At sea: What direction for critical early childhood research?

Early-childhood Interventions for Children at Risk

There is a high degree of continuity from childhood conduct problems to delinquency and later criminal behavior (Loeber and LeBlanc, 1990). The best predictor of any individual’s future deviant or antisocial behavior is the amount and severity of similar behaviors in the past (Farrington, 1994). Age of onset and severity of juvenile record are two of the best predictors of adult criminality (Gr...

Childhood cancer: cure at what cost?

'The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run' (Thoreau, 1854).' Twenty years ago, cure, a return to health or being made sound or whole, was contemplated for less than a quarter of all children who developed malignant disease and indeed was a word rarely used. The dramatic improvements in survival seen for the maj...

Development of clinical guideline for early detection of critical congenital heart diseases at birth by pulse oximetry

Using Participatory Research for Early Childhood Advocacy: Reflections on Methodology

This paper discusses the methodological implications of using participatory research in the advocacy for better care and education services for children and families. The discussion uses the example of a national study undertaken in Singapore to show how participatory research used in collaboration with participants and commissioning body as key stakeholders can help to galvanise transformative...

The basic research factors questionnaire for studying early childhood caries

BACKGROUND We describe development of the Early Childhood Caries (ECC) Basic Research Factors Questionnaire (BRFQ), a battery of measures assessing common potential predictors, mediators, and moderators of ECC. Individual-, family-, and community-level factors that are linked to oral health outcomes across at-risk populations are included. Developing standard measures of factors implicated in E...