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Developmental Health

Table of Contents

Overview

  1. The developmental health perspective
    1. Early childhood development is shaped by early experiences and contributes to later health, learning and behaviour
    2. Poverty and child development

Research

  1. Research related to the developmental health perspective
    1. Studying populations
      1. Understanding social gradients of developmental health
      2. A global snapshot of developmental health
      3. Cuba: A country example
    2. Child poverty and developmental health
      1. Young Lives: An international study of child poverty
      2. Children's experience of poverty
      3. The Lancet series on child development in developing countries
    3. Monitoring early child development
      1. Examining early child development in low-income countries
      2. Global Monitoring Report on early childhood care and education
      3. Three examples of monitoring tools: MICS, EDI and ELDS

Links to Practice

  1. Advocacy: Making the case for investing in ECD
    1. The four cornerstones: Key strategies for investing in early child development
    2. The economic rationale
    3. Equity from the start: World Health Organization

References

  1. References

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