Improving Early Childhood Nurturing Care to Support Childhood Development and Adult Health
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Pediatric Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 January 2023) | Viewed by 64910
Special Issue Editor
Interests: child development; maternal and child health; global health; epidemiology
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Dear Colleagues,
Globally, it is estimated that almost 250 million children under five years of age in low-income and middle-income countries were at risk of failing to reach their full development potential in 2010. Child development plays an essential role in the individual’s lifelong results, impacting productivity, and income generation, and may even jeopardize the development of an entire nation. The pandemics may have made this scenario even more challenging. Understanding the factors involved in child development is essential for the development of public policies that can help all children to achieve their full potential.
This Special Issue will focus on the description of the magnitude of impairment in early child development around the world, as well as on the factors associated with it, with a special focus on the ones considered by World Health Organization as essential to Nurturing Care, such as malnutrition, breastfeeding, low birth weight, micronutrient deficiencies, parenting, parental education, poverty, safety, and toxic stress. Additionally, research evaluating the effect of interventions to improve child development is welcome. In addition, we would like to collect papers dealing with the effect of environmental factors on child development.
Dr. Hermano Alexandre Lima Rocha
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- child development
- nutritional status
- social determinants of health
- stress, psychological
- poverty
- educational status
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