Traduction de «Maladie chronique bulleuse de l'enfance » (Français → Anglais) :

Chronic bullous disease of childhood

Undernutrition also puts a strain on over-stretched health systems, as undernourished individuals are more likely to be sick, and undernutrition in childhood is associated with chronic, costly, diseases later in life.

Sylvain Segard, Director General, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada: Honourable senators, with me today is Kelly Stone, Director of the Division of Childhood and Adolescence at the Centre.

Kelly Stone, Director, Division of Childhood and Adolescence, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada: The committee itself is one where dialogue is promoted, as mentioned.

(Return tabled) Question No. 422 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to nutrition in child and adolescent populations in Canada: (a) does government policy include recognition and acceptance of the principle that Canada’s children and adolescents are entitled to nutritious food (i) regardless of where they live, (ii) regardless of their family income, (iii) particularly when economic forces undermine efforts by parents and caregivers to ensure healthy eating; (b) given that the 1992 World Declaration on Nutrition, to which Canada was a signatory, states that access to nutritionally adequate and safe food is a right of each individual, what specific actions ...[+++] have the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Health Canada undertaken for children and adolescents in order to fulfill this commitment; (c) what percentage of children and adolescents in Canada is food insecure, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (d) what percentage of children and adolescents lives below the poverty line, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (e) what percentage of children and adolescents has, as a result of living below the poverty line, (i) poor nutritional status, (ii) poor health outcomes due to their poor nutritional status; (f) what percentage of members of each of the following groups is food insecure, (i) child and adolescent newcomers, (ii) children and adolescents who live in poverty, (iii) children and adolescents who live in priority neighbourhoods, (iv) Aboriginal children and adolescents; (g) what percentage of children and adolescents (i) involuntarily misses meals, (ii) lacks healthy variety in its diet; (h) does the government have information, and, if so, what is that information, concerning (i) how (g)(i) and (g)(ii) impact the caloric a ...