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Early childhood development: an imperative for action and measurement at scale

Experiences during early childhood shape biological and psychological structures and functions in ways that affect health, well-being and productivity throughout the life course. The science of early childhood and its long-term consequences have generated political momentum to improve early childhoo...

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Autores principales: Richter, Linda, Black, Maureen, Britto, Pia, Daelmans, Bernadette, Desmond, Chris, Devercelli, Amanda, Dua, Tarun, Fink, Günther, Heymann, Jody, Lombardi, Joan, Lu, Chunling, Naicker, Sara, Vargas-Barón, Emily
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6590994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31297254
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001302
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author Richter, Linda
Black, Maureen
Britto, Pia
Daelmans, Bernadette
Desmond, Chris
Devercelli, Amanda
Dua, Tarun
Fink, Günther
Heymann, Jody
Lombardi, Joan
Lu, Chunling
Naicker, Sara
Vargas-Barón, Emily
author_facet Richter, Linda
Black, Maureen
Britto, Pia
Daelmans, Bernadette
Desmond, Chris
Devercelli, Amanda
Dua, Tarun
Fink, Günther
Heymann, Jody
Lombardi, Joan
Lu, Chunling
Naicker, Sara
Vargas-Barón, Emily
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description Experiences during early childhood shape biological and psychological structures and functions in ways that affect health, well-being and productivity throughout the life course. The science of early childhood and its long-term consequences have generated political momentum to improve early childhood development and elevated action to country, regional and global levels. These advances have made it urgent that a framework, measurement tools and indicators to monitor progress globally and in countries are developed and sustained. We review progress in three areas of measurement contributing to these goals: the development of an index to allow country comparisons of young children’s development that can easily be incorporated into ongoing national surveys; improvements in population-level assessments of young children at risk of poor early development; and the production of country profiles of determinants, drivers and coverage for early childhood development and services using currently available data in 91 countries. While advances in these three areas are encouraging, more investment is needed to standardise measurement tools, regularly collect country data at the population level, and improve country capacity to collect, interpret and use data relevant to monitoring progress in early childhood development.
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spelling pubmed-65909942019-07-11 Early childhood development: an imperative for action and measurement at scale Richter, Linda Black, Maureen Britto, Pia Daelmans, Bernadette Desmond, Chris Devercelli, Amanda Dua, Tarun Fink, Günther Heymann, Jody Lombardi, Joan Lu, Chunling Naicker, Sara Vargas-Barón, Emily BMJ Glob Health Analysis Experiences during early childhood shape biological and psychological structures and functions in ways that affect health, well-being and productivity throughout the life course. The science of early childhood and its long-term consequences have generated political momentum to improve early childhood development and elevated action to country, regional and global levels. These advances have made it urgent that a framework, measurement tools and indicators to monitor progress globally and in countries are developed and sustained. We review progress in three areas of measurement contributing to these goals: the development of an index to allow country comparisons of young children’s development that can easily be incorporated into ongoing national surveys; improvements in population-level assessments of young children at risk of poor early development; and the production of country profiles of determinants, drivers and coverage for early childhood development and services using currently available data in 91 countries. While advances in these three areas are encouraging, more investment is needed to standardise measurement tools, regularly collect country data at the population level, and improve country capacity to collect, interpret and use data relevant to monitoring progress in early childhood development. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6590994/ /pubmed/31297254 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001302 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Devercelli, Amanda
Dua, Tarun
Fink, Günther
Heymann, Jody
Lombardi, Joan
Lu, Chunling
Naicker, Sara
Vargas-Barón, Emily
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6590994/
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