China News Service, July 29 (Chen Jing Jiang Rong) Early childhood development refers to the development of children's physical, sports, language, cognition, and social emotions from pregnancy to 8 years old
A collaborative paper by scholars from China and the United States "Assessing the imbalance of early childhood development in China-Based on population-level empirical research" was published online in the journal The Lancet-Regional Health (Western Pacific)
The study revealed that the differences in early childhood development in China not only exist between different regions, but also among different groups of people in the same region, especially low-income groups and those with lower mothers’ educational level should be the work of early childhood development.
As the United Nations global strategy shifted from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals, the World Health Organization clearly put forward the concept of health indicator strategies from survival to development, and early childhood development has gradually become one of the important strategic tasks in the field of children's healthy development
The research conducted by Professor Fan Jiang's research group from Shanghai Children's Medical Center affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Professor Song Yingquan's research group from Peking University Educational Finance Research Institute, and Professor Chunling Lu from Harvard University were conducted in China's underdeveloped regions and developed regions from 2017 to 2018.
Professor Jiang Fan from Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, said that this research report on the status of early childhood development in China reveals the characteristics of the imbalance of China’s early childhood development between regions and among different social classes in the region, and promotes children for the government.
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