«Scientific literature on
the damaging effects of poverty on child brain development and the efficacy of early parenting interventions to support more optimal adaptive outcomes represent a rare roadmap to preserving and supporting our society's most important legacy, the developing brain,» said Dr. Joan Luby in JAMA Network.
Not exact matches
Home - visitation programs can be an effective early - intervention strategy to improve the health and well - being
of children, particularly if they are embedded in comprehensive community services to families at risk.4 Home - visitation programs are not a panacea, sufficient unto themselves to reverse or prevent the
damaging effects on children
of poverty and inadequate or inexperienced parenting.
«Equally Well», 2 the report
of the ministerial task force
of the Scottish Government on health inequalities, emphasised the well - established and persistent
damaging effects of low income and
poverty on physical health and mental health.