A perfect 10: Why Sweden comes out on top in early child development programming

Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 677-680

  Bremberg, Sven ^a  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Child welfare; Early childhood development; History; Public policy; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD WELFARE; DECENTRALIZATION; EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL WORK; SWEDEN; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 75649088950     PISSN: 12057088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pch/14.10.677     Document Type: Article

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