A/HRC/22/31 with other children. The effective registration of deaths is also essential for tracking population size and causes of mortality and for planning health interventions. E. Parents and caregivers 83. Parents and caregivers have an essential role in the upbringing of children, and States should support them in their responsibilities. Parents and other caregivers are the most important parties in the early diagnosis and primary care of small children, and the most important protective factor against high-risk behaviours in adolescents, such as substance use and unsafe sexual relations. Parents and caregivers also play a central role in promoting healthy child development, protecting children from harm due to accidents, dangerous games, injuries and violence, and mitigating the negative effects of risk behaviours. Children’s socialization processes, which are crucial for understanding and adjusting to the world in which they grow up, are deeply influenced by parents and caregivers. 84. Taking the child’s evolving capacity into account, parents should nurture, protect and help the child to grow and develop in a healthy manner. The responsibilities of parents and caregivers include the adoption of non-violent child-rearing practices, the promotion of healthy forms of behaviour and appropriate health-care-seeking, and support for children in making decisions, including those relating to their health. Information about child health should be provided to all parents and caregivers in accordance with article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. F. Education 85. There are strong links between the right to education and the right to health. Good health promotes better educational attainment; conversely, higher levels of education have a positive impact on the child’s health. Improvements in girls’ and women’s education improve child survival, especially when implemented with poverty reduction programmes. 86. Article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child highlights children’s need for information on all aspects of health education to realize their right to health and to enable them to make informed choices in relation to lifestyle and access to health services. Information and life skills education should address, inter alia, comprehensive sexuality education, healthy eating and the promotion of physical activity, accident and injury prevention, sanitation, and the dangers of tobacco and psychoactive substance use. It should encompass appropriate information about the right of the child to health, the obligations of Governments, and how and where to obtain access to health information and services. 87. Schools have an essential role to play in health promotion. Information should be provided as a core part of school curricula, through health services and in other settings targeting children who are not in school. Health information materials should be designed in collaboration with children and disseminated in a wide range of public settings and social media. G. International cooperation 88. States have obligations not only to implement the right of the child to health within their own territory but also to contribute through international cooperation to global implementation. Article 24.4 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child requires States and inter-State agencies to pay particular attention to child health priorities in the poorest parts of the population and in developing States. States have a responsibility to cooperate in 16