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From The Guardian:
 
Evidence-based answers to maternal and child health problems were revealed this month at a symposium on maternal and child health and nutrition in emerging markets at Green Templeton College, Oxford. New evidence allows us to specify optimal environments, health and nutrition regimes, and new criteria for measuring outcomes. The evidence allows us to say that under optimised conditions every child on Earth could have identical prospects for healthy, productive lives irrespective of ethnicity. And because it opens new pathways for human resource development it offers the prospect of healthier, more educable, more productive adult populations, without which long-term economic growth, cohesive societies and political stability cannot be achieved.
 
Governments around the world, particularly those in emerging market economies, need to accept these scientific findings and take a fresh, longer-term perspective on social investment in pre-conception, neonatal, child health and nutrition.
 
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