Education and Health Flashcards
What are the 3 Hertzman Origin of Health effects?
Latent
Pathway
Cummulative
What are Latenet Effects?
Biological effects, early childhood events that effect you later on
What are Pathway Effetcs?
Psychchosocial events early in life that put you on a certian trajectory
What are Cummulative Effects?
The sum of all your advantages and disadvantages
What are the 5 factors that effect childhood development
Material Political Econonmy Psychosocial Culture/Beliefs Lifecourse
How do materialistic factors effect childhood development?
Diet, housing, education, recreation
How do lifecourse factors effect childhood development
Events before birth or in earlychildhood that effect health and social circustances
How do psychosocial factors effect childhood dedevlopment?
stress, sense of control, family environment, social supports
How do cultural/behavioral factors effect childhood development?
Beliefs, morals, values
How does the political econonmy effect childhood deevelopment?
Acess to social supports, social serves and economic resources
Why is early childhood education important
It provides the foundations for healthy adults
Describe the concept that infants are born prematurely and have a “range of potential”
Infants are prematurely and therefore can be developmentally effected even while in utero, and while we may be born with a vast degree of genetic capability or environment dictates our potential
ECEC can mitigate some negative developmental effects however it must happen…
early (malleable, experience expectant: biological experience dependant: new experences), intensivlty (frequent), and systematically (stage of cognitive development)
How can Canada improve our childhood development?
Improve services ex. glasses
Strenghten Community
Change Behavior
Health Public Policy
