In dit Engelstalige boek worden wetenschap en beleid samengebracht om te benadrukken hoe belangrijk de eerste 1001 dagen van het leven van een kind zijn: de periode van de conceptie tot de tweede verjaardag. Dit boek bevat 25 originele artikelen van experts op verschillende gebieden van de gezondheid en ontwikkeling van het jonge kind.

Het is een prachtige bloemlezing geworden die voor een grote groep lezers toont wat de stand van zaken is op het gebied van wetenschap en best practices. Het boek is samengesteld door Penelope Leach en zij heeft tevens de inleiding geschreven.

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Transforming Infant Wellbeing brings together science and policy to highlight the critical importance of the first 1001 days of infancy: the period from conception to the second birthday. The book has at its heart 25 original articles by acknowledged experts in different aspects of infant health and development. Brought together, they showcase innovative science and best practise to a wide range of readers.

‘Transforming Infant Wellbeing’ is introduced and edited by Penelope Leach, who uniquely combines academic knowledge of infant development with the ability to write about it for wide audiences. This book has a two-fold purpose in science and in social policy. Firstly, to collect new papers by leading scientists in a single volume, which ensures they reach a broad audience. Secondly, by introducing and commenting on the significance of these new findings, the book highlights both the benefits that accrue to society when it acts accordingly, and the costs, financial and social, of our failure to do so.

In the last fifty years, interest in infant development and especially maternal and infant mental health has burgeoned. A large number of issues at the forefront of child development research mirror those of yesterday, but the research brought to bear upon them has transformed. Thanks largely to technological and statistical advances, we now know a great deal that researchers of earlier generations could only surmise. However, increasing knowledge of infancy has not been matched by an increasing impact on parents and professionals, politicians and policy makers. Bringing contemporary studies involving pregnancy, birth, infancy and toddlerhood together, along with the undisputed evidential findings that flow from them, large gaps between what is known and what is done become apparent. By focusing on what can be done to fill those gaps, Transforming Infant Wellbeing renders inescapable the need to re-think current priorities. It represents essential reading for researchers, parents and policy-makers of infancy.

Transforming Infant Wellbeing
Penelope Leach
Taylor & Francis Ltd