The beneficial impact of health promotion and disease prevention on both citizens and health systems and that healthy diets and physical activity significantly reduce the risk of chronic conditions and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) (22), and contribute substantially to the healthy growth of children, healthy life years (HLY) and good quality of life of children, adolescents and adults.

1. Where, on account of pregnancy, a new-born child, serious illness, severe disability or old age, an applicant is dependent on the assistance of his or her child, sibling or parent legally resident in one of the Member States, or his or her child, sibling or parent legally resident in one of the Member States is dependent on the assistance of the applicant, Member States shall normally keep or bring together the applicant with that child, sibling or parent, provided that family ties existed in the country of origin, that the child, sibling or parent or the applicant is able to take care of the dependent person and that the persons conc ...[+++]erned expressed their desire in writing.

There is also evidence that ETS may cause stroke, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in adults[3] and worsen pre-existing conditions such as asthma and COPD.[4] ETS is particularly harmful to children, causing asthma, pneumonia and bronchitis, respiratory symptoms, middle ear disease, and sudden infant death syndrome.[5] In addition to the health risk, exposure to tobacco smoke at home and in public places could increase children's perceptions about smoking as common adult behaviour and thus could make it more likely that they will become smokers themselves.

If the legislation of a Member State subordinates recognition of entitlement to a benefit to the completion of a minimum period of insurance during a determined period preceding the contingency insured against (reference period) and lays down that periods during which benefits were paid under the legislation of that Member State or periods devoted to child-rearing in the territory of that Member State shall extend this reference period, the periods during which invalidity or old age pensions or sickness, unemployment, industrial accidents at work or occupational disease benefits were paid under the legislation of another Member State and ...[+++] periods devoted to child-rearing in the territory of another Member State shall also extend this reference period’.

Seven positions will disappear with the abolition of the board of trustees of the Queen Elizabeth II Canadian research fund, which manages funds intended for research on children's diseases (1840) But the interesting point is that this agency will no longer exist to manage the funds, yet research will be carried on and will from now on be performed by the Canadian Medical Research Council.

As well, a number of health conditions in infants and children have been tied to the inadequacy of specific nutrients in the mother's prenatal diet.