The World Health Organization Standards for improving quality of care for children and young adolescents aged 0–15 years in health facilities is the second series of standards of care published to address the broader vision, in which “every woman, child and adolescent receives quality care throughout the life continuum and levels of care”.
The standards delineate what is expected in order to respect children’s rights: ensuring child, adolescent and family-friendly health facilities and services; evidence-based clinical care; availability of child and adolescent-specific appropriate equipment; appropriately trained, competent staff. The standards include health facility measures to facilitate implementation, to track improvement and to monitor performance. The standards are based on the eight domains of the framework for improving the quality of care and address the most common conditions that affect children and adolescents in health facilities.