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Designing and Implementing an Early Childhood Health and Development Program in Rural, Southwest Guatemala

2017; Elsevier BV; Volume: 64; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.yapd.2017.04.003

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Gretchen J. Domek, Maureen Cunningham, Andrea Jimenez‐Zambrano, Dena M. Dunn, Madiha Abdel-Maksoud, Michael R. Bronsert, Claudia Luna-Asturias, Stephen Berman,

Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

The University of Colorado and the Colorado School of Public Health are partnering with a local private sector agricultural corporation in rural, southwest Guatemala to develop a maternal and child community health program. This article describes the early childhood part of the program, which was designed to include an integrated approach to early childhood health and development. The program combines a series of newborn home visits, community education sessions, and mother-child interactive group visits to enhance the health and development of children from birth to 3 years of age.