STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING INEQUALITIES AND IMPROVING DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN IN LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES: The cumulative risks to which many children across the world, particularly in the developing nations are exposed to, suggest the need for intervention. Early child development programmes are designed to improve the survival, growth and development of young children, …
UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake and World Health Organization Director-General Dr Margaret Chan state in the current issue of The Lancet : “The debate between nature and nurture as determinants of early child development is over. Today we understand that the two are inextricably linked. The degree of their interdependence—and the impact of this interplay on the developing …
Patrice Engle, well known to colleagues and friends in the CEECIS Region, was Professor of Psychology and Child Development at Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo, California, where she taught since 1980. She was Associate Chair of the Psychology and Child Development Department and on the Women and Gender Studies’ Advisory Board. She taught …