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Moving from Evidence to Implementation of Early Childhood Programs: Proceedings of a Workshopin Brief
Moving from Evidence to Implementation of Early Childhood Programs: Proceedings of a Workshopin Brief
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In his opening remarks, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health at SickKids in Toronto and founding director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health at the Aga Khan University, challenged participants to think about how to convert early childhood development into a global movement, framed in the context of people who have to make decisions in their daily lives with the resources that they have and the additional resources that they need. He added that the forthcoming Lancet series on early childhood development is one initiative that has the potential to firmly place child development on the global landscape.
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Generating global political priority for early childhood development requires that four strategic challenges be addressed, Shiffman continued: problem definition, positioning, coalition building, and governance. With regard to problem definition, the greater the consensus on an issue, the greater the political leverage.
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In their research on exclusive breastfeeding, Barwick and her colleagues conducted interviews and focus groups in Ethiopia and Mali, considering perspectives from mothers, program implementers, community health workers, and health extension workers. They learned that barriers to exclusive breastfeeding included a concern from mothers that babies would not develop properly if they received only breast milk.
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Cuba has 100 percent vaccination coverage and it is the first country in the world with no documented cases of congenital syphilis or mother–baby HIV transmission, noted Valdés. These achievements are a result of attention to maternal–child health programs and the intersectoral work, including emphasis on birth weight, breastfeeding, human milk banks, early stimulation, and child care, said Valdés.
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In Carabayllo, an impoverished district north of Lima, Peru, the partnership between nongovernmental organizations and local governance proves to be tremendously important in successfully scaling up programs, noted Leonid Lecca, executive director at Socios en Salud. Lecca and Rafael Álvarez, mayor of Carabayllo, spoke about their partnership to increase home visits by health workers in an area where the nearest health center is a 3-hour walk away.
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The organization is active in countries as varied as Australia, Romania, and Uganda; has sponsored a European business forum on the issue; and recently participated in the Latin American Business Leader Forum. Business support for early childhood can take the form of corporate volunteer efforts, supporting and spreading the word about family-friendly practices for employees, communicating through messaging on product packaging, strengthening social ventures and social impact financing, speaking out in the media, and advocating for policy change at every level.
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By mobilizing the science of child development the Palix Foundation engages academics, professionals, policy makers, community members, and others to raise awareness of the issues it focuses on to catalyze systems change. The Palix Foundation has spread the word via child care workers, social workers, teachers, health care providers, ministers, lawyers, and decision makers in general.
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Mental Health Research, National Insti- University of Victoria tute of Mental Health, National Institutes Ruth Perou of Health Centers for Disease Control and SPONSORS: This workshop was partially supported by Autism Tracy Costigan Prevention Speaks; the Bernard van Leer Foundation; The Bill & Melinda Research-Evaluation-Learning Unit, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Cheryl Polk Gates Foundation; the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; HighScope Educational Research FoundaGary Darmstadt tion the Fraser Mustard Institute for Human Development; Stanford University School of Medicine Eduardo de Campos Queiroz Grand Challenges Canada; HighScope Educational Research Angela Diaz Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation Foundation; the Inter-American Development Bank; the Jacobs Pia Rebello Britto Rana Hajjeh Early Childhood Development Unit, Foundation; the Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation; the National Center for Immunization and UNICEF National Institutes of Health -- Fogarty International Center, Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Jose Saavedra National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute Nestlé Nutrition Jody Heymann of Child Health and Human Development; Nestlé Nutrition Fielding School of Public Health, Lorraine Sherr University of California, Los Angeles University College London Institute; the Open Society Institute–Budapest Foundation; Gillian Huebner Andy Shih ReadyNation; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the Autism Speaks Maestral International Society for Research in Child Development; UNICEF; The U.S. Venita Kaul Karlee Silver Grand Challenges Canada Agency for International Development; and the U.S.
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