scholarly journals Strategy for Decreasing the Rate of Stunting Through Early Childhood Health and Nutrition Training for Tutors/Parents of Early Childhood Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 454
Author(s):  
Yenina Akmal ◽  
Hikmah Hikmah ◽  
Ika Subekti ◽  
Ichtineza Halida Hardono
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Childhood Health ◽  
Early Childhood Health ◽  
Nutrition Training ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Purple Sweet Potato ◽  
Observation Method

Stunting also occurs in urban areas, i.e., DKI Jakarta. East Jakarta is the second-highest (25.7%) location where stunting occurred. Since this activity was conducted in Duren Sawit Subdistrict, where numerous people still received Healthy Jakarta Cards, special efforts were needed to reduce the high stunting rate. The method used is qualitative descriptive.  The form of training is the participant observation method and demonstration, include cooking demonstrations and Focus Group Discussion (FGD). This efforts made to decrease the number of Stunting in Duren Sawit Subdistrict. The training was given to ± 35 ECE tutors and parents of students from various ECE in Duren Sawit Subdistrict. Tutors and parents seemed enthusiastic and active during the activities, especially when they were given the task to create a one-week healthy menu in groups and then closed with a demo of making a cake with purple sweet potato as ingredients.

scholarly journals Interrogating the ‘artificial’ divide between health and education for children aged 0–3 years in urban poor locales in Kenya

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurelia Munene ◽  
Auma Okwany
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Childhood Health ◽  
Early Childhood Health ◽  
Early Childhood Care ◽  
Childhood Care

Holistic integrated early childhood policies foster child well-being in the first 3 years of life. The normative framing of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) entrenches segmentation and creates artificial divides between education and health. This segmentation persists yet development processes for children are intertwined and mutually reinforcing. We trouble this artificial divide by drawing on findings from a study which examined the discursive care spaces in an urban poor locale in Kenya. Data were produced through in-depth interviews; participant observation and focus group discussions with caregivers and both state and non-state care providers. Using a socio-ecological lens to analyse intra- and inter-household interactions among caregivers, our analysis exposes the assumptions and silences in ECCE health and education and presents caregivers’ rich nuanced experiences and counter accounts. We conclude by calling for the imperative of bridging the divide between and within early childhood health and education to support integrated, adaptive and contextualised policy and practice.

scholarly journals Mothers' Care: Reversing Early Childhood Health Shocks Through Parental Investments

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Bellés-Obrero ◽  
Antonio Cabrales ◽  
Sergi Jimenez-Martin ◽  
Judit Vall-Castello
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Health Shocks ◽  
Childhood Health ◽  
Parental Investments ◽  
Early Childhood Health

scholarly journals Effect of Improving Housing Conditions on Early Childhood Health in Rural Sudan

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Obbey A. Elamin
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Housing Sector ◽  
Childhood Health ◽  
Under Five ◽  
Under Five Children ◽  
Early Childhood Health ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Piped Water

Improving housing sector in rural areas is important to improve health status of under-five children. Propensity score matching using nonparametric kernel estimates is used to examine the effect of improving rural structure of houses in rural Sudan and provide them with services like access to clean piped water, sanitation on improving under-five children health. The prevalence of diarrhoea and cough in rural Sudan are used as measures of health outcome and data from the Sudan Household Health Survey in 2010 is used. Our results show that providing houses with piped water can reduce prevalence of diarrhoea and cough by 22 and 24 percentage points, respectively. Gas cooking fuel reduces the prevalence rates by 26 and 29 percentage points, respectively. Construction materials of walls have strong impact on reducing the prevalence of both illnesses. We recommend that the quality of piped water should be observed and maintained in good standard to ensure that clean water is supplies to the household sector. Developing the housing sector in the rural has many advantages in improving early childhood health in Sudan and it should be one of the priorities of the government.

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