Abstract
Research over recent decades has shown that promoting good care for children in the very early stages of their development has extensive effects throughout the life cycle. As a result, over the years several programs and policies have been designed to improve the lives of children from 0 to 6 years. In this chapter, we present a perspective from Latin America on programs that seek to promote good care in early stages of child development. The programs reviewed, whether in Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, or Brazil, rely in some measure on home visitation methodology and target areas of high social vulnerability, assisting families who, for various reasons, have difficulties reaching other assistance networks. We present information about the programs’ goals, procedures, and when evaluations are available, their results.
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Limitations of sources used in the program: It is important to keep in mind that online information was a major source for this work. Governmental, academic, and NGO’s websites do not cover all experiences in place at a moment; for those they do report, not all information needed is provided. We expect that more information is provided about the experiences that for some reason are deemed to be more successful.
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To know more about these principles: http://bvsms.saude.gov.br/bvs/publicacoes/humaniza_sus_marco_teorico.pdf.
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Maria Sallum—Instituto da Saúde/Secretaria de Estado de Saúde de São Paulo; Pâmela Ximena/OPAS Brasil; Simone de Assis—CLAVES/Fiocruz; Alberto Concha-Eastman—OPAS/Washington; Alexander Butchart—OMS/Genebra; Alexandra Guedes—OPAS/Washington; Christopher Mitkon—OMS/Genebra; Joanne Klevens—CDC/Washington; Jon Korfmacher—Erikson Institute/Chicago; Magdalena Cerda—University of Michigan; and Rosario Valdez—Instituto de Salud Publica de Mexico.
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Main partnerships involved were Sociedade Santos Mártires (SASF, NPJ, Casa Sofia), ONG Social Bom Jesus (SASF II), ARCO Associação Beneficiente, UBS Jardim Aracati.
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ECA is recognized as one of the more advanced legislation for the promotion and protection of children’s and adolescents’ development, though such rights are not always accessible in daily life. A variety of obstacles hinder the effectiveness of legal dispositions: precarious conditions, waiting lists, absence of clear and objective information on the services’ operations, absence of qualified professionals, lack of equipment, and so forth.
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Cardia, N., Alves, R., Gomes, A., Mourão, A. (2016). Home Visitation Programs for Early Child Development: Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean. In: Roggman, L., Cardia, N. (eds) Home Visitation Programs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17984-1_10
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