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Early childhood development in Rwanda: a policy analysis of the human rights legal framework

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, January 2016
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Title
Early childhood development in Rwanda: a policy analysis of the human rights legal framework
Published in
BMC Public Health, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12914-016-0076-0
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Agnes Binagwaho, Kirstin W. Scott, Sardis H. Harward

Abstract

Early childhood development (ECD) is a critical period that continues to impact human health and productivity throughout the lifetime. Failing to provide policies and programs that support optimal developmental attainment when such services are financially and logistically feasible can result in negative population health, education and economic consequences that might otherwise be avoided. Rwanda, with its commitment to rights-based policy and program planning, serves as a case study for examination of the national, regional, and global human rights legal frameworks that inform ECD service delivery. In this essay, we summarize key causes and consequences of the loss of early developmental potential and how this relates to the human rights legal framework in Rwanda. We contend that sub-optimal early developmental attainment constitutes a violation of individuals' rights to health, education, and economic prosperity. These rights are widely recognized in global, regional and national human rights instruments, and are guaranteed by Rwanda's constitution. Recent policy implementation by several Rwandan ministries has increased access to health and social services that promote achievement of full developmental potential. These ECD-centric activities are characterized by an integrated approach to strengthening the services provided by several public sectors. Combining population level activities with those at the local level, led by local community health workers and women's councils, can bolster community education and ensure uptake of ECD services. Realization of the human rights to health, education, and economic prosperity requires and benefits from attention to the period of ECD, as early childhood has the potential to be an opportunity for expedient intervention or the first case of human rights neglect in a lifetime of rights violations. Efforts to improve ECD services and outcomes at the population level require multisector collaboration at the highest echelons of government, as well as local education and participation at the community level.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 96 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 11%
Researcher 10 10%
Other 6 6%
Student > Bachelor 5 5%
Other 20 21%
Unknown 21 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 21 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 16%
Unspecified 5 5%
Psychology 3 3%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 24 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 August 2016.
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#6,495,003
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#6,927
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Outputs of similar age
#95,102
of 401,526 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#95
of 262 outputs
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