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Child development: risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries
Susan P. Walker,Theodore D. Wachs,Julie Meeks Gardner,Betsy Lozoff,Gail A. Wasserman,Ernesto Pollitt,Julie A. Carter +6 more
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The evidence is sufficient to warrant interventions for malaria, intrauterine growth restriction, maternal depression, exposure to violence, and exposure to heavy metals, including iron deficiency anaemia.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2007-01-13. It has received 1869 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Malnutrition & Poison control.read more
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Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries
Robert E. Black,Cesar G. Victora,Susan P. Walker,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Parul Christian,Mercedes de Onis,Majid Ezzati,Sally Grantham-McGregor,Sally Grantham-McGregor,Joanne Katz,Reynaldo Martorell,Ricardo Uauy +11 more
TL;DR: It is estimated that undernutrition in the aggregate--including fetal growth restriction, stunting, wasting, and deficiencies of vitamin A and zinc along with suboptimum breastfeeding--is a cause of 3·1 million child deaths annually or 45% of all child deaths in 2011.
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Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital.
Cesar G. Victora,Linda S. Adair,Caroline H.D. Fall,Pedro C. Hallal,Reynaldo Martorell,Linda Richter,Harshpal Singh Sachdev +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that damage suffered in early life leads to permanent impairment, and might also affect future generations, as undernutrition is associated with lower human capital and its prevention will probably bring about important health, educational, and economic benefits.
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No health without mental health.
Martin Prince,Vikram Patel,Shekhar Saxena,Mario Maj,Joanna Maselko,Michael R. Phillips,Atif Rahman +6 more
TL;DR: Mental health affects progress towards the achievement of several Millennium Development Goals, such as promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women, reduction of child mortality, improvement of maternal health, and reversal of the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities
TL;DR: Mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) disorders—which include depression, conduct disorder, and substance abuse—affect large numbers of young people.
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Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course
Maureen M. Black,Maureen M. Black,Susan P. Walker,Lia C. H. Fernald,Christopher T Andersen,Ann M. DiGirolamo,Chunling Lu,Dana Charles McCoy,Günther Fink,Yusra Ribhi Shawar,Jeremy Shiffman,Amanda E. Devercelli,Quentin Wodon,Emily Vargas-Barón,Sally Grantham-McGregor +14 more
TL;DR: Recent scientific progress and global commitments to early childhood development are examined, with new neuroscientific evidence linking early adversity and nurturing care with brain development and function throughout the life course.
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Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
TL;DR: The concepts of power analysis are discussed in this paper, where Chi-square Tests for Goodness of Fit and Contingency Tables, t-Test for Means, and Sign Test are used.
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From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
TL;DR: From Neurons to Neighborhoods as discussed by the authors presents the evidence about "brain wiring" and how children learn to learn to speak, think, and regulate their behavior, and examines the effect of the climate-family, child care, community-within which the child grows.
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Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries
Sally Grantham-McGregor,Yin Bun Cheung,Santiago Cueto,Paul Glewwe,Linda Richter,Barbara J. Strupp +5 more
TL;DR: Two factors with available worldwide data—the prevalence of early childhood stunting and the number of people living in absolute poverty—are identified as indicators of poor development and show that both indicators are closely associated with poor cognitive and educational performance in children.