Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Child Dev. 2010 Jan-Feb;81(1):357-67. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01399.x.
Four decades of early childhood policy and program development indicate that evidence-based interventions can improve life outcomes, and dramatic advances in the biological and behavioral sciences now provide an opportunity to augment those impacts. The challenge of reducing the gap between what we know and what we do to promote the healthy development of young children is to view current best practices as a starting point and to leverage scientific concepts to inspire fresh thinking. This article offers an integrated, biodevelopmental framework to promote greater understanding of the antecedents and causal pathways that lead to disparities in health, learning, and behavior in order to inform the development of enhanced theories of change to drive innovation in policies and programs.
四十年的儿童早期政策和项目发展表明，循证干预措施可以改善生活成果，而生物和行为科学的巨大进步现在为增强这些影响提供了机会。缩小我们所知道的和我们为促进幼儿健康发展而采取的行动之间的差距的挑战在于，将当前的最佳实践视为一个起点，并利用科学概念激发新的思维。本文提供了一个综合的生物发展框架，以促进对导致健康、学习和行为差异的前因和因果途径的更深入理解，以便为制定增强的变革理论提供信息，推动政策和项目的创新。
