Improving humanitarian health responses for children through nurturing care
Insights
Humanitarian disasters severely affect children, causing toxic stress. Integrating nurturing care interventions into health responses during emergencies is crucial for saving lives and improving child development outcomes.
Area of Science:
- Global Health
- Pediatrics
- Humanitarian Aid
Background:
- Children face significant risks, including toxic stress, during humanitarian disasters.
- Existing health sector interventions in crises often lack routine support for early child development (ECD).
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify strategies for enhancing early child development (ECD) support within humanitarian health responses.
- To improve the quality of care for children affected by humanitarian crises.
Main Methods:
- A webinar series was conducted involving key organizations like the Global Health Cluster and the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies.
- Discussions focused on strengthening nurturing care within humanitarian response frameworks.
Main Results:
- Incorporating nurturing care interventions into health responses during acute emergencies is identified as lifesaving.
- Simple, systematically applied interventions can significantly improve children's life opportunities.
Conclusions:
- Nurturing care for early child development (ECD) should be integrated into health sector responses in humanitarian emergencies.
- Effective ECD interventions contribute to individual child well-being, national recovery, and economic growth.
Abstract:
Children are disproportionately impacted by humanitarian disasters, which cause toxic stress. When a crisis overwhelms the capacity of health and social systems to meet the needs of a population, external crisis response teams working in a range of sectors may offer support to save lives and meet the affected populations' basic needs. Gaps have been identified in health sector interventions for children in humanitarian contexts, including lack of routine interventions to protect and promote early child development (ECD). To address this gap and improve the quality of humanitarian responses for girls and boys, the Global Health Cluster, Child Health Task Force, and the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies held a webinar series on Strengthening Nurturing Care in Humanitarian Response. It concluded that incorporating interventions to support nurturing care for ECD into health responses in acute phase emergencies is lifesaving. In crisis contexts, even simple interventions can be the difference between life and death, and when systematically applied, they can dramatically improve a child's life opportunities as well as national recovery and economic growth.
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