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3 What Are Promising Areas for Investment to Support Young Children?
Pages 13-16

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... In addition, multiple workshop speakers highlighted the nature of two generational approaches and investing in the caregiver to best leverage that relationship to fully support child development. Investments That Are Grounded in the Research, Culturally Responsive, and Coordinated to Maximize Results Children require integrated support and coordinated investments.
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... On the contrary, he explained that strong evidence links maternal depression to less adequate prenatal care, reduced breastfeeding, child undernutrition, child diarrhea, less adequate health care, and increased family stress, among other negative outcomes (Rahman, 2013; Rahman et al., 2008, 2013a,b; Wachs and Rahman, 2012)
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... noted that caregivers with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) , when ill, miss work, have more extensive medical expenses, and are often taken care of by the very children they are meant to be providing care for, leading to possible increases in caregiver mental health issues, including depression and anxiety.
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... . According to Emma Pearson of the Universiti Brunei Darussalam, this program allows children in minority groups who have been struggling in mainstream education to use their mother tongue during the preschool years and for the first 3 years of primary school.
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