Necessity of establishing the early childhood development surveillance system in China

ZHANG Yunting; LU Chunling; WANG Haiwa; ZHAO Jin; JIANG Fan

doi:10.11852/zgetbjzz2022-1513

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Chinese Journal of Child Health Care ›› 2023, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (8) : 821-824. DOI: 10.11852/zgetbjzz2022-1513

Necessity of establishing the early childhood development surveillance system in China

ZHANG Yunting¹, LU Chunling², WANG Haiwa³, ZHAO Jin³, JIANG Fan^1,3,4

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As an important component of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the international community's attention to early childhood development continues to rise. Against the background of countries' active promotion of early childhood policies and large-scale population-based intervention programs, the assessment and monitoring of early childhood development need to be adequately recognized and emphasized. Based on the assessment and monitoring studies conducted at home and abroad, researchers should focus on the optimization of population-based assessment tools for early childhood development and localization in China, form a multidimensional risk factor-developmental outcome assessment system, establish a large-scale population-based cohort with population-based assessment goals, so as to provide necessary evidence for strategy formulation and policy design of early childhood development in China.

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early childhood development / surveillance system / population-based assessment

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ZHANG Yunting, LU Chunling, WANG Haiwa, ZHAO Jin, JIANG Fan. Necessity of establishing the early childhood development surveillance system in China[J]. Chinese Journal of Child Health Care. 2023, 31(8): 821-824 https://doi.org/10.11852/zgetbjzz2022-1513

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