Getting to Know Your International Contacts Part 2

           Being able to help other countries that continue to struggle is a new insight that I have gained from reading this source. “In the lowest-income countries, which continue to struggle with severe malnutrition, debilitating infection, and high mortality rates, this new knowledge offers a promising opportunity to integrate basic health and early childhood development services within a broader social and economic development agenda.”(Global Children’s Initiative, 2010).  

           Science of Health and Development Initiative mission is what I have gained insight on because they are there to help others gain knowledge about health when it comes to children. One way in particular that stood out to me was the fact that they are there to help with the understanding of brain development and how there could be a lifelong outcome in health and behavior during prenatal and child development..

Some additional information about issues of equity and excellence that I acquired from international source after reading it is that children who grow up in a positive and healthy environment will strive and be healthy adults. I find this interesting because not all children who are in a positive and healthy environment will grow up to be healthy adults. Some children actually stray given that they grow up in a positive environment.

References

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. (2010). Global children's initiative. Retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/activities/global_initiative/