British Medical Journal

Opportunities and Challenges for Financing Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health in the Context of Climate Change

This article provides an overview of the threats climate change represents for women, children and adolescents, including the most vulnerable communities, and where health and climate investments should focus. It draws on evidence to explore the opportunities and challenges for health financing, climate finance and co-financing schemes to enhance equity and protect WCAH while supporting climate goals.Read More →

The principles of nurturing care promote human capital and mitigate adversities from preconception through adolescence

Tagged: Evidence, Publications

This paper proposes a comprehensive, multisectoral, multilevel lifecourse conceptualisation of human capital development by building on the Nurturing Care Framework. Read More →

Accountability for funds for Nurturing Care: what can we measure?

Tagged: Evidence

Understanding donor, government and out-of-pocket funding for early child development (ECD) is important for tracking progress. This paper, published in the British Medical Journal’s Archives of Disease in Childhood, aims to estimate a baseline for the Nurturing Care Framework, with a special focus on childhood disability.Read More →

Inequalities in early childhood care and development in low/middle-income countries: 2010–2018

Tagged: Evidence

Using analysis structured according to the Nurturing Care Framework, this paper from BMJ shows that more efforts are needed to reduce inequalities in exposure to poverty, stunting, home stimulation and early education, in order to improve early childhood development. More investments are needed to improve and expand measures relevant to ECD in LMICs.Read More →