Sentences with phrase «developmental health outcomes»

The Indigenous Parenting and Family research team works to discover the most effective ways to help Indigenous parents, children and families get the best start in the early years, promoting positive developmental health outcomes.

The developmental health outcomes were measured by parent report, direct child assessment or teacher report.

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Human milk is especially important for vulnerable, at - risk infants, for optimal health and developmental outcomes.

Developmental reviews are such an important opportunity to ensure best health outcomes across the board from: dental and maternal mental health, parenting and attachment, to reduction of obesity, improved diet, and acheiving school readiness to name a few.

Whileparticipation inseveral home visiting programs is effective at improving children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes (e.g., Early Head Start, The Nurse Family Partnership and The Infant Health and Developmental program), few home visiting programs have been able to significantly improve pregnancy outcomes and reductions in child maltreatment have been found for some models, but not for others.

«We found small but meaningful differences in developmental outcomes between late preterm infants and full term groups, which if applied to larger populations, may have potentially significant long term public health implications,» says lead author Prachi Shah, M.D., a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

In their current state of development, home visitation programs do not appear to represent the low - cost solution to child health and developmental problems that policymakers and the public have hoped for.5 However, information that is accumulating about long - term outcomes and effective practices may lead to the development of replicable programs that are capable of producing modest but consistent and positive results for participating target families.

Several reviews have concluded that home visiting can be an effective strategy to improve the health and developmental outcomes of children from socially disadvantaged families.2 - 4 However, effects have not been found consistently and some studies have reported no impact.

We have long known that interactions with parents, caregivers, and other adults are important in a child's life, but new evidence shows that these relationships actually shape brain circuits and lay the foundation for later developmental outcomes, from academic performance to mental health and interpersonal skills.»

The study's senior author, Associate Professor Natasha Nassar from the University of Sydney Menzies Centre for Health Policy said: «While the association between being born earlier — lower gestational age — and poorer developmental outcomes is well established, our results revealed that poor development is further exacerbated in the case of planned birth, where a considered decision made to deliver an infant determines gestational age.

Take a two - generation approach to advancing equitable health and developmental outcomes for all families with children prenatal to five years.

Although economic, cultural, and political pressures often confound decisions about infant feeding, the AAP firmly adheres to the position that breastfeeding ensures the best possible health as well as the best developmental and psychosocial outcomes for the infant.

In consideration of the extensively published evidence for improved health and developmental outcomes in breastfed infants and their mothers, a strong position on behalf of breastfeeding is warranted.

Texas Ten Steps promotes optimal nutritional and developmental outcomes for the newborn and optimal health outcomes for babies and their mothers.

Poor nutrition during these critical growth and developmental periods places infants and children at risk of impaired emotional and cognitive development and adverse health outcomes.

The effects of breastfeeding on children's development have important implications for both public - health policies and for the design of targeted early intervention strategies to improve the developmental outcomes of children at risk as a result of biological (e.g., prematurity) or social adversity (e.g., poverty).

«We argue that across your lifespan, you go from «broad learning» (learning many skills as an infant or child) to «specialized learning,» (becoming an expert in a specific area) when you begin working, and that leads to cognitive decline initially in some unfamiliar situations, and eventually in both familiar and unfamiliar situations,» Wu said.In the paper, Wu argues that if we reimagine cognitive aging as a developmental outcome, it opens the door for new tactics that could dramatically improve the cognitive health and quality of life for aging adults.

These family conditions have been shown to predict poor health and developmental outcomes, according to the authors.

For premature infants, adequate growth while in the neonatal intensive care unit is an indicator of better long - term health and developmental outcomes.

One baby was born premature, but all four children «were shown to have normal health and developmental outcomes» at follow - up visits over the next seven years.

Its strategy draws on advances in the biological, behavioral, and social sciences to: (1) identify causal mechanisms that influence developmental trajectories; (2) formulate theories of change about how to produce better outcomes; and (3) design and test new intervention approaches and measure their effectiveness in reducing barriers to learning and strengthening the foundations of lifelong physical and mental health.

Current Research Selman's research builds upon the developmental and cultural antecedents of our human capacity to form and maintain positive social relationships, and the application of these capacities to the prevention of negative psychological, social, and health outcomes for youth.

Families» engagement in children's learning at home and in early care and education programs can impact lifelong health, developmental and academic outcomes.

Washington, D.C. (December 6, 2017)-- The Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI) today announced funding for four new research grants focused on the effects of human - animal interaction on human health, including social skills outcomes for children with autism spectrum disorder; the physical and developmental health of children living with family pets; and the mental health and well - being of seniors living alone.

By participating in the trainings, participants will learn helpful strategies to coordinate care, streamline the referral process, improve communication, save time, and provide higher quality care and EI services; parents will be more satisfied with the care they receive through their primary care medical homes; and children will receive more timely and coordinated services that will improve health and developmental outcomes.

Home visiting programs aim to help low - income parents enhance their parenting skills and improve a host of early health and developmental outcomes for young children.

Experiences in the first 1000 days of life have a crucial influence on child development and health.1 Appropriate early child development (including physical, social and emotional, language and cognitive domains) has consistently been shown to be associated with good health and educational outcomes in childhood and consequent health and employment outcomes in adulthood.2 — 4 Adopting a life course approach, including early intervention, is essential, 5 and investment is therefore needed in effective prenatal and postnatal services to optimise child health, well - being and developmental resilience.6

This then established the relationship between neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES) and a number of children's health and developmental outcomes.9 Longitudinal research suggested structural characteristics such as poverty and demography were mediated through community - level social processes that influenced the functioning of families and children.10, 11 Today, however, there is still limited understanding of the modifiable community - level factors likely to benefit outcomes for young children despite socioecological frameworks suggesting there are multiple levels of influence (individual, family, community) on early child development (ECD).12, 13 Investigating these influences is thought best undertaken through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods that can test these multiple influences on ECD.14, 15

Conclusions From very early childhood, social disadvantage was associated with poorer outcomes across most measures of physical and developmental health and showed no evidence of either strengthening or attenuating at older compared to younger ages.

The SNHV programme aimed to improve family, maternal, and child health and developmental outcomes measured when children turned 2 years old.

We hypothesised that compared with women who received usual universal care, women who received the MECSH programme would report improved family, maternal and child health and developmental outcomes.

Relatively little is known about social gradients in developmental outcomes, with much of the research employing dichotomous socioeconomic indicators such as family poverty.2 5 16 Thus, it is unclear whether poor developmental outcomes exhibit threshold effects (evident only when a certain level of disadvantage is exceeded), gradient effects (linear declines with increasing disadvantage) or accelerating effects (progressively stronger declines with increasing disadvantage) as suggested by some recent studies.17 — 19 Further, most research has examined socioeconomic patterns for single childhood outcomes1 or for multiple outcomes within the physical3 4 or developmental17 18 20 health domains.

Halford — Couples, Parenting & the Well - being of Children Hayes — Longitudinal Insights into the Power of Parenting: From Early Childhood to the Middle Years & Beyond Kohl — Improving Quality of Care Through Implementation of Evidence - based Interventions in Real World Settings Calam — Enhancing Impact and Reach with Vulnerable Families Love — Enhancing Impact & Reach with Vulnerable Families Sanders — Triple P & Complex Cases: Enhancing Outcomes with Vulnerable Families Sanders — Past, Present and Future Directions for Evidence - based Parenting Interventions Tonge — Mental Health of Young People with Developmental Disabilities

This study aims to identify modifiable (potentially amenable to change through policy) community - level factors that influence children's health and developmental outcomes in the 25 areas of high and low disadvantage across Australia.

In addition to the normal developmental challenges of adolescence, young people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are at risk of a range of negative psychological outcomes including depression, behavioural problems and lower health - related quality of life.

Healthy child development is the foundation for human capital and the basis for future community and economic development.1 A significant body of convergent research emphasises the importance of the prenatal and early years for health and developmental outcomes throughout the life course.2 For a growing number of children, suboptimal developmental trajectories are well established by the time they start school, and become increasingly difficult and costly to modify with the passage of time.3 Thus, investing in young children is important for the prevention of disease later in life and contributes to their full participation in society as healthy and productive adults.4, 5

Understanding how health service contacts can be enhanced to provide support for parents to achieve the best possible developmental outcomes for their children is necessary but challenging.

Alongside this research, there is intervention, epidemiological, sociological and qualitative evidence all suggesting that local environments are important in supporting the family capacity necessary to raise children in ways that promote good developmental outcomes.6, 7 The neighbourhoods or communities in which people live appears to impact health and well - being.8 While «neighbourhood» is often used in other studies, in the Australian context «neighbourhood» and «community» are often used interchangeably (these terms are further defined on page 9).7 The research into neighbourhood effects on children was originally motivated by the observation that disadvantage seemed geographically concentrated and intergenerational.

Exposure to adverse early - life environments is associated with a range of negative developmental outcomes, including poor mental and physical health and atypical social functioning.

Children who experience poverty, particularly during early life or for an extended period, are at risk of a host of adverse health and developmental outcomes through their life course.1 Poverty has a profound effect on specific circumstances, such as birth weight, infant mortality, language development, chronic illness, environmental exposure, nutrition, and injury.

Bright Futures, the AAP health promotion initiative, provides resources for pediatricians to detect both ACEs and adverse developmental outcomes.36 Programs like Reach Out and Read, in which pediatricians distribute books and model reading, simultaneously promote emergent literacy and parent — child relationships through shared reading.37, 38 However, ACEs can not be addressed in isolation and require collaborative efforts with partners in the education, home visitation, and other social service sectors in synergistic efforts to strengthen families.29 In this way, programs like Help Me Grow39 that create streamlined access to early childhood services for at - risk children can play a critical role in building an integrated system that connects families to needed resources to enhance the development of vulnerable children.

Contextual factors, notably the family environment and wider community, are also important because they may moderate the developmental effects of child maltreatment, thereby accounting for some of the heterogeneity in the outcomes associated with abuse and neglect (Zielinski and Bradshaw, 2006; Berry, 2007); the extent to which children who get hit experience impaired health or development depends on its frequency and whether it occurs in a low - warmth / high - criticism environment (DoH, 1995).

By focusing on families most at risk, programs seek to diminish disparities in health and developmental outcomes.

In this review, we limit our discussion to the use of preschool home - based parenting support to enhance developmental, health, and safety outcomes.

Finally, we present the joint effects of family type, social class, and control factors and developmental and concurrent risks on children's health outcomes.

Rooted in child social, emotional and behavioral development, Touchpoints seeks to improve parent - provider relationships, improve provider relationships with each other, enhance parent - infant relationships, moderate parental stress, normalize parent's perceptions of their child's behavior, increase well - child care adherence, improve infant developmental outcomes, improve maternal mental health indicators, and encourage longer breastfeeding.

Home visiting programs (HVPs) aim to help low - income parents enhance their parenting skills and improve a host of early health and developmental outcomes for young children.

Whileparticipation inseveral home visiting programs is effective at improving children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes (e.g., Early Head Start, The Nurse Family Partnership and The Infant Health and Developmental program), few home visiting programs have been able to significantly improve pregnancy outcomes and reductions in child maltreatment have been found for some models, but not for others.

Several reviews have concluded that home visiting can be an effective strategy to improve the health and developmental outcomes of children from socially disadvantaged families.2 - 4 However, effects have not been found consistently and some studies have reported no impact.

This reduction in the ORs reflects the degree to which the social, demographic, concurrent, and developmental life - course risks mediate the connection between family type and children's health outcomes.