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: Received: 1 April 2024 / Approved: 1 April 2024 / Online: 2 April 2024 (10:06:27 CEST)
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McConkey, R. Creating Family-Centred Support for Preschoolers with Developmental Disabilities in Low-Income Countries: A Rapid Review to Guide Practitioners. Preprints2024, 2024040068. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0068.v1
McConkey, R. Creating Family-Centred Support for Preschoolers with Developmental Disabilities in Low-Income Countries: A Rapid Review to Guide Practitioners. Preprints 2024, 2024040068. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0068.v1
McConkey, R. Creating Family-Centred Support for Preschoolers with Developmental Disabilities in Low-Income Countries: A Rapid Review to Guide Practitioners. Preprints2024, 2024040068. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0068.v1
APA Style
McConkey, R. (2024). Creating Family-Centred Support for Preschoolers with Developmental Disabilities in Low-Income Countries: A Rapid Review to Guide Practitioners. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0068.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
McConkey, R. 2024 "Creating Family-Centred Support for Preschoolers with Developmental Disabilities in Low-Income Countries: A Rapid Review to Guide Practitioners" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0068.v1
Abstract
Preschoolers with disabilities and their caregivers have been neglected in health and social service provision in most low-income countries and arguably too in low resourced areas of more affluent nations. Yet as this rapid review of published literature identifies, there are low-cost, evidence-based strategies to address their needs that can be implemented in communities by local people. Five key features of the necessary supports are examined. First the leadership functions required to create and implement the support services. Second, the family-centred, home-based support provided to caregivers and the personnel undertaking this form of support. Third, providing opportunities for peer support to flourish and encouraging the formation of advocacy groups across families. Fourth, mobilizing the support of significant groups within the community; notably traditional healers and leaders; health services and poverty alleviation initiatives. Fifth, devising ways in which preschool educational opportunities can be offered to children as a prelude to their inclusion in primary schools. The review serves a further purpose. It provides an example of how public health researchers and academics could achieve more rapid implementation of evidence-based knowledge into existing and new support services through dissemination to community practitioners.
Public Health and Healthcare, Health Policy and Services
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