By Luis Tejerina

By Emmanuelle Sánchez-Monin

On October 17 and 18 child development experts from Brazil, Cuba, the Netherlands, Chile and the United States will meet in Brasilia. The invitation comes from the Technical Department of Child Health and Breastfeeding of the Minsitry of Health. The goal of this meeting is to help the Brazilian Ministry of Health develop a national program to promote the comprehensive development of children from birth to age six. There are  17 million Brazilian children in this age group.

By Daniela Philipp.

I recently came across a New York Times article on the book “How children succeed” by Paul Tough. In this book Mr. Tough looks for answers to troublesome questions like:

More than 70 million people live in the countries conforming the Mesoamerican region (Central America and Mexico). Nearly 40 million of them live in a situation of poverty and have a high risk of poor nutrition. What´s their future like? Unfortunately, this specially affects mothers and newborn children. They are the ones showing the worst health indicators, but luckily their situation is not irreversible.

In collaboration with Sophie Gardiner. 

By Juan Pablo Severi. 

Periodic monitoring conducted by the Universidad Católica de Argentina (Catholic University of Argentina) through the Barometer of Social Debt in Childhood compares the conditions in which Argentine children living in households in the upper and lower income quartiles develop.

The poorest children are:

On September 22nd 2012 at 5 am, Pat Engle passed away in New York. She was a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology and Child Development of Cal Poly and an Honorary Professor of the University of Hong Kong.

By Isabel Nieves.

Mexico is working to develop a methodology to serve children with developmental delays in the first five years of life.