Abstract:
:An estimated 200 million children worldwide fail to meet their development potential due to poverty, poor health and unstimulating environments. Missing developmental milestones has lasting effects on adult human capital. Africa has a large burden of risk factors for poor child development. The objective of this paper is to identify scope for improvement at the country level in three domains--nutrition, environment, and mother-child interactions. We used nationally representative data from large-scale surveys, data repositories and country reports from 2000 to 2014. Overall, there was heterogeneity in performance across domains, suggesting that each country faces distinct challenges in addressing risk factors for poor child development. Data were lacking for many indicators, especially in the mother-child interaction domain. There is a clear need to improve routine collection of high-quality, country-level indicators relevant to child development to assess risk and track progress.
journal_name
J Dev Orig Health Disjournal_title
Journal of developmental origins of health and diseaseauthors
Ford ND,Stein ADdoi
10.1017/S2040174415001427subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-04-01 00:00:00pages
197-217issue
2eissn
2040-1744issn
2040-1752pii
S2040174415001427journal_volume
7pub_type
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