Consequences of Stress on Children's Development

Stress is a key factor on how a child may develop. I can remember as a child being isolated from other children. This was not a very good feeling and it was not easy to deal with I didn't have many friends and I really did not want any being that so many children were so mean especially if you did not fit into their environment, depending on how you look, how you dresses, there were many stressor that determine if you could be apart or not. I had to learned how to cope with this through counseling and realize that I am just as much as important as they are. But even through that i still found myself in a shell and right now to this day I still find myself just wanting to be along.

Africa is a country that I would lie to learn more about. One stressor that I found to be big in Africa is disease this is one of the most factor that has a high risk on child development. Africa is one of the highest population in the world but, it is one number one with disease especially HIV/AIDS many children are at risk and malnutrition. Children between the age 1 to 5 are left without care because their parents has pass away these children are left to try and survive on their own. Eight of the countries over in Africa are now getting support through the (ECCD)the Africa Early Childhood Care and Development Initiative. Africa is affected by the conditions of the war, poverty, not enough food, isolation, and disease and children that are under the age of six years old not prepared for mentally or physically for school and the fact that there is not much education for the children at all.

Child Development and Public Health

Public health is one of the number one issue to today that should always be addressed. Immunization plays a vital role in child's life. many children need to be vaccinated to help prevent diseases. Immunization is a public health issue that is very important me because parents should make sure that their children get vaccinated to help prevent infectious diseases that can cause great harm to a child or even cause death. Many children can get infected with diseases if they don't get their immunizations done. 100 million children in Miking China will be vaccinated for measles, this is one of the worlds biggest public health issue. the have a campaign to help protect million of children against diseases and to reach a goal to eliminate measles in 2012. In 2009 more than 52,000 people in China was reported to have measles. Measles is one of the contagious diseases in 2008  164,000 people died from measles and mostly children that where under the age of five. This information impact my work in many was being that I own a childcare facility in the local area we have to make that each and every child have their immunizations if a child does not have them they are not allow to attend school.  www.unicef.org/media/media_55859.html