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Better Health, Better Lives? 10-Years on from the World Health Organization's Declaration on the Health of Children with Intellectual Disabilities
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Scherer, Nathaniel; Banks, Roger; Murko, Melita; Chisholm, Daniel – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
It is now 10 years since the "European Declaration on the Health of Children and Young People with Intellectual Disabilities and their Families: Better Health -- Better Lives" was adopted by the World Health Organization. Through discussions with key informants and an online literature review, we reflect on actions and progress made in…
Descriptors: Child Health, Children, Intellectual Disability, Public Policy
Child Well-Being in Rich Countries: A Comparative Overview. Innocenti Report Card 11
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Adamson, Peter – UNICEF, 2013
Part 1 of the Report Card presents a league table of child well-being in 29 of the world's advanced economies. Part 2 looks at what children say about their own well-being (including a league table of children's life satisfaction). Part 3 examines changes in child well-being in advanced economies over the first decade of the 2000s, looking at each…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Children, Well Being, Life Satisfaction
Biennial Survey of Education, 1916-18. Volume II. Bulletin, 1919, No. 89
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Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
Volume II of the Biennial Survey of Education, 1916-1918 includes the following chapters: (1) Education in Great Britain and Ireland (I. L. Kandel); (2) Education in parts of the British Empire: Educational Developments in the Dominion of Canada (Walter A. Montgomery), Public School System of Jamaica (Charles A. Asbury), Recent Progress of…
Descriptors: Jews, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Methods
Starting Right: How America Neglects Its Youngest Children and What We Can Do about It.
Kamerman, Sheila B.; Kahn, Alfred J. – 1995
Despite U.S. world leadership in research in child healthcare and development, in all the statistical indicators of children's well-being the United States lags well behind most advanced industrialized societies. This book discusses U.S. public policy issues concerning the healthcare and development of children under age three. Studies are cited…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Development, Child Health, Comparative Analysis
Social Policy and the Under-3s: Six Country Case Studies. A Resource for Policy Makers, Advocates and Scholars.
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Kahn, Alfred J.; Kamerman, Sheila B. – 1994
This collection of six case studies is a by-product of a European-focused study that sought to understand the policies focused on children from birth to age 3, whether directly affecting the children or reaching them indirectly through their parents. The study examined the social infrastructure in which the specific "under-3" policies…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Health, Child Rearing, Child Welfare
A New Generation of Canadian Families Raising Young Children: A New Look at Data from National Surveys
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Human Resources Development Canada, 2003
When Canadian parents look back on their own lives and the lives of their parents, they see changes across a generation that have profoundly affected their parenting experience, compared to when they themselves were young children. Supports for today's parents must take into consideration these changes that affect the care and nurturing of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Age Differences, Young Children