Journal of Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics

Post COVID Nutrition and Developmental Challenges in Early Child Development

Given that the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic is now nearly over in India and that the third wave affected children to some extent, one feels the need to write about ECD with the lens of COVID-19 applied to it. After effects of COVID need to be mitigated from many angles and Early Child Development (ECD) is one of them. Concept of early childhood development is not new. Friedrich Frebel and Canadian singer Raffi Cavoukian coined the term and began to practice it. Soon WHO and UNICEF stressed the need of adopting ECD to achieve SDGs and Lancet published several articles on it. 68 countries including India have adopted it.

Author(s): Mrudula Phadke1*, Rajalakshmi Nair2, Pramila Menon3

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