Child Health Accountability Tracking Technical Advisory Group (CHAT)
Improving health and well-being outcomes for children (age 1 month to 59 months, and 5 to 9 years) is a priority for WHO and UNICEF. CHAT is a technical advisory group to WHO and UNICEF. Its main obje
Child Health Accountability Tracking Technical Advisory Group (CHAT)
Child Health Accountability Tracking Technical Advisory Group (CHAT): Source: WHO Publications; Evidence Grade: A; Authority refresh ingestion. Based on North America guidelines for postpartum.
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4/1/2026
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Improving health and well-being outcomes for children (age 1 month to 59 months, and 5 to 9 years) is a priority for WHO and UNICEF. CHAT is a technical advisory group to WHO and UNICEF. Its main objective is to support the harmonization and standardization of child health and well-being indicators.
Objective 1: To provide a platform for sharing and discussing the work of key child health and well-being initiatives and relevant work of UNICEF and WHO aimed at the achievement of child health related global goals and targets.
Objective 2: To identify priority activities and measurement gaps in child health and well-being.
Objective 3: To create a catalogue of standard indicators and validated tools for measuring and monitoring child health and well-being indicators.
CHAT selected 26 core indicators measuring child health and well-being (published in Lancet Child and Adolescent Health). This group of indicators can be found in the searchable toolkit of child health indicators.
The group completed a roadmap for prioritizing a set of childhood pneumonia indicators for measurement improvement. Similar roadmaps are underway for malaria and diarrhoea.
Global Strategy for Women’s Children’s and Adolescents Health (2016-2030) Data Portal
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)
Improving the quality of paediatric care: an operational guide for facility based audit and review of paediatric mortality
Ending preventable child deaths from pneumonia and diarrhoea by 2025: The integrated Global Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD)
Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development
UN IGME : UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation
UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys
Countdown to 2030 for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health
Data for Decisions to Expand Nutrition Transformation (DataDENT)
Early Childhood Development Action Network
USAID Maternal and Child Survival Program: Child Health Task Force
Stop Pneumonia – Every Breath Counts Campaign
References
- Child Health Accountability Tracking Technical Advisory Group (CHAT)(World Health Organization)4/1/2026
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