The global burden of child and youth deaths remains high, despite dramatic reductions in under-5s deaths, and there are stark inequalities across the globe in the availability of health services to ...

There are predictable “tasks” or processes that are associated with healthy adolescent development, depending on the adolescent phase. As adolescents progress through developmental phases and tasks, ...

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 29 (PTI) The media has an important role in raising awareness about the developmental delays and ...

Researchers at the University of Missouri have reported early results from a feasibility study that followed children whose ...

A case study of Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Nigeria finds the Global Financing Facility has raised attention to adolescent ...

Children living in areas with unhealthy levels of fine particulate matter or ozone showed smaller two-year gains in cognitive performance and brain maturation than demographically matched peers.

Some people believe that parenting doesn’t have that much influence on the child and adolescent’s development. After all, nature can predominate over nurture, and there are so many other factors ...

Physician-scientists at Oregon Health & Science University warn that exposure to air pollution may have serious implications for a child's developing brain. Air pollution causes harmful contaminants, ...

Regular social media use across early adolescence is related to worse reading and vocabulary development over time, according to new research. The study found that adolescents who used social media ...

WASHINGTON — Legal responses to juvenile offending should be grounded in scientific knowledge about adolescent development and tailored to an individual offender's needs and social environment, says a ...

Introduction to qualitative research methods, their philosophical underpinnings, and their implications for understanding human development. The focus will be on identifying, interpreting, and ...