Is this Early Childhood Development Ours? Deciphering what African Parents want their Children to Learn in Early Childhood Development

What parents know and want to learn about healthy eating and body image in preschool children: a triangulated qualitative study with parents and Early Childhood Professionals

BACKGROUND Interventions for parents to encourage healthy eating in children often do not address parental feeding practices and body image development. METHODS The current study investigated what parents (of children aged 1-6 years) understand about child healthy eating and body image, and what they would like in future interventions, by using structured focus groups with parents, and indivi...

Early childhood development-global action is overdue.

In 2007, The Lancet declared that early childhood development was a global challenge of the greatest urgency. 4 years later, we have made progress, but still have far to go in making early childhood development the global priority it must be. The importance of early childhood development remains profound. As the accompanying papers in The Lancet show so clearly, the prenatal and postnatal perio...

Chapter 5: Early childhood development

Years before they set foot in school, children in poor families differ dramatically from children in richer families in their cognitive and noncognitive abilities. The differences have powerful and enduring consequences for individuals’ health, well-being, education, and longevity, as well as for the societies in which children grow into adulthood. What is the source of these consequential diff...

Review of Structural Social Determinants of Health in Early Childhood Development

Development is a dynamic and continuous phenomenon  that is under the influence of various factors forming a complicated multidimensional system together. Any impairment in these factors can lead to impaired development in children, which is one of the most common problems in children. Therefore, this study provides a brief overview of these factors and the way they affect early childhood ...

Early Childhood Development and Children with Disabilities in Developing Countries