The importance of proper nutrition for child development

The purpose of this paper is to determine the relationship between the child development and nutrition. The child development has some serious issues with the proper nutrition. If the children are not supplied with the proper nutrition they will not be able to develop properly. In this context, the parents will also have to be very much aware of the facts that are related in the context of the child development. It is the responsibility of the parents to supply the children with the proper nutrients according to their age and health. The socio-economic standing is very much important in this context as well. The parents have to be well aware of all these things because children are completely dependent on their parents in their early years. In this paper, four sources will be discussed with the annotated bibliography. This is why it is extremely important for the parents to know about the important things.

Source no. 1

Grantham?McGregor, S.M., Fernald, L.C., Kagawa, R. and Walker, S., 2014. Effects of integrated child development and nutrition interventions on child development and nutritional status. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1308(1), pp.11-32.

This source has been written by Sally M. Grantham-McGregor, Lia C.H. Fernald, Rose M.C. Kagawa and Susan Kagawa. This source had been published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. The publication date of this article was on 4^th November in the year 2013 (Grantham?McGregor et al. 2014). 

This source journal article can be taken as a very credible source indeed. The topic has been very well discussed and the important things have been discussed as well. The simulation of health and nutrition services has been described in this journal article properly (Grantham?McGregor et al. 2014). 

The proper methodologies have been used in this source article as well. The methodologies have been used in this journal by conducting the researches on the children. The quality control mechanisms have been discussed over in this journal article as well. The effect of the malnutrition among the children has been very important as well. The benefits and disadvantages of the large scale mechanisms are talked about as well (Grantham?McGregor et al. 2014).  

In this journal article the qualitative methodology has been used as well. The trials have been arranged due to the growth of the children. The children have been tested and the need for improving their health conditions has been discussed as well (Grantham?McGregor et al. 2014). The peer reviewed journals have been used and tools for the quantitative studies had been used for the conducting the secondary research.

Annotated bibliography of credible sources

The early childhood development has been given the most important focus in this journal article. The children from the poorer communities have been the major victims of this malnutrition. The simulation of weight gain has been dealt with for the improvemenmt in the child health.

Source no. 2

Black, M.M., Pérez-Escamilla, R. and Fernandez Rao, S., 2015. Integrating Nutrition and Child Development Interventions: Scientific Basis, Evidence of Impact, and Implementation Considerations–Advances in Nutrition, 6(6), pp.852-859.

This journal article had been published in the month of November in 2015. The name of this journal is the Integrating Nutrition and Child Development Interventions: Scientific Basis, Evidence of Impact, and Implementation Considerations. It had been published in the internationally reviewed journal Advances in Nutrition. The authors of this journal article were Maureen M Black, Rafael Perez-Escamilla and Sylvia Fernandez Rao (Black, Pérez-Escamilla and Rao 2015). 

This source is very much credible as this internationally acknowledged. The important issues in this journal article that have been discussed in this article are the development of the child health, reducing the poverty in many countries. The importance of linear growth among the children, their cognitive development has been discussed as well (Black, Pérez-Escamilla and Rao 2015). 

It is very important to know the child development programs have to be conducted in order to focus on the adult health as well. The socio-economic conditions of the country will also have to be developed as well. The integrated nutrition strategies will have to be implemented properly to attain better outcomes.

There are many biological and environmental threats for the children in the modern world. These factors are very important for the development of the child health through providing the proper nutrition. These essential factors will have to be discussed for the improvement of the society as well (Black, Pérez-Escamilla and Rao 2015). The children will have to be enrolled in the primary education system where they can get the advantage of having nutritional food provided by the concerned governments.

The low and middle class income families suffer the threats of poor health conditions among their children. In this article the secondary research has been conducted with the quantitative methodology using the children from the poor communities and seeing their impact on the health of the children. 

Source no. 3

Ruel, M.T., Alderman, H. and Maternal and Child Nutrition Study Group, 2013. Nutrition-sensitive interventions and programmes: how can they help to accelerate progress in improving maternal and child nutrition?. The Lancet, 382(9891), pp.536-551.

Grantham-McGregor et al. (2014)

This journal article has been taken as a credible resource for the understanding of the topic of the child development and education. It is very important to understand that the child development and nutrition has been considered as one of the important things for the improvement of the children in the early years (Ruel, Alderman and Maternal and Child Nutrition Study Group 2013).

This journal article source had been published in the year 2013 in the month of August. It is required that the nutrition development programs should be taken up so that the children could be supplied with the proper nutrients. Some of the important things that have to be kept in mind are the safety of society and the safety of the children at the first place.

The secondary research has been taken up here for the best practice. The peer reviewed and internationally acclaimed journal articles have been considered to write this article. This is credible and the authors are Dr. Marie T Ruel and Harold Alderman. The poor service quality in some of the areas in developing countries has given the rise to the malnutrition among the children (Ruel, Alderman and Maternal and Child Nutrition Study Group 2013).

The schools in different areas have to implement some school education nutrition programs properly. As the younger children are exposed to some serious illnesses, they should be provided with the proper food and health nutrients. This would improve the health quality of the children to large extents. The nutrition-sensitivity programs should also be implemented as well. The goals for improving the nutritional quality should also be achieved.

Source no. 4

Black, R.E., Victora, C.G., Walker, S.P., Bhutta, Z.A., Christian, P., De Onis, M., Ezzati, M., Grantham-McGregor, S., Katz, J., Martorell, R. and Uauy, R., 2013. Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries. The lancet, 382(9890), pp.427-451.

This source for the journal article on the importance on the child development and nutrition has been taken up for many reasons. This article has been published in the year2013. The authors of this journal are Prof. Robert E Black, Prof Cesar G Victoria, Prof Susan P Walker, Prof Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Prof Parul Christian, Mercdes de Onis, Prof Majid Ezzati, Prof Sally Gtantham-McGregor, Ptof Joanne Katz, Prof. Reynaldo Martorell and Prof. Ricardo Uauy. (Black et al. 2013). 

One of the major issues brought up in this journal article is the lack of maternal and child nutrition in the countries that are still belong to the lower income families. The under nutrition in the various countries have been a very important thing for the downward condition in health for many people (Black et al. 2013). The impact of stunted growth has been a common incident in many cases for the children.

This source article can be taken as a credible source for displaying the different things for the malnutrition and child development in many ways. Children are deeply affected by the malnutrition and ill effects of it. It has also been discussed in this article that the deficiency of the Vitamin A and Zinc could result in the death of children.

The information has been collected from the journals and other important secondary resources. The secondary research has been adopted here. The methodology that has been used here is the quantitative methodology (Black et al. 2013).

Conclusion  

This paper can be concluded by saying that it has presented the annotated bibliography on the subject of the child development and nutrition and its effects on the society and economy of the poor countries. Four sources have been used in this paper for the annotated bibliography section. The four credible sources have been taken from the various journal articles which have been acclaimed internationally. These articles have been described properly. The credibility of the authors has been discussed along with the details about the authors. The importance of the child development has been portrayed properly as well.  This is how the paper has been set up. The sources present the need for the proper methods for bringing the nourishment for the children in poorer countries from the socio-economic perspectives. 

References

Black, M.M., Pérez-Escamilla, R. and Fernandez Rao, S., 2015. Integrating Nutrition and Child Development Interventions: Scientific Basis, Evidence of Impact, and Implementation Considerations–Advances in Nutrition, 6(6), pp.852-859.

Black, R.E., Victora, C.G., Walker, S.P., Bhutta, Z.A., Christian, P., De Onis, M., Ezzati, M., Grantham-McGregor, S., Katz, J., Martorell, R. and Uauy, R., 2013. Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries. The lancet, 382(9890), pp.427-451

Grantham?McGregor, S.M., Fernald, L.C., Kagawa, R. and Walker, S., 2014. Effects of integrated child development and nutrition interventions on child development and nutritional status. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1308(1), pp.11-32

Ruel, M.T., Alderman, H. and Maternal and Child Nutrition Study Group, 2013. Nutrition-sensitive interventions and programmes: how can they help to accelerate progress in improving maternal and child nutrition?. The Lancet, 382(9891), pp.536-551.