Pica of infancy and childhood

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Definition: In this disorder there is a wariness of strangers and social apprehension or anxiety when encountering new, strange, or socially threatening situations. This category should be used only where such fears arise during the early years, and are both unusual in degree and accompanied by problems in social functioning. | Avoidant disorder of childhood or adolescence

Definition: Should be diagnosed when fear of separation constitutes the focus of the anxiety and when such anxiety first arose during the early years of childhood. It is differentiated from normal separation anxiety when it is of a degree (severity) that is statistically unusual (including an abnormal persistence beyond the usual age period), and when it is associated with significant problems in social functioning.

early childhood [ baby | infant | newborn | infant(GEMET) | infants(UNBIS) ]

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Canada Health Care, Early Childhood Development and Other Social Services Funding Act [ An Act respecting the provision of increased funding for health care services, medical equipment, health information and communications technologies, early childhood development and other social services and to amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangem ]

Benign:myoclonic epilepsy in infancy | neonatal convulsions (familial) | Childhood absence epilepsy [pyknolepsy] Epilepsy with grand mal seizures on awakening Juvenile:absence epilepsy | myoclonic epilepsy [impulsive petit mal] | Nonspecific epileptic seizures:atonic | clonic | myoclonic | tonic | tonic-clonic

5. Considers that all Member States should make a major effort to reduce dropout rates, thereby meeting the EU2020 headline targets aiming at a figure below 10 %, by launching high-quality early childhood education, development and care programmes which are appropriate to the age group, cover the entire period of early childhood from birth to the age of 6, and to which equal access is guaranteed for all children; further recalls that, by providing a wide range of extracurricular activities and engaging parents in the educational process, all these measures are vital in order to tackle inequalities arising from early childhood disadvanta ...[+++]ge, avoid educating disadvantaged students in special segregated schools, and stop the reproduction of poverty and social exclusion across generations, which may be monitored with the involvement of relevant stakeholders, such as established local NGOs;

(Return tabled) Question No. 422 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to nutrition in child and adolescent populations in Canada: (a) does government policy include recognition and acceptance of the principle that Canada’s children and adolescents are entitled to nutritious food (i) regardless of where they live, (ii) regardless of their family income, (iii) particularly when economic forces undermine efforts by parents and caregivers to ensure healthy eati ...[+++]ng; (b) given that the 1992 World Declaration on Nutrition, to which Canada was a signatory, states that access to nutritionally adequate and safe food is a right of each individual, what specific actions have the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Health Canada undertaken for children and adolescents in order to fulfill this commitment; (c) what percentage of children and adolescents in Canada is food insecure, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (d) what percentage of children and adolescents lives below the poverty line, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (e) what percentage of children and adolescents has, as a result of living below the poverty line, (i) poor nutritional status, (ii) poor health outcomes due to their poor nutritional status; (f) what percentage of members of each of the following groups is food insecure, (i) child and adolescent newcomers, (ii) children and adolescents who live in poverty, (iii) children and adolescents who live in priority neighbourhoods, (iv) Aboriginal children and adolescents; (g) what percentage of children and adolescents (i) involuntarily misses meals, (ii) lacks healthy variety in its diet; (h) does the government have information, and, if so, what is that information, concerning (i) how (g)(i) and (g)(ii) impact the caloric a ...

1. Emphasises that the foundations for a child's future educational path and well-being are laid in the early years of childhood and can help to instil the idea of lifelong learning, and that early childhood is a time when receptiveness, language learning and the ability to form social contacts – attributes that will be essential in tomorrow's society – should be encouraged so as to facilitate the child's integration into both school and society from an early age, thus combating ESL; reiterates the call contained in its resolution on early years learning in the EU for the development of a European framework for early childhood education ...[+++] and care services from as early an age as possible, particularly through the development of free public crèche and day-care facilities;

For the first time ever at EU level, the Council adopted conclusions on early childhood education and care (9424/11), which focus on the long-term benefits for both individuals and society at large which the provision of generalised access to high-quality early childhood education and care can bring.