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Objectives: We aimed to produce quantitative estimates of the associations between 4 domains of child development and linear growth during 3 periods: before birth, early infancy, and later infancy. We also aimed to determine whether several factors attenuated these associations.
Results: Linear growth was significantly associated with language, motor, and personal-social development but not socioemotional development or executive function. For language, the pooled adjusted estimate of the association with length-for-age z score (LAZ) at 6 months was 0.13 0.02 SD, and with ΔLAZ from 6 to 18 months it was 0.11 0.03 SD. For motor, these estimates were 0.16 0.02 SD and 0.22 0.03 SD, respectively. In 1412 children measured at birth, estimates of the association with LAZ at birth were similar (0.07-0.16 SD for language and 0.09-0.18 SD for motor development). These associations were weaker or absent in certain subsets of children with high levels of developmental stimulation or mothers who received nutritional supplementation.
Conclusions: Growth faltering during any period from before birth to 18 months is associated with poor development of language and motor skills. Interventions to provide developmental stimulation or maternal supplementation may protect children who are faltering in growth from poor language and motor development.
A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Davis, shows that caregiving programs are five times more effective than nutrition programs in supporting smarter, not just taller, children in low- and middle-income countries.
Global health programs typically focus on preventing stunting, when children are not growing in height the way they should for their age. Stunted growth has also been associated with lower than average school achievement and cognitive scores.
Presented here is an overview of the pathway from early nutrient deficiency to long-term brain function, cognition, and productivity, focusing on research from low- and middle-income countries. Animal models have demonstrated the importance of adequate nutrition for the neurodevelopmental processes that occur rapidly during pregnancy and infancy, such as neuron proliferation and myelination. However, several factors influence whether nutrient deficiencies during this period cause permanent cognitive deficits in human populations, including the child's interaction with the environment, the timing and degree of nutrient deficiency, and the possibility of recovery. These factors should be taken into account in the design and interpretation of future research. Certain types of nutritional deficiency clearly impair brain development, including severe acute malnutrition, chronic undernutrition, iron deficiency, and iodine deficiency. While strategies such as salt iodization and micronutrient powders have been shown to improve these conditions, direct evidence of their impact on brain development is scarce. Other strategies also require further research, including supplementation with iron and other micronutrients, essential fatty acids, and fortified food supplements during pregnancy and infancy.
Dr. Prado's research focuses on nutrition and child development. Her research interests also include caregiving, health and other influences on child development in low-resource settings, evaluating programs and policies to support children to achieve their developmental potential, and cross-cultural developmental and cognitive assessment. She directs the Translational Research in Early Life Learning for Impact at Scale (TRELLIS) lab. Like a vine, children need nurturing care and strong support structures to ensure their healthy growth and development to their full potential. Parents and caregivers are the gardeners that tend and nurture the vine so that it can grow and flourish. Policies and programs, from the national to community level, are the trellis that supports the vine to grow. At the TRELLIS lab, we work with collaborators from across the globe to conduct research informing how policies and programs can best support parents and caregivers to provide the nurturing care that children need to thrive. Research approaches include efficacy, effectiveness and impact evaluations, longitudinal cohort studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and methodological studies and reviews on assessing child development and cognition in low-income contexts.
Prado, E. L., Abbeddou, S., Yakes Jimenez, E., Som, J. W., Oudraogo, Z. P., Vosti, S. A., et al. (2016). Lipid-based nutrient supplements plus malaria and diarrhea treatment increase infant development scores in a cluster-randomized trial in Burkina Faso. Journal of Nutrition. (Epub ahead of print).
Beth, a student of linguistics and psychology, brought a fresh perspective to the field of nutrition. While she did not consider herself a nutrition scientist, her diverse background enriched the research she conducted and the methodologies she employed, allowing her to view issues differently from those primarily trained in nutrition and public health.
Beth prioritized kindness and relationships, possessing a natural gift for making everyone around her feel comfortable. Even during the final days of her illness, she continued mentoring her students, guiding them through their research plans and dissertations.
Like a vine, children need nurturing care and strong support structures to ensure their healthy growth and development to their full potential. Parents and caregivers are the gardeners that tend and nurture the vine so that it can grow and flourish. Policies and programs, from the national to community level, are the trellis that supports the vine to grow.
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Several local child care programs have taken the necessary steps to improve their nutrition and physical activity environment, policies, and practices. Siouxland District Health Department provided technical assistance to Apple Tree Preschool and Learning Center in Morningside, Native American Child Care Center, Mary Elizabeth Child Care Center, Crittenton Center Child Development Program, Angel House Child Care, Building Blocks Preschool and Child Care Center in Sioux City and in Sergeant Bluff, and Story Time Preschool & Child Care Center on Morningside Ave and on South Cecelia in Sioux City. All centers completed a self-assessment process, developed action plans, provided workshops on physical activity, childhood obesity, and nutrition to staff, and completed a reassessment. All centers have made great strides to improve their environment for the betterment of the children they serve. Apple Tree Preschool and Learning CenterDownload PDFBuilding Blocks Preschool & Child Care, Sioux CityDownload PDFLittle Lambs Preschool & Child Care, Sergeant Bluff
The core challenge our proposal seeks to address is how to ensure that every American family and child has access to and can benefit from high-quality, affordable ECE services in the years before kindergarten entry. Our objective is to set out a vision for increased public funding for ECE to ensure that adequate resources are invested in this period of life; doing so will aid in the fight against the reproduction of intergenerational inequities (Elango et al. 2016; Johnson and Jackson 2019) and ensure that all American children have the opportunity to reach their potential.
For a good or service where all benefits and costs of a transaction flow to only the buyer and the seller, and if neither party faces credit constraints or information problems discerning quality and there are no spillovers on others, market prices allocate resources efficiently. Where those conditions do not hold, as in ECE, market prices alone do not allocate efficiently and well-tailored policies might help to do so. Market failures in ECE occur due in three primary ways: spillovers, difficulty judging quality, and severe credit constraints on young families.
While ECE services have benefits to parents (the buyers), there are additional consequences for the children, their future neighbors, and the public. In many cases, parents will underinvest in ECE services for their children relative to what society needs in part due to these spillovers (CEA 2016a). ECE quality can be difficult or time-consuming to observe, opening up the possibility that public quality assessment, certification, and information dissemination can create value (Borowsky 2019; Herbst 2018).
The current fragmented and under-resourced ECE system results in unequal and inequitable opportunities for all children and families to have access to high-quality and affordable ECE. Availability of licensed providers is low in certain places, and nearly 60 percent of rural census tracts have been identified as child care deserts (Malik et al. 2018). Furthermore, 60 percent of American Indian/Alaska Native and Hispanic families live in areas with little supply compared to about half of non-Hispanic white families (Malik et al. 2018). In 2019 more than three-quarters of families that searched for ECE reported difficulty finding it and more than three-quarters of those families said the main problem was either cost, lack of open slots, or quality (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES] 2021). Recent research points to the lack of both affordability and access for many Black and Hispanic families.5 Among those who work full time, 69 percent of Black parents and 72 percent of Hispanic parents live in areas with unaffordable full-time center-based care (i.e., there is only center-based care priced at more than 7 percent of their incomes) compared to 60 percent of white parents. For families with incomes below 200 percent of the FPL, the price of full-time center-based care averages 28 percent of their incomes (Baldigam Maura et al. 2018).
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