Economic perspectives on integrating early child stimulation with nutritional interventions
Economic perspectives on integrating early child stimulation with nutritional interventions
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10.1111/nyas.12331
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2014-01-01
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Urzua, Sergio
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Alderman, Harold;Behrman, Jere R.;Urzua, Sergio
有一种强烈的观点认为，有效的营养干预措施存在一个狭窄的窗口，对认知和社会情感发展投资的经济回报率的描述与年龄有关，这是众所周知的。两者都表明了生命早期的关键时期。此外，事实上，这两个身体和认知发展的儿童在这些早年是高度依赖于儿童保育的做法和照顾者的特点激发了兴趣，在寻找有效的手段，以提高刺激的背景下，营养方案，反之亦然。然而，迄今为止，关于如何使综合干预措施与这些特定年龄的模式相一致以及如何对综合干预措施进行效益-成本分析的证据相对较少。因此，许多核心问题需要进一步考虑，以设计综合营养和刺激方案。本文着眼于其中的一些问题，并提供了一些指导方针，如何从联合营养和刺激计划的经济回报可能是估计。
There is a strongly held view that a narrow window exists for effective nutritional interventions and a widely known stylized depiction of age- dependent economic rates of returns to investments in cognitive and socioemotional development. Both indicate critical periods in early life. Moreover, the fact that both the physical and cognitive development of a child in these early years are highly dependent on childcare practices and on the characteristics of the caregivers motivates an interest in finding effective means to enhance stimulation in the context of nutritional programs, or vice versa. Nevertheless, there is relatively little evidence to date on how to align integrated interventions to these age- specific patterns and how to undertake benefit-cost analyses for integrated interventions. Thus, many core questions need further consideration in order to design integrated nutritional and stimulation programs. This paper looks at some of these questions and provides some guidelines as to how the economic returns from joint nutrition and stimulation programs might be estimated.