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Transforming Infant Wellbeing - Research, Policy and Practice for the First 1001 Critical Days (Hardcover)
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Transforming Infant Wellbeing - Research, Policy and Practice for the First 1001 Critical Days (Hardcover)
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Transforming Infant Wellbeing brings together science and policy to
highlight the critical importance of the first 1001 days of
infancy: the period from conception to the second birthday.
Introduced and edited by Penelope Leach, who uniquely combines
academic knowledge of infant development with the ability to write
about it for wide audiences, the book has at its heart 25 original
articles by acknowledged experts in different aspects of infant
health and development. Brought together, they showcase innovative
science and best practices to a wide range of readers: to
scientific colleagues in different disciplines; to politicians and
policy makers; to local authority commissioners and specialist
advisors, statutory and voluntary organisations and parents. This
book has a two-fold purpose in science and in social policy. First,
to collect new papers by leading scientists in a single volume,
which ensures they reach a broad audience. Second, by introducing
and commenting on the significance of these new findings, the book
highlights both the benefits that accrue to society when it acts
accordingly, and the costs, financial and social, of our failure to
do so. In the last 50 years, interest in infant development and
especially maternal and infant mental health has burgeoned. A large
number of issues at the forefront of child development research
mirror those of yesterday, but the research brought to bear upon
them has transformed. Thanks largely to technological and
statistical advances, we now know a great deal that researchers of
earlier generations could only surmise. However, increasing
knowledge of infancy has not been matched by an increasing impact
on parents and professionals, politicians and policy makers.
Bringing contemporary studies involving pregnancy, birth, infancy
and toddlerhood together, along with the undisputed evidential
findings that flow from them, large gaps between what is known and
what is done become apparent. By focusing on what can be done to
fill those gaps, Transforming Infant Wellbeing renders inescapable
the need to rethink current priorities. It represents essential
reading for researchers, parents and policy makers of infancy.
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