Responsive parenting: Interventions and outcomes

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 992-998

  Eshel, Neir ^a   Daelmans, Bernadette ^b   Cabral De Mello, Meena ^b   Martines, Jose ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; CHILD HEALTH; FOOD; HEALTH SERVICES; PARENTAL CARE; SANITATION; SURVIVAL;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; PARENTING EDUCATION; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CHILD; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING;

EID: 33845456705     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.06.030163     Document Type: Review

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