Medical News Today
April 24, 2008
A new report on trends in early and middle childhood in the US suggests that a number of health, wellbeing, education, family and social indicators are improving, but there are one or two critical areas where things are seriously wrong, such as the childhood obesity crisis and the rising number of low birthweight babies.
The report, titled "Trends in Infancy/Early Childhood and Middle Childhood Well-Being, 1994-2006", is a Foundation for Child Development's Special Focus Report, and is available from today, 24th April, as a download.
The report comes from the Foundation for Child Development Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI) Project, which produces a composite index of trends in the wellbeing of American children over their first ten years of life.