Health Sciences 4250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Conditional Cash Transfer, Integrated Child Development Services, Phytase
27 Sep 2016
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Reading 6: strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million. 4 risks: stunting, iodine deficiency, iron deficiency/anemia, inadequate cognitive stimulation. 4 potential risks based on epidemiological evidence: maternal depression, violence exposure, environmental contamination and malaria. Most successful programmes: targeted to younger and disadvantaged children: provide direct learning experiences to children and families. 2: have a longer duration, high quality and intensity. 5. integrated with family support, health, nutrition, educational systems and services. To achieve the mdg goal of reducing poverty and ensuring primary school completion, we should consider expanding high quality, cost effective early childhood development programmes. Child-development is: the ordered emergence of independent skills of sensori-motor, cognitive language, and social-emotional functioning. These programmes are for children with: low birth rate, developmental delays and low- income disadvantaged environments. Improving diets of pregnant women, infants and children prevent stunting. Improvement in motor development with exclusive breastfeeding.
