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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9073

23 November 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 39 / 44
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/who/health
WHO wants to see better promotion of child and teenager health in Europe

Brussels, 22/11/2005 (Agence Europe) - In Brussels recently, Dr Mikael Ostergren unveiled a new World Health Organisation fact sheet (Euro/06/05) on the health of children and adolescents in Europe. Mortality of children under the age of five is falling in Europe, but a child born in the Commonwealth of Independent States is three times as likely to die before the age of five as a child born in the EU. The average figures of children dying in the first five years of life ranges from 6 per...

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