Enhancing Child Survival and Development in Lower- and Middle- Income Countries by Achieving Population-Level Behavior Change

This guest editorial from the Journal of Health Communication considers behaviours that can end preventable child deaths and ensure health child development. "These include healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies, giving quality antenatal care and nutrition, making sure newborns are sheltered, breastfed, kept warm, shielded from diseases like HIV, and given proper nourishment, and protecting children with vaccines, bed nets, and antibiotics, as well as supportive caregiving and healthy attachment."

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