scholarly journals A New Framework for Childhood Health Promotion: The Role of Policies and Programs in Building Capacity and Foundations of Early Childhood Health

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (9) ◽  
pp. 1688-1696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamila B. Mistry ◽  
Cynthia S. Minkovitz ◽  
Anne W. Riley ◽  
Sara B. Johnson ◽  
Holly A. Grason ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Childhood Health ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Early Childhood Health ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
New Framework

scholarly journals The Role of the Project “Our Children: Windows of Opportunities” in Early Childhood Health Promotion

Psychology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 06 (07) ◽  
pp. 880-884
Author(s):  
Danielle Freitas Alvim de Castro ◽  
Anna Maria Chiesa ◽  
Lislaine Aparecida Fracolli ◽  
Lívia Keismanas Ávila
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Childhood Health ◽  
Early Childhood Health

scholarly journals Garden-based interventions and early childhood health: an umbrella review

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara R. Skelton ◽  
Chenery Lowe ◽  
Daniel A. Zaltz ◽  
Sara E. Benjamin-Neelon
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Umbrella Review ◽  
Childhood Health ◽  
Child Health Outcomes ◽  
Early Childhood Health ◽  
Effective Components

Abstract Background Garden-based interventions show promise for improving not only child nutrition, but other indicators of child health. Yet, existing systematic reviews of garden-based interventions often focus on one particular health outcome or setting, creating a need to holistically summarize review-level evidence on the role of garden-based interventions in early childhood. To fill this gap, we performed an umbrella review of garden-based interventions to examine their role in early childhood health promotion for children ages 6 years and younger, examining effective components of garden-based interventions and critically evaluating existing evidence. Methods We searched the following databases: PubMed, PubMed, PsycINFO, ERIC, CINAHL, Embase, Scopus, OVID-Agricola, and CAB Direct, limiting to reviews published from 1990 to August 2019. Of the 9457 references identified, we included a total of 16 unique reviews for analysis. Results Across reviews, garden based-interventions were most effective at improving nutrition-related outcomes for children, including nutritional status and fruit and vegetable consumption. Few reviews examined child health outcomes of garden-based interventions that were not nutrition related, such as physical activity, or academic performance. Across settings, there was the most evidence in support of garden-based interventions conducted in home gardens, compared to evidence from early care and education or community settings. We were unable to report on most effective components of garden-based interventions due to limitations of included reviews. Conclusions Existing evidence is difficult to interpret due to methodological limitations at both the review and primary study level. Therefore, the lack of evidence for certain child health outcomes should not necessarily be interpreted as an absence of an effect of garden-based interventions for specific outcomes, but as a product of these limitations. Given the breadth of evidence for garden-based interventions to improve a number of dimensions of health with older children and adult populations, we highlight areas of future research to address evidence gaps identified in this umbrella review. Further research on the role of garden-based interventions, including their impact on non-nutrition early childhood health outcomes and how effectiveness differs by setting type is necessary to fully understand their role in early childhood health promotion. PROSPERO registration CRD42019106848.

Early Childhood Health Promotion and Its Life Course Health Consequences

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 142-149.e71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Guyer ◽  
Sai Ma ◽  
Holly Grason ◽  
Kevin D. Frick ◽  
Deborah F. Perry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
Childhood Health ◽  
Early Childhood Health ◽  
Life Course Health

EARLY CHILDHOOD HEALTH AND SCHOOLING ATTAINMENT GAPS WITHIN AND ACROSS COUNTRIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 807-859 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Miller
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Childhood Health ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Early Childhood Health ◽  
Educational Investments ◽  
Policy Experiments ◽  
Early Health

This paper develops a theory of human capital to investigate the role of early childhood health in explaining the large and persistent schooling gaps observed within and across countries. Quantitative analysis using the theory and data from 98 countries shows that early health inequalities within developingcountries strongly amplify later schooling gaps— counterfactually eliminating inequalities reduces schooling Ginis by an average of 18% in developing economies but has only mild effects in richer countries. Moreover, early health inequalities are found to be an important source of schooling variation across countries— universally equating early health to the average US level reduces the cross-country standard deviation of average schooling attainment by over 40%. Additional policy experiments reveal that the gains from early health interventions tend to be amplified by later educational investments in developing economies, while those targeting school-aged children may be limited if early health conditions are ignored.

scholarly journals Mothers' Care: Reversing Early Childhood Health Shocks Through Parental Investments

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Bellés-Obrero ◽  
Antonio Cabrales ◽  
Sergi Jimenez-Martin ◽  
Judit Vall-Castello
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Health Shocks ◽  
Childhood Health ◽  
Parental Investments ◽  
Early Childhood Health
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