This book presents conceptual issues, research findings, and program and policy implications in promoting well-being in health and education in the first five years of life. Leading researchers in the multidisciplinary fields of early learning and human capital formation explore…
"Health and Education in Early Childhood presents conceptual issues, research findings, and program and policy implications in promoting well-being in health and education in the first five years of life."--Verso de la page de titre
How gains from early childhood experiences are initiated, increased, sustained, and affect life-course development are fundamental to science and society. They also have increasing policy relevance, given public investments in early learning programs and the need to measure thei…
"This volume emphasizes not only key interventions and practices over the first decade of life that promote healthy development but elements and strategies through which learning gains can be enhanced by schools, families, communities, and public institutions. Scaling and expans…