Disability-adjusted life year for childhood-cluster diseases per 100,000 inhabitants. These include pertussis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, measles, and tetanus.
no data
≤ 25
25-50
50-100
100-200
200-300
300-400
400-500
500-750
750-1000
1000-2000
2000-3000
≥ 3000
The term childhood disease refers to disease that is contracted or becomes symptomatic before the age of 18 or 21 years old. Many of these diseases can also be contracted by adults.
Some childhood diseases include:
Diseases of neonates and children younger than five years
- Candida albicans infection
- Candida parapsilosis infection
- Cytomegalovirus infection
- diphtheria
- human coronavirus infection
- respiratory distress syndrome
- measles
- meconium aspiration syndrome
- metapneumovirus (hMPV) infection
- Necrotizing enterocolitis
- Gonorrhea infection of the newborn
- parainfluenza (PIV) infection
- pertussis
- poliomyelitis
- prenatal Listeria
- Group B streptoccus infection
- Tay–Sachs disease
- tetanus
- Ureaplasma urealyticum infection
- respiratory Syncytial Virus infection
- rhinovirus; common cold
Diseases of older children
- Common cold
- AIDS
- Anemia
- Asthma
- Bronchiolitis
- Cancer
- Candidiasis ("Thrush")
- Chagas disease
- Chickenpox
- Croup
- Cystic fibrosis
- Cytomegalovirus (the virus most frequently transmitted before birth)
- Dental caries
- Type 1 diabetes
- Diphtheria
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Fifth disease
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Influenza
- Intussusception (medical disorder)
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Leukemia
- Measles
- Meningitis
- Molluscum contagiosum
- Mumps
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)
- Pneumonia
- Polio
- Rheumatic fever
- Rickets
- Roseola
- Rubella
- Sever's disease
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- Volvulus
- Whooping cough
- Hepatitis A
- Scarlet fever (Scarletina)
- Lyme disease
- Xerophthalmia