Professional care workforce: a rapid review of evidence supporting methods of recruitment, retention, safety, and education by Meg E. Morris, Natasha K. Brusco, Rachael McAleer, Stephen Billett, Lisa Brophy, Rosemary Bryant, Leeanne Carey, Amy Conley Wright, Christine East, Marion Eckert, Kristina Edvardsson, Deirdre Fetherstonhaugh, Sally Fowler-Davis, Margarita Frederico, Richard Gray, Doug McCaskie, Carol McKinstry, Rebecca Mitchell, Brian Oldenburg, Nora Shields, Karen Smith, Evelien Spelten, Nicholas Taylor, Claire Thwaites, Suzanne Young, Irene Blackberry

“…Methods A rapid review of comparative interventions designed to recruit, retain, educate and care for the professional workforce in the following sectors: disability, aged care, health, mental health, family and youth services, and early childhood education and care was conducted. Embase and MEDLINE databases were searched, and studies published between January 2015 and November 2022 were included. …”
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¿Qué otras competencias debe tener el profesorado del alumnado inmigrante? (What Other Skills Should Have Teachers of Immigrant Students?) (Quelles compétences doivent avoir les pr... by Hilario Murua-Cartón, Félix Etxeberria-Balerdi, Joxe Garmendia-Larrañaga, Elisabet Arrieta-Aranguren

“…En las conclusiones se observan la falta de preparación del profesorado para trabajar con alumnado inmigrante y su predisposición para la mejora de su práctica educativa.AbstractThis research article resulting from the project Development of speci- fic competences of teachers and su- pport staff to achieve the integration of immigrant students, started in the academic year 2008/09, on the skills required from the teachers working with immigrant students in stages of early childhood in Primary Education. It raised a questionnaire with 35 items related to: Awareness, Attitude, Skills and Knowledge and Skills. …”
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The Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 and the modified Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 in Taiwan: Factor structure and concurrent validity by I-Hua Chen, Po-Ching Huang, Yi-Ching Lin, Wan Ying Gan, Chia-Wei Fan, Wen-Chi Yang, Wen-Chi Yang, Wen-Chi Yang, Serene En Hui Tung, Wai Chuen Poon, Mark D. Griffiths, Chung-Ying Lin, Chung-Ying Lin, Chung-Ying Lin, Chung-Ying Lin

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Men’s motivations, barriers to and aspirations for their families’ health in the first 1000 days in sub-Saharan Africa: a secondary qualitative analysis by Mary Barker, Shane A Norris, Nuala Mcgrath, Karen Hofman, N McGrath, KM Godfrey, K Ward, Kate A Ward, Engelbert A Nonterah, M Barker, Keith Godfrey, D Watson, Daniella Watson, Samuel Chatio, Agnes Erzse, KJ Hofman, Palwende Romuald Boua, Adélaïde Compaoré, Maxwell Dalaba, Sarah Kehoe, Gudani Mukoma, Hermann Sorgho, Polly Hardy-Johnson, S Chatio, R Boua, A Compaore, M Dalaba, A Erzse, SH Kehoe, G Mukoma, EA Nonterah, SA Norris, H Sorgho, P Hardy-Johnson

“…In sub-Saharan Africa, gender and social norms are such that many men have little engagement with maternal and child health and nutrition during pregnancy and early childhood. This study explores how men perceive their role in three sites in sub-Saharan Africa.Methods Secondary qualitative analysis of 10 focus group discussions with 76 men in Burkina Faso, Ghana and South Africa. …”
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Human Tooth as a Fungal Niche: Candida albicans Traits in Dental Plaque Isolates by Zhenting Xiang, Rohan S. Wakade, Apoena Aguiar Ribeiro, Weiming Hu, Kyle Bittinger, Aurea Simon-Soro, Dongyeop Kim, Jiyao Li, Damian J. Krysan, Yuan Liu, Hyun Koo

“…IMPORTANCE Severe early childhood caries is a widespread global public health problem causing extensive tooth decay and systemic complications. …”
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Are the first 1,000 days of life a neglected vital period to prevent the impact on maternal and infant morbimortality of infectious diseases in Latin America? Proceedings of a work... by Roberto Debbag, Jaime R. Torres, Luiza H. Falleiros-Arlant, Maria L. Avila-Aguero, Maria L. Avila-Aguero, Jose Brea-del Castillo, Angela Gentile, Xavier Saez-Llorens, Abiel Mascarenas, Flor M. Munoz, Juan P. Torres, Liliana Vazquez, Marco A. Safadi, Carlos Espinal, Rolando Ulloa-Gutierrez, Monica Pujadas, Pio Lopez, Eduardo López-Medina, Octavio Ramilo

“…Considerations were made about the challenges involved in bridging the gap that separates the region from more developed countries regarding an optimal early childhood and maternal care. Extensive discussion was conducted to reach consensus recommendations on general strategies intended to reduce maternal and infant mortality associated with infections and immune-preventable diseases during the first 1,000 days of life in LAC.…”
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Developing a Model for Social Capacity Building and Water Crisis Socialization by Mahsa Astaneh, Faezeh Taghipour, Hamid Davazdah Emami

“…Strengthening media and ‎communication dimensions is one of the key points in these findings. Early childhood education ‎and the creation of a water discourse through effective dialogue about water in the community is ‎strongly recommended with the help of social facilitators and restoring lost public confidence to ‎increase their participation. …”
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Environmental enteric dysfunction and growth by Mauro Batista de Morais, Giselia Alves Pontes da Silva

“…Another aspect to emphasize is the greater risk for those children who had height impairment in early childhood, possibly associated with environmental enteric dysfunction, to present overweight and obesity in adulthood when exposed to a high calorie diet, which has been called “triple burden.” …”
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Generation of an induced pluripotent stem cell line from a 3-month-old nemaline myopathy patient with a heterozygous dominant c.515C > A (p.Ala172Glu) variant in the ACTA1 gene by Joshua S. Clayton, Isabella Suleski, Christina Vo, Robert Smith, Carolin K. Scriba, Safaa Saker, Thierry Larmonier, Edoardo Malfatti, Norma B. Romero, Peter J. Houweling, Kristen J. Nowak, Gianina Ravenscroft, Nigel G. Laing, Rhonda L. Taylor

“…Variants in the ACTA1 gene are a common cause of nemaline myopathy (NM); a muscle disease that typically presents at birth or early childhood with hypotonia and muscle weakness. Here, we generated an induced pluripotent stem cell line (iPSC) from lymphoblastoid cells of a 3-month-old female patient with intermediate NM caused by a dominant ACTA1 variant (c.515C > A (p.Ala172Glu)). iPSCs showed typical morphology, expressed pluripotency markers, demonstrated trilineage differentiation potential, and had a normal karyotype. …”
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Methodological approaches to differential detection of EBV1/EBV2 and HHV6A/HHV6B in saliva by Mariia I. Popkova, Oleg V. Utkin, Daria A. Bryzgalova, Anna O. Senatskaia, Evgeniya A. Soboleva, Nikolai A. Sakharnov, Elena N. Filatova, Ekaterina A. Kulova

“…EpsteinBarr virus (EBV) and human herpesviruses 6A and 6B (HHV6A and HHV6B) are ubiquitous, infecting representatives of all social groups, starting from early childhood. Currently, information on the genetic heterogeneity of EBV, even at the level of the main types (EBV1 and EBV2), as well as HHV6A and HHV6B, their prevalence and clinical significance are limited mainly by foreign data. …”
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Maternal plasma perfluoroalkyl substances concentrations in early pregnancy and cardiovascular development in offspring: A prospective cohort study by Jian Wang, Bowen Du, Yujian Wu, Zhuoyan Li, Hualin Wang, Yiwei Niu, Yujiao Ye, Qian Chen, Qianchuo Wang, Yurong Wu, Sun Chen, Xi Zhang, Jun Zhang, Kun Sun

“…Background: High maternal plasma perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) concentrations has been associated with adverse birth outcomes, but data on early childhood cardiovascular health is limited. This study aimed to assess the potential association between maternal plasma PFAS concentrations during early pregnancy and cardiovascular development in offspring. …”
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Sertraline in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder by Laura A. Potter, Danielle A. Scholze, Hazel Maridith B. Biag, Andrea Schneider, Andrea Schneider, Andrea Schneider, Yanjun Chen, Danh V. Nguyen, Akash Rajaratnam, Susan M. Rivera, Susan M. Rivera, Patrick S. Dwyer, Flora Tassone, Flora Tassone, Reem R. Al Olaby, Nimrah S. Choudhary, Maria J. Salcedo-Arellano, Randi J. Hagerman, Randi J. Hagerman

“…For the 6-month period, treatment in young children with ASD appears safe, although the long-term side effects of low-dose sertraline in early childhood are unknown.Clinical Trial Registration:www.ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier NCT02385799.…”
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Differential regulation of MYC expression by PKHD1/Pkhd1 in human and mouse kidneys: phenotypic implications for recessive polycystic kidney disease by Naoe Harafuji, Chaozhe Yang, Maoqing Wu, Girija Thiruvengadam, Heather Gordish-Dressman, R. Griffin Thompson, P. Darwin Bell, Avi Z. Rosenberg, Claudia Dafinger, Max C. Liebau, Zsuzsanna Bebok, Ljubica Caldovic, Ljubica Caldovic, Lisa M. Guay-Woodford, Lisa M. Guay-Woodford

“…Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD; MIM#263200) is a severe, hereditary, hepato-renal fibrocystic disorder that leads to early childhood morbidity and mortality. Typical forms of ARPKD are caused by pathogenic variants in the PKHD1 gene, which encodes the fibrocystin/polyductin (FPC) protein. …”
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Longitudinal association of childhood physical activity and physical fitness with physical activity in adolescence: insights from the IDEFICS/I.Family study by Becky Breau, Mirko Brandes, Toomas Veidebaum, Michael Tornaritis, Luis A. Moreno, Dénes Molnár, Lauren Lissner, Gabriele Eiben, Fabio Lauria, Jaakko Kaprio, Stefaan De Henauw, Wolfgang Ahrens, Christoph Buck, on behalf of the IDEFICS/I.Family consortia

“…Abstract Background This study aimed to examine associations of early childhood physical fitness and physical activity (PA) with PA during later childhood/early adolescence while accounting for gender differences. …”
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OUT DOOR AS LEARNING LEARNING CHARACTER CHILDREN EARLY CHILDREN AGE (Study Case in KB Nur Hidayah District of Kuningan) by nunung nuryati

“…Early childhood is a golden age called golden age. At this time the growth and development of children is very rapid and closely interconnected with each other such as physical growth, motor, emotional social, cognitive, language, and art. …”
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Maternal distress and parenting during COVID-19: differential effects related to pre-pandemic distress? by Ann Low, Yue Yu, Lit Wee Sim, Jean Francois Bureau, Ngiap Chuan Tan, Helen Chen, Yang Yang, Bobby Cheon, Kerry Lee, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Stella Tsotsi, Anne Rifkin-Graboi

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Intergenerational Transmission of Effects of Women's Stressors During Pregnancy: Child Psychopathology and the Protective Role of Parenting by Shaikh I. Ahmad, Emily W. Shih, Kaja Z. LeWinn, Luisa Rivera, J. Carolyn Graff, J. Carolyn Graff, W. Alex Mason, Catherine J. Karr, Catherine J. Karr, Sheela Sathyanarayana, Sheela Sathyanarayana, Frances A. Tylavsky, Nicole R. Bush, Nicole R. Bush

“…The present study examined intergenerational associations between women's prenatal stressors and child executive functioning and externalizing problems, testing maternal parenting quality and child sex as moderators, using a large, prospective, sociodemographically diverse cohort.MethodsWe used data from 1,034 mother-child dyads (64% Black, 30% White) from the Conditions Affecting Neurocognitive Development and Learning in Early Childhood (CANDLE) pregnancy cohort within the ECHO PATHWAYS consortium. …”
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A Case Report of Blau Syndrome by LI Guozhuang, XU Kexin, ZHAO Sen, ZHANG Jianguo, QIU Guixing, SUI Ruifang, WANG Tao, SHEN Min, ZENG Xuejun, WANG Wei, MA Mingsheng, WEI Min, LONG Xiao, LYU Ke, HUO Li, XUAN Lei, WU Nan

“…In this multidisciplinary consultation, we present a case of a 21-year-old young female patient having multisystemic involvement since early childhood. She was presented with multiple joint swelling, skin lesions, increased eye discharge, and accompanied by hypertension and arterial abnormalities, and received a diagnosis of uveitis. …”
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Developing an intervention to improve the quality of childcare centers in resource-poor urban settings: a mixed methods study in Nairobi, Kenya by Linda Oloo, Helen Elsey, Mary Abboah-Offei, Mary Abboah-Offei, Martin Kiyeng, Patrick Amboka, Kenneth Okelo, Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo, Elizabeth Kimani-Murage, Nelson Langa't, Margaret Nampijja

“…Home-based center providers were the least likely to be trained in early childhood development (20%), hence the co-designed intervention focused on supporting these centers. …”
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Functional Connectivity Alterations between Networks and Associations with Infant Immune Health within Networks in HIV Infected Children on Early Treatment: A Study at 7 Years by Jadrana T. F. Toich, Paul A. Taylor, Paul A. Taylor, Paul A. Taylor, Martha J. Holmes, Suril Gohel, Mark F. Cotton, Els Dobbels, Barbara Laughton, Francesca Little, Andre J. W. van der Kouwe, Bharat Biswal, Ernesta M. Meintjes

“…Although HIV has been shown to impact brain connectivity in adults and youth, it is not yet known to what extent long-term early antiretroviral therapy (ART) may alter these effects, especially during rapid brain development in early childhood. Using both independent component analysis (ICA) and seed-based correlation analysis (SCA), we examine the effects of HIV infection in conjunction with early ART on resting state functional connectivity (FC) in 7 year old children. …”
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