeopardizing child care, Meals on Wheels services, child protective services and transportation assistance for millions of children and older people.
The limited proportion of people with access to safe drinking water is unacceptable and jeopardize child health and development.
Conflicts between caregiving and work also jeopardized child welfare: 47% of orphan caregivers said their work got in the way of meeting children's needs compared to only 30% who were not caring for orphans (Heymann et al., 2007).
Lawrence A. McAndrews, president of the National Association of Children's Hospitals, said the proposal would "jeopardize children's access to physicians" and "exacerbate the current national shortage of pediatric specialists such as neurologists and surgeons".
"We should not set the age of transfer" from juvenile courts to criminal ones "at 12 or 13, as many states do, because we will be jeopardizing children," Professor Steinberg said.
Preventable diseases also jeopardize children's educations.
Moreover, a wait-and-see approach to acute otitis media treatment in the paediatric population seems to reduce antibiotic consumption and subsequent resistance without jeopardizing children's safety and well-being [ 19].
Tiny pieces of screen wire can fall onto the floor (especially when opening a fresh pack), jeopardizing children, pets, etc. Always handle new ones over the trash or sink.
Insufficient nutrition jeopardizes a child's physical health, capacity to learn, and behavioral and social development.
