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Capabilities, human flourishing, and the health gap
Published in Sridhar Venkatapuram, Alex Broadbent, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health, 2023
What happens to children in the early years has a profound effect on their life chances and hence their health as adults. At the heart of it is empowerment, developing the capacities for, and having the conditions that allow, enjoyment of basic freedoms that give life meaning. Early child experiences have a determining influence on that development. Early child development is influenced in part by quality of parenting or caring from others, which, in turn, are influenced by the circumstances in which parenting takes place.
Ante-natal care, screening and child health surveillance
Published in Jackie Musgrave, Health and Wellbeing for Babies and Children, 2022
The role of the Health Visitor was first created in the 1860s (Adams 2012) and their focus then, as now, was on public health for children and families. Over the last 150 years, knowledge and understanding of child development has increased, and importantly, it became understood that delays or ‘abnormalities’ in expected levels of development for babies and young children could be a sign that there was difficulty or medical condition. As Health Visitors' role is to be involved in improving the health of babies, children and families, and they have expertise in assessing babies and children's progress with their development, their role extended to include child health surveillance.
General assessment of children and young people
Published in Miriam Orcutt, Clare Shortall, Sarah Walpole, Aula Abbara, Sylvia Garry, Rita Issa, Alimuddin Zumla, Ibrahim Abubakar, Handbook of Refugee Health, 2021
Sylvia Garry, Joia de Sa, Emma Sherwood, Sarah May Johnson, Amy Potter, Jess Atkinson
The healthcare sector has a key role to play in promoting early child development – not only by the direct provision of health and nutrition interventions but also by promoting good parental mental health, supporting responsive parenting practices and encouraging play.
Gross motor disorders in pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and survivors: A systematic review
Published in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, 2022
Juliette Marie Brito-Suárez, Fernanda Camacho-Juárez, Carlos Maximiliano Sánchez-Medina, Gabriela Hernández-Pliego, Claudia Gutiérrez-Camacho
Gross motor skills are those that use large muscles that allow body movement: walking, running, jumping, and balance. These movements are essential to child development as they lead to the achievement of school activities, play, social interaction7 and allow the establishment of patterns of physical activity that remain until adulthood8. During cancer treatment, some basic gross motor skills are affected, mostly those required to climb, ball skills (aiming and catching), as well as to keep balance9. In survivors, disorders in strength and knee and leg flexibility until 20 years after treatment have been reported10; in addition to low adherence to physical activity recommendations and inactive lifestyle with widely described metabolic and cardiovascular risks11.
Effects of health promotion program on maternal attachment, parenting self-efficacy, infant development: a randomised controlled trial
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2022
Figen Turk Dudukcu, Fatma Tas Arslan
It signifies a loving bond between mother and baby. Attachment is one of the most important promoting factors in healthy infant development (Scharfe 2012). Mothers who have higher maternal attachment levels were sensitive, tender and participating parents, affecting the development of the baby positively in their early infancy period (Alhusen et al. 2013). Healthy attachment plays a key role in infant development (Brumariu 2015). Child development is defined as an orderly progression of skills (Grantham-McGregor et al. 2007). Parenting interventions early in life have beneficial effects on children’s developments that can extend into adulthood (Engle et al. 2011). Improving maternal- infant attachment positively affects both infant development (Maas et al. 2016) and parental self-efficacy (Branjerdporn et al. 2017; Delavari et al. 2018). A study that examines the relationship between attachment and parental self-efficacy are recommended (Delavari et al. 2018).
Delivering Take Root to Military Families with a Child 0-to 3-Years-Old: Examining Feasibility and Proof-of-Concept
Published in Military Behavioral Health, 2022
Ryan P. Chesnut, Terri L. Rudy, Janet A. Welsh, Daniel F. Perkins
Given the indispensable role parents play in shaping children’s development across the first 3 years (Schore, 2016), parents have been repeatedly identified as the primary target of preventive and clinical interventions that are designed to promote healthy child development (Briesmeister & Schaefer, 2007; Prinz, 2016; Sanders, 2019). These parent-focused interventions (PFIs), also referred to as evidence-based parenting support (Sanders & Prinz, 2018), vary with respect to their theoretical underpinnings (e.g., social learning, attachment), delivery modality (e.g., individual therapy, group-based sessions, online content), targeted child age range (e.g., infancy, preschool, adolescence), intensity (e.g., brief, light-touch programs; multi-year, home-visiting programs), and level of professional support (e.g., self-directed, therapist-guided) (Prinz, 2016; Salari & Enebrink, 2018). Despite this variability, PFIs have the same overarching goals of enhancing parents’ efficacy and satisfaction, cultivating parents’ competencies and skills, and strengthening the parent-child relationship (Prinz, 2016).