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Health systems for Early Child Development
Supporting ECD through health systems is consistent with the broad World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition of health as a state of well-being. In the ECA region, primary health care services are almost universal with frequent encounters with families and children in their first years.
The main challenge is how to integrate support for holistic child development into provision of routine and regular health care services. Health care systems can do a lot to support caregivers through family centered services to strengthen family resources and skills to provide nurturing care to young children.
Developmental monitoring
Developmental monitoring is to observe how a child grows and develops over time and whether the child meets the typic
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Home visiting
Home visiting during pregnancy and early childhood is a frequently used health promotion strategy for improving paren
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Supporting children with complex needs
Health care providers often meet children with complex needs such as chronic or complex medical conditions, disabilit
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Facility based health care
Facility-centred health care services in the ECA region provide unique opportunities for introducing ECD-related cont
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| 11 – 12:30 (CET TIME)
In 2021 UNICEF ECARO, WHO Regional Office for Europe, and the International Step by Step Association (ISSA) joined efforts to launch Health Systems for Early Child Development initiative, to accelerate efforts in Europe and Central Asia to build more “developmentally oriented” and family-centered health systems and services empowering caregivers to provide children with nurturing care – a safe and enabling environment that ensures good health and nutrition, protects them from threats, offers opportunities for early learning and encourages responsive and emotionally supportive interactions with parents and caregivers. The Initiative will curate and share contemporary, evidence-based guidance, resources, and examples of recommended practices; create and nurture a learning community, and advocate for the change of policies and practices.
This webinar is the first in series of knowledge sharing events under the initiative and is focused on home visiting for young children and families and how it is employed across the region. If you are Government official, policy and program planner, UNICEF and WHO country specialist, expert in home visiting, trainer or educator join us for this webinar to:
- Learn about new evidence, policies, guidance showcasing the importance and potential of home visiting for early childhood development
- Hear from policy makers from two countries in the region and learn about their motivation to make changes in the health system to endorse and scale up high-quality home visiting programs and approaches.
- Hear testimonies from frontline workers, experts and parents about the benefits of home visiting.
- Get inspired by newly developed practices illustrating the potential of home visiting to enhance support for parents to provide nurturing care.
- Learn about the Health Systems for Early Child Development initiative, the soon to launch website, the initiative’s events and how you can benefit by getting engaged with this budding community.
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Home Visiting For Early Child Development
| 75 minutes (CET TIME)
Health care systems are well-trusted and far-reaching. Their access to young children and their families in the most critical years for optimal brain development provides a unique opportunity to support caregivers for nurturing care, which includes care for the child's health, safety and security, responsive Interactions, learning and stimulation, and identification of and support for children at risk of developmental difficulties to develop to their full potential.
In 2021 UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, WHO Europe, and the International Step by Step Association (ISSA) joined efforts through the Health Systems for Early Child Development initiative. With the support of experts and professionals, the initiative aims to strengthen focus and support for holistic child development in routine health care for all children.
On 6 December 2022, the initiative will officially launch its website, offering a one-stop-shop for curated contemporary, evidence-based guidance, resources, and expertise on developmentally oriented health systems in Europe and Central Asia.
This event was hosted in English with interpretation in Albanian, Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian and Russian.
Download the full program of the launch.
Download the keynote presentation from Prof. Dr. Ilgi Ertem.
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