Effective interventions and strategies for improving early child development
SOURCE: British Medical Journal
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2015
TITLE AUTHOR(S): B.Daelmans, M.M.Black, J.Lombardi, J.Lucas, L.Richter, K.Silver, P.Britto, H.Yoshikawa, R.Perez-Escamilla, H.MacMillan, T.Dua, R.R.Bouhouch, Z.A.Bhutta, G.L.Darmstadt, N.Rao
KEYWORDS: EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT (ECD), INTERVENTION
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 8952
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/1673
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/1673
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2015
TITLE AUTHOR(S): B.Daelmans, M.M.Black, J.Lombardi, J.Lucas, L.Richter, K.Silver, P.Britto, H.Yoshikawa, R.Perez-Escamilla, H.MacMillan, T.Dua, R.R.Bouhouch, Z.A.Bhutta, G.L.Darmstadt, N.Rao
KEYWORDS: EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT (ECD), INTERVENTION
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 8952
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/1673
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/1673
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Abstract
This article synthesises evidence about effective interventions and strategies to improve early child development, and call for it to be included in a new global strategy on women's, children's, and adolescents' health.-
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