ABSTRACT
Infectious and other diseases, family and social violence, stress, unhealthful lifestyles, and pollution have had the most dramatic impact on child health during transition. With basic services scarce and costly, the region's health care, immunization, and safe water and sanitation programs have been severely cut back. A decline in the quality of diet has compounded these problems, leaving children less resistant to disease. And massive movements of populations fleeing inter-ethnic strife and armed conflict have created ideal breeding grounds for infection.
