Health Promotion International, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1-3,
March 2000
© Oxford University Press 2000
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New millennium's resolution: start young and track fast
The childhood shews the man, As morning shews the day (John Milton (1671), Paradise Regained)
From the very beginnings of time we have known that early childhood experiences set the course for future wellbeing (Bible). Indeed, the origins of the public health movement 150 years ago were founded on the need to protect and promote the health of the young. But over the course of the last century interest in early childhood has both waxed and waned. There have been strong times, e.g. the development of infant welfare, nutrition, antenatal care, paediatric surveillance, immunization, health education and school health services (Catford, 1994
). Yet over the last few decades, in many countries, health policy—and certainly expenditure on health care—has focused more on the end of life than on the beginning.
Encouragingly, a renaissance of interest in the early years is now apparent internationally. This reflects both an expanding evidence
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