Around a child’s first birthday, parents and caregivers can often start noticing signs and behaviors that could point to developmental delay in their children, causing concern for their well-being.

Video games can get a bad rap when it comes to kids and mental health, but their impact on child development is often misunderstood. Gaming can be a powerful training tool for a variety of skills. If ...

A key ambition of the sustainable development goals, especially goal 3 for global health, was to move the primary focus on reducing child mortality to a wider strategy of addressing child health and ...

The first 1000 days — from conception to a child’s second birthday — form the most consequential window for shaping lifelong ...

The global burden of child and youth deaths remains high, despite dramatic reductions in under-5s deaths, and there are stark inequalities across the globe in the availability of health services to ...

Early relational health emerges from various factors spanning multiple domains of influence. Individuals, familial and extrafamilial relationships, community organizations and systems, public policy, ...

Fetal and early child development are often conceptualized as a “black box,” in which children simply learn by soaking up information, much like a sponge and water. Developmental science has ...

The UAB School of Public Health has had a focused expertise in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) for decades. The purpose of the MCH Policy and Leadership concentration is to provide excellent MCH ...

This research, the first-ever longitudinal study on the effects of parental personality disorders on child mental health and development, found that parental narcissism was linked with “later child ...

A new report from the Academy of Medical Sciences highlights the “appalling decline” in child health and a need for “urgent action”. In recent years, child vaccination rates have fallen well below ...