Physical and mental health for young children

The health of babies and young children is at a critical point. Increased levels of poor mental health, high levels of childhood obesity and concerns about infectious diseases all make for a worrying picture of the state of our children’s health. However, there is a great deal that adults who care for and educate babies and young children can do to support and promote good health in practical and low-cost ways. This free course will increase your knowledge and skills and show you ways that adults, both parents and professionals, can play an active role in supporting and promoting good health in babies and young children.The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course survey. Once you complete the course we would also value your feedback and suggestions for future improvement, in our end-of-course survey.  Participation is completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others.  This content forms part of the Dangoor Education collection, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation.  

• Session 1: Promoting the health of all children
• Session 2: Patterns in young children’s health
• Session 3: The benefits of promoting children’s health
• Session 4: Preventable communicable and non-communicable health conditions
• Session 5: Policies and curricula: global and national initiatives to promote babies and children’s health
• Session 6: Introducing the Toolkit to identifying health priorities
• Session 7: Professionals and parents working together
• Session 8: Challenges and solutions to working together to promote children’s health