Sentences with phrase «families during the prenatal period»
A closer look at these families during the prenatal period shows that fathers who are absent from the birth are largely absent during pregnancy as well [Figure 2.]
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Home visits are offered to at - risk families with young children, sometimes starting during the prenatal period.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study attempted to determine the effect of prenatal and infant / toddler nurse home visiting [now called Nurse Family Partnership (NFP)-RSB- on maternal and child mortality during a 2 - decade period (1990 - 2011).
Development during the prenatal period, infancy and childhood is known to influence lifelong health, 1 — 4 and the link between early - life health and adult outcomes is strong and economically meaningful.5 Promotion of optimal child development and well - being comprises early detection and treatment of whole families, and it can potentially prevent the development of behavioural and emotional problems in children and adolescents.6
During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.