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The missing middle of childhood
Middle childhood, between six and twelve years, is a critical bridge between earlier childhood and adolescence with rapid physical and psychological transitions. Most of the world’s 2.6 billion young people, of which the middle childhood age group is a significant portion, live in low- and middle-in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10408563/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37548519 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2023.2242196 |
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author | Voss, Maj-Lis Claeson, Mariam Bremberg, Sven Peterson, Stefan Swartling Alfvén, Tobias Ndeezi, Grace |
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description | Middle childhood, between six and twelve years, is a critical bridge between earlier childhood and adolescence with rapid physical and psychological transitions. Most of the world’s 2.6 billion young people, of which the middle childhood age group is a significant portion, live in low- and middle-income countries. Many live in environments that place them at high and growing risk for mental ill-health, injuries, and adoption of risky behaviours that often lead to non-communicable diseases in later years. Still, middle childhood, the ‘missing middle,’ is omitted from global health information systems, targeted policies, and strategies. The dearth of internationally comparable and standardised indicators on middle childhood in major international development agency databases hampers age-appropriate policy and programme development. Better understanding of the needs of this increasingly vulnerable population is critical. Middle childhood needs to be an explicit focus within child-focused research and implementation. Standardised, comprehensive, and relevant indicators are required to quantify the contribution of middle childhood to the global burden of disease and to facilitate interventions, monitoring, and evaluation, to ensure that all children flourish and thrive. |
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spelling | pubmed-104085632023-08-09 The missing middle of childhood Voss, Maj-Lis Claeson, Mariam Bremberg, Sven Peterson, Stefan Swartling Alfvén, Tobias Ndeezi, Grace Glob Health Action Discussion Middle childhood, between six and twelve years, is a critical bridge between earlier childhood and adolescence with rapid physical and psychological transitions. Most of the world’s 2.6 billion young people, of which the middle childhood age group is a significant portion, live in low- and middle-income countries. Many live in environments that place them at high and growing risk for mental ill-health, injuries, and adoption of risky behaviours that often lead to non-communicable diseases in later years. Still, middle childhood, the ‘missing middle,’ is omitted from global health information systems, targeted policies, and strategies. The dearth of internationally comparable and standardised indicators on middle childhood in major international development agency databases hampers age-appropriate policy and programme development. Better understanding of the needs of this increasingly vulnerable population is critical. Middle childhood needs to be an explicit focus within child-focused research and implementation. Standardised, comprehensive, and relevant indicators are required to quantify the contribution of middle childhood to the global burden of disease and to facilitate interventions, monitoring, and evaluation, to ensure that all children flourish and thrive. Taylor & Francis 2023-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10408563/ /pubmed/37548519 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2023.2242196 Text en © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
spellingShingle | Discussion Voss, Maj-Lis Claeson, Mariam Bremberg, Sven Peterson, Stefan Swartling Alfvén, Tobias Ndeezi, Grace The missing middle of childhood |
title | The missing middle of childhood |
title_full | The missing middle of childhood |
title_fullStr | The missing middle of childhood |
title_full_unstemmed | The missing middle of childhood |
title_short | The missing middle of childhood |
title_sort | missing middle of childhood |
topic | Discussion |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10408563/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37548519 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2023.2242196 |
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