Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course

MM Black, SP Walker, LCH Fernald, CT Andersen… - The lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Early childhood development programmes vary in coordination and quality, with inadequate
and inequitable access, especially for children younger than 3 years. New estimates, based …

The stunting syndrome in develo** countries

AJ Prendergast, JH Humphrey - Paediatrics and international child …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Linear growth failure is the most common form of undernutrition globally. With an estimated
165 million children below 5 years of age affected, stunting has been identified as a major …

Inequality in early childhood: risk and protective factors for early child development

SP Walker, TD Wachs, S Grantham-McGregor… - The lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
Inequality between and within populations has origins in adverse early experiences.
Developmental neuroscience shows how early biological and psychosocial experiences …

Long‐term consequences of stunting in early life

KG Dewey, K Begum - Maternal & child nutrition, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This review summarizes the impact of stunting, highlights recent research findings,
discusses policy and programme implications and identifies research priorities. There is …

The impoverished gut—a triple burden of diarrhoea, stunting and chronic disease

RL Guerrant, MD DeBoer, SR Moore… - Nature reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
More than one-fifth of the world's population live in extreme poverty, where a lack of safe
water and adequate sanitation enables high rates of enteric infections and diarrhoea to …

Maternal nutrition and birth outcomes

K Abu-Saad, D Fraser - Epidemiologic reviews, 2010 - academic.oup.com
In this review, the authors summarize current knowledge on maternal nutritional
requirements during pregnancy, with a focus on the nutrients that have been most commonly …

Advancing Early Childhood Development: From Science to Scale 1: Early childhood development coming of age: Science through the life course

MM Black, SP Walker, LCH Fernald… - Lancet (London …, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Early childhood development programmes vary in coordination and quality, with inadequate
and inequitable access, especially for children younger than 3 years. New estimates, based …

Early childhood stimulation benefits adult competence and reduces violent behavior

SP Walker, SM Chang, M Vera-Hernández… - …, 2011 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE: An estimated 178 million children younger than 5 years in develo**
countries experience linear growth retardation and are unlikely to attain their developmental …

The impact of improving nutrition during early childhood on education among Guatemalan adults

JA Maluccio, J Hoddinott, JR Behrman… - The Economic …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Using a longitudinal survey from rural Guatemala, we examine the effect of an early
childhood nutritional intervention on adult educational outcomes. An intent‐to‐treat model …

Biomarkers of environmental enteropathy, inflammation, stunting, and impaired growth in children in northeast Brazil

RL Guerrant, AM Leite, R Pinkerton, PHQS Medeiros… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Critical to the design and assessment of interventions for enteropathy and its developmental
consequences in children living in impoverished conditions are non-invasive biomarkers …