Research Catalog

Title

The cost of inaction for young children globally : workshop summary / Kimber Bogard and Maureen Mellody, rapporteurs ; Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally, Board on Children, Youth, and Families ; Board on Global Health ; Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies.

Author

Investing in Young Children Globally: the Cost of Inaction (Workshop) (2014 : Washington, D.C.), author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Publication

• Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2014.
• ©2014

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Bogard, Kimber
• Mellody, Maureen
• Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Global Health, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Description

xvi, 92 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Child welfare > Congresses
• Political planning > Congresses
• Cost effectiveness > Congresses
• Social history > Congresses
• Medical policy > Congresses
• Economics > Sociological aspects > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Overview -- Linking children's developmental potential to a nation's developmental potential -- The science of developmental potential -- The state of the world's young children -- Inequality among children in reaching their developmental potential -- The context of families and caregivers -- Indicators and metrics -- Investing in young children and their caregivers -- Benefit-cost analysis of inaction.

ISBN

• 0309307759
• 9780309307758

OCLC

• ocn889522351
• 889522351
• SCSB-5760789

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries