Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years, when the environments, supports, and relationships they experience have profound effects. Their ...

Fatima Mahamat is handed a birth certificate for her 23-day-old daughter Amina at a UNICEF-supported health facility in N’Djamena, Chad. The child's information was entered on a smart phone using a ...

Giving birth to a child after 40 is becoming more and more common—but it can entail an increased risk to the child. A new study based on data from over 300,000 births in Sweden shows that children of ...

A sixteen-year retrospective cohort study in Senegal found that 19.1 percent of children with congenital anomalies of the ...

To provide context for the environment in which the professionals who are the focus of this report work, this chapter describes the complex landscape of systems that provide or support services for ...