The future of human societies depends on children being able to achieve their optimal
physical growth and psychological development. Never before has there been so much …

We conducted a systematic review of studies that examined the effect of interventions
combining a child development component with a nutrition one; in some cases the nutrition …

How can children, born into less-than-optimal environments, avert the mild and moderate
malnutrition that underlies the majority of child mortality? It is the basic thesis of this paper …

ABSTRACT The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have contributed to unprecedented
reductions in poverty and improvement in the lives of millions of men, women, and children …

Nutritional and developmental insults in the first few years of life have profound public health
implications, including substantial contributions to neonatal, infant, and early childhood …

Editor's note: The efficacy and effectiveness of programs designed to improve the growth
and development of children was recently reviewed by the World Health Organization …

A growing body of evidence supports the notion that integrated programs addressing
nutrition and stimulation provide stronger impacts on nutritional and developmental …

OBJECTIVE: To review existing evidence for health and nutrition interventions affecting
direct measures of (and pathways to) early child development. DATA SOURCES: Reviews …

For their optimal growth, and for greater long-term human capital development, children
profit not only from improved nutrition but also from improved learning opportunities in the …

Although it has been argued that undernutrition and its consequences for child development
are irreversible after the age of 2, the evidence in support of these hypotheses is …