Early Childhood Health Interventions in the Primary Care Setting Promote Developmental Outcomes

The science of early childhood development has exploded in recent years. There is no period in the human lifespan that matches the rapid brain development of the first years of life. Synaptogenesis occurs at a rate of 1 million per second in infancy, and early development provides the circuitry that becomes the foundation for more complex subsequent development.1 This development does not occur in a vacuum—each child's development occurs in the context of the complex interactions among biology, culture, and experiences, particularly caregiving experiences, with different interactions conferring risk or resilience to the developing child.

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