{"id":41,"date":"2023-07-19T12:44:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T12:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthydietdays.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/19\/what-are-the-top-10-health-issues-affecting-children-worldwide\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T12:54:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T12:54:51","slug":"what-are-the-top-10-health-issues-affecting-children-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthydietdays.com\/what-are-the-top-10-health-issues-affecting-children-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the top 10 health issues affecting children worldwide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Malnutrition: Lack of proper nutrition leading to stunted growth and impaired immune system function.<br \/>\n2. Infectious diseases: Including diseases such as pneumonia, malaria, diarrheal diseases, HIV\/AIDS, and tuberculosis.<br \/>\n3. Respiratory problems: Asthma, bronchiolitis, and other respiratory illnesses are common and often exacerbated by pollution and poor living conditions.<br \/>\n4. Mental health disorders: Depression, anxiety, ADHD, and other mental health conditions are increasingly affecting children.<br \/>\n5. Obesity: The prevalence of childhood obesity has been rapidly increasing worldwide due to poor diet and lack of physical activity.<br \/>\n6. Immunization gaps: Inadequate access to vaccines can lead to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.<br \/>\n7. Injury: Accidents, falls, and physical injuries are a significant cause of childhood morbidity and mortality.<br \/>\n8. Lack of access to clean water and sanitation: This can lead to various diseases, including diarrheal diseases and parasitic infections.<br \/>\n9. Neglected tropical diseases: A group of diseases prevalent in tropical and subtropical regions, such as dengue fever, schistosomiasis, and soil-transmitted helminth infections.<br \/>\n10. Non-communicable diseases: Conditions such as diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases are increasingly affecting children, partly due to changes in lifestyle and diet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Malnutrition: Lack of proper nutrition leading to stunted growth and impaired immune system function&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6,8,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthydietdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthydietdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthydietdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthydietdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthydietdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthydietdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/healthydietdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthydietdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthydietdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthydietdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthydietdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}