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Participation in fitness and sports activities bestows far-reaching benefits on children's growth, physical and mental development, health, skill acquisition, and physical performance. Besides the typical description of common concepts, subjects, and general literature, this book presents a variety of topics associated with physical activity and fitness among children and youth. Work presented in this book ranges from complex descriptions of the role of vitamin D deficiency on children's physical activity and lifelong health to the analyses of the role of motor proficiency among children with an autism spectrum disorder. Some authors report on the association between physical activity and fitness and cognitive function among children while others describe noted differences in selected physical fitness components among children over a span of 30 years. The book also provides empirical insights into the role and status of school sports. While the feasibility and benefits of designed programmes and organized school activities have been demonstrated, the need for targeted specialized interventions and additional knowledge underpins the need for multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral approaches when working with children.

Children --- Health and hygiene. --- Child health --- Health of children --- Puericulture --- Pediatrics --- Care and hygiene --- Health --- Hygiene

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Children --- Child health --- Health of children --- Puericulture --- Pediatrics --- Childhood diseases --- Children's diseases --- Diseases of children --- Juvenile diseases --- Diseases. --- Health and hygiene. --- Care and hygiene --- Health --- Hygiene

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Pediatric dermatology. --- Adolescent medicine. --- Children --- Health and hygiene. --- Child health --- Health of children --- Puericulture --- Pediatrics --- Ephebiatrics --- Medicine --- Teenagers --- Dermatology --- Skin --- Care and hygiene --- Health --- Hygiene --- Diseases --- Dermatologia pediàtrica

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The volume starts with an exploration of the concept of capacity building and goes on to focus on two examples of capacity promotion for early childhood education, care and development (ECD). The First Nations Partnerships Program (FNPP), an innovative and successful post-secondary education program initiated in 1989 at the request of a large tribal council in northern Canada, led to 10 educational deliveries with diverse Indigenous communities over the subsequent two decades. The second program, launched in 1994 at the request of UNICEF headquarters, focuses on sub-Saharan Africa. While the program encompasses a range of capacity-promoting activities, the central vehicle for this ECD development work is the Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU), a program created in 2001 and now in transition to African universities. This book describes approaches to capacity promotion that respond to the complexities and possibilities of communities—at local and country levels. These initiatives challenge established developmental narratives in ECD and international development, and in so doing provide alternative ways for scholars and practitioners in ECD, education, and the broad international development field to enhance capacities.

Puericulture. --- Éducation de la premiere enfance. --- Enfants --- Child care. --- Early childhood education. --- Child development. --- Developpement. --- Child study --- Children --- Development, Child --- Developmental biology --- Education --- Care of children --- Childcare --- Child health --- Health of children --- Puericulture --- Pediatrics --- Development --- Care --- Care and hygiene --- Health --- Hygiene --- Pre-school & kindergarten

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Children --- Teenagers --- Child development. --- Child study --- Development, Child --- Developmental biology --- Adolescent health --- Teen health --- Child health --- Health of children --- Puericulture --- Pediatrics --- Health and hygiene. --- Development --- Care and hygiene --- Health --- Hygiene