Health and Education in Early Childhood

Predictors, Interventions, and Policies

Arthur J. Reynolds, Arthur J. Rolnick, Judy A. Temple

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781107038349
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316056400
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Developmental Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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. Leading researchers in the multidisciplinary fields of early learning and human capital formation explore the themes of the integration of health and education in promoting young children's well-being; the timing of influences on child development; and the focus on multiple levels of strategies to promote healthy early development. Through this, a unique framework is provided to better understand how early childhood health and education predictors and interventions contribute to well-being at individual, family, community and societal levels, and to policy development. Key topics addressed in the chapters include nutritional status, parenting, cognitive development and school readiness, conduct problems and antisocial behavior, obesity, and well-being in later childhood and adulthood.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Contributors
• Foreword: Health, education, and early childhood development
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction and overview
• Part I Effects of health disparities on child development and throughout the life course
• Part II Effects of health interventions on child development and throughout the life course
• Part III Effects of health and education policy on child development
• Call to action. Human capital: challenges and opportunity
• Name index
• Subject index