CAS-+Article+24

**__Article 24__**
1. States Parties recognize the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment of illness and rehabilitation of health. States Parties shall strive to ensure that no child is deprived of his or her right of access to such health care services. 2. States Parties shall pursue full implementation of this right and, in particular, shall take appropriate measures: (a) To diminish infant and child mortality; (b) To ensure the provision of necessary medical assistance and health care to all children with emphasis on the development of primary health care; (c) To combat disease and malnutrition, including within the framework of primary health care, through, inter alia, the application of readily available technology and through the provision of adequate nutritious foods and clean drinking-water, taking into consideration the dangers and risks of environmental pollution; (d) To ensure appropriate pre-natal and post-natal health care for mothers; (e) To ensure that all segments of society, in particular parents and children, are informed, have access to education and are supported in the use of basic knowledge of child health and nutrition, the advantages of breastfeeding, hygiene and environmental sanitation and the prevention of accidents; (f) To develop preventive health care, guidance for parents and family planning education and services. 3. States Parties shall take all effective and appropriate measures with a view to abolishing traditional practices prejudicial to the health of children. 4. States Parties undertake to promote and encourage international co-operation with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of the right recognized in the present article. In this regard, particular account shall be taken of the needs of developing countries. [|http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm]

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QUESTIONS


 * 1) Is there a high mortality rate in your region/country/community?
 * 2) Is primary health care present in all of the hospitals?
 * 3) Is there a high level of pollution in your region/country/community?
 * 4) Is there a water drenage that cleans the water in your region/country/community?
 * 5) Is there appropriate pre-natal health care for mothers? and post-natal health care?
 * 6) Are there available technological machines in the hospitals of your region/country/community?
 * 7) Are the people living in your region/country/community aware of the type of sanitation present in the region/country/community?
 * 8) Are the people livng in your region/country/community taking into consideration enviormental pollution and the risks it presents?
 * 9) Do the people present in your region/country/community have a basic understanding and knowledge on child health and good nutrition?
 * 10) Have you ever witnessed unfair treatment from doctors in your region/country/community?
 * 11) Do people your age have to posses any documentation in order to have free acess to the hospitals in your region/country/community?