Better Jobs and Brighter Futures

Devercelli, Amanda Epstein; Beaton-Day, Frances

doi:10.1596/35062

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“…The WHO also published their findings from their technical workshop, "Monitoring Children's Development in Primary Care Services," that details developmental terminology and strategies for pediatricians to implement in the clinic. 28 Similarly, the World Bank provides a toolkit for measuring ECD in lower-and middle-income countries (LMICs), plays an executive role on the Early Childhood Development Action Network, 87,99 provides content on the benefits of supporting ECD from a societal and economic standpoint, 100 and finances multiple ECD initiatives. 99 The IPA regularly hosts ECD workshops for pediatricians and publishes reports on their efforts to support ECD.…”

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Role of Pediatricians, Pediatric Associations, and Academic Departments in Ensuring Optimal Early Childhood Development Globally: Position Paper of the International Pediatric Association

Uchitel

Alden²,

Bhutta

et al. 2022

J Dev Behav Pediatr

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Early childhood (birth-8 years), particularly the first 3 years, is the most critical time in development because of the highly sensitive developing brain. Providing appropriate developmental care (i.e., nurturing care, as defined by the World Health Organization [WHO]) during early childhood is key to ensuring a child's holistic development. Pediatricians are expected to play a critical role in supporting early childhood development (ECD) through providing developmental services such as developmental monitoring, anticipatory guidance, screening, and referral to medical and/or community-based services when delay is identified. Pediatricians are also expected to serve as advocates within their clinics and communities for improved delivery of ECD services, such as advocating for increasing funding for ECD initiatives, increasing insurance coverage of ECD services, and working to increase other pediatricians' awareness of the principles of ECD and how to deliver developmental services. However, this does not always occur. Typically, pediatricians' training and practice emphasizes treating disease rather than enhancing ECD. Pediatricians are further hindered by a lack of uniformity across nations in guidelines for developmental monitoring and screening. In this article, we present the vision of the International Pediatric Association (IPA) of the roles that pediatricians, academic departments, medical training programs, and pediatric associations should fulfill to help support ECD, including raising ECD to higher levels of priority in routine pediatric care. First, we present the challenges that face these goals in supporting ECD. We then propose, with supportive literature, strategies and resources to overcome these challenges in collaboration with local and international stakeholders, including the IPA, the WHO, UNICEF, and the World Bank.

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confidence: 99%

Role of Pediatricians, Pediatric Associations, and Academic Departments in Ensuring Optimal Early Childhood Development Globally: Position Paper of the International Pediatric Association

Uchitel

Alden²,

Bhutta

et al. 2022

J Dev Behav Pediatr

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“…In the opposite, individuals grown up with parents who are unemployed tend to have low financial literacy. Parents have secure jobs demonstrates positive signal that they have ability to support their children for various type of education and for having bridge future (Devercelli & Beaton-Day, 2020;Bartoszuk, Deal & Yerhot, 2021). Additionally, children with well-schooled parents and educated couples could learn about knowledge and experience from each other (Mahdavi & Horton, 2014).…”

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Financial Literacy and Investment Decisions: Evidence from Pakistan

Hussain

Kijkasiwat

Rehman

et al. 2022

S. Asian J. Finance

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Developing nations experience major challenges in relation to enhancing economic growth and development, poverty alleviation, expansion of financial systems, and financial services. These countries also find it difficult to offer more accessible financial products to adults ( Van et al., 2021). Ali et al., (2015) argue that financial literacy is a significant determinant of financial satisfaction as it helps individuals to plan their spending and savings. Lopus et al., (2019) assert that financial literacy is significantly associated with improved worker productivity, decreased absenteeism, and entrepreneurial success. Gallery et al., (2011) provide evidence that financial literacy has a significant impact on pension investment

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“…These challenges are particularly stark and have a clear social gradient, with between 5–17% and 7–29% of under-5 children from low-income families left alone for at least 1 day a week in East and Southern Africa and in South Asia, respectively ( 10 ). Furthermore, the World Bank estimates that 72% of all children below primary-school-entry age need some form of childcare globally, however 59% of these children do not currently have access ( 11 ).…”

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Improving early childhood development in the context of the nurturing care framework in Kenya: A policy review and qualitative exploration of emerging issues with policy makers

Abboah-Offei

Amboka²,

Nampijja³

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionThe Nurturing Care Framework (NCF) describes “nurturing care” as the ability of nations and communities to support caregivers and provide an environment that ensures children's good health and nutrition, protects them from threats, and provides opportunities for early learning through responsive and emotionally supportive interaction. We assessed the extent to which Kenyan government policies address the components of the NCF and explored policy/decision makers' views on policy gaps and emerging issues.MethodsA search strategy was formulated to identify policy documents focusing on early childhood development (ECD), health and nutrition, responsive caregiving, opportunities for early learning and security and safety, which are key components of the NCF. We limited the search to policy documents published since 2010 when the Kenya constitution was promulgated and ECD functions devolved to county governments. Policy/decision-maker interviews were also conducted to clarify emerging gaps from policy data. Data was extracted, coded and analyzed based on the components of the NCF. Framework analysis was used for interview data with NCF being the main framework of analysis. The Jaccard's similarity coefficient was used to assess similarities between the themes being compared to further understand the challenges, successes and future plans of policy and implementation under each of the NCF domains.Results127 policy documents were retrieved from government e-repository and county websites. Of these, n = 91 were assessed against the inclusion criteria, and n = 66 were included in final analysis. The 66 documents included 47 County Integrated Development Plans (CIDPs) and 19 national policy documents. Twenty policy/decision-maker interviews were conducted. Analysis of both policy and interview data reveal that, while areas of health and nutrition have been considered in policies and county level plans (coefficients >0.5), the domains of early learning, responsive caregiving and safety and security face significant policy and implementation gaps (coefficients ≤ 0.5), particularly for the 0–3 year age group. Inconsistencies were noted between county level implementation plans and national policies in areas such as support for children with disabilities and allocation of budget to early learning and nutrition domains.ConclusionFindings indicate a strong focus on nutrition and health with limited coverage of responsive caregiving and opportunities for early learning domains. Therefore, if nurturing care goals are to be achieved in Kenya, policies are needed to support current gaps identified with urgent need for policies of minimum standards that provide support for improvements across all Nurturing Care Framework domains.

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Better Jobs and Brighter Futures

Cited by 49 publications

References 23 publications

Role of Pediatricians, Pediatric Associations, and Academic Departments in Ensuring Optimal Early Childhood Development Globally: Position Paper of the International Pediatric Association

Role of Pediatricians, Pediatric Associations, and Academic Departments in Ensuring Optimal Early Childhood Development Globally: Position Paper of the International Pediatric Association

Financial Literacy and Investment Decisions: Evidence from Pakistan

Improving early childhood development in the context of the nurturing care framework in Kenya: A policy review and qualitative exploration of emerging issues with policy makers

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