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Promoting Early Child Development With Interventions in Health and Nutrition: A Systematic Review
Tyler Vaivada1, Michelle F Gaffey1, Zulfiqar A Bhutta2,3
1Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and.
Pediatrics
|August 4, 2017
Summary
Effective health and nutrition interventions can improve early child development, particularly neuroprotective strategies for preterm birth. Prioritizing these interventions in infancy and childhood is crucial for optimal child development outcomes.
Area of Science:
- Child Development Research
- Public Health Interventions
- Nutritional Science
Background:
- Effective health and nutrition interventions exist for child mortality and morbidity.
- Direct evidence on their impact on cognitive, motor, and psychosocial development is limited.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review evidence on health and nutrition interventions impacting early child development.
- To identify interventions with direct measures of cognitive, motor, and psychosocial development.
Main Methods:
- Systematic review of existing literature and overviews.
- Selection of systematic reviews with plausible links to child development or direct outcome measures.
- Independent data extraction and quality assessment by reviewers.
Main Results:
- Sixty systematic reviews were analyzed, revealing limited direct measures of child development.
- Maternal food/micronutrient supplementation and strategies for infant iron deficiency anemia showed benefits.
- Early neonatal care and neuroprotective interventions for preterm birth demonstrated significant effect sizes.
Conclusions:
- Findings highlight the importance of specific interventions during critical early developmental periods.
- Recommendations for prioritizing and scaling up effective interventions are provided.
- Further research on large-scale implementation of these interventions is encouraged.
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