tailieunhanh - MATERNAL NEWBORN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH

This review highlights the importance of play, particularly outdoor play, for increasing levels of physical activity, alongside other positive influences on a child’s well-being, such as opportunities to understand and respect the natural world. However, children seem to be getting fewer opportunities to play. A combination of poor play environments, busy school schedules and an increase in structured activities has meant that this beneficial and basic children’s right has become sidelined, often perceived as an ‘unaffordable luxury’ (Elkind 2008). Even self-directed play during school break times, which has been linked to improving concentration and behaviour during lesson times (Madsen. | Highlights Progress Report 2010-2011 ỂẩBằ World Health WIW Organization TERNAL m n c a h EUBUUUIỊM SbLBWnDI HSL@ss@nT ALTH WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Maternal newborn child and adolescent health progress report 2010-2011 highlights. welfare. health services. health services. welfare. welfare. evaluation. development. Health Organization. ISBN 978 92 4 150360 0 NLM classification WA 310 World Health Organization 2012 All rights reserved. Publications of the World Health Organization are available on the WHO web site or can be purchased from WHO Press World Health Organization 20 Avenue Appia 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland tel. 41 22 791 3264 fax 41 22 791 4857 e-mail bookorders@ . Requests for permission to reproduce or translate WHO publications - whether for sale or for noncommercial distribution - should be addressed to WHO Press through the WHO web site http about licensing copyright_form en . The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country territory city or area or of its authorities or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Dotted lines on maps represent approximate border lines for which there may not yet be full agreement. The mention of specific companies or of certain manufacturers products does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by the World Health Organization in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. Errors and omissions excepted the names of proprietary products are distinguished by initial capital letters. All reasonable precautions have been taken by the World Health Organization to verify the information contained in this publication. However the published material is being distributed .