Fostering the growth, development, health, and wellbeing of children is a global priority. The early childhood period presents a critical window to influence lifelong trajectories, however urgent multisectoral action is needed to ensure that families are adequately supported to nurture their children's growth and development. With a shared vision to give every child the best start in life, thus helping them reach their full developmental potential, we have formed the International Healthy Eating Active Living Matters (HEALing Matters) Alliance. Together, we form a global network of academics and practitioners working across child health and development, and who are dedicated to improving health equity for children and their families. Our goal is to ensure that all families are free from structural inequality and oppression and are empowered to nurture their children's growth and development through healthy eating and physical activity within the context of responsive emotional support, safety and security, and opportunities for early learning. To date, there have been disparate approaches to promoting these objectives across the health, community service, and education sectors. The crucial importance of our collective work is to bring these priorities for early childhood together through multisectoral interventions, and in so doing tackle head on siloed approaches. In this Policy paper, we draw upon extensive research and call for collective action to promote equity and foster positive developmental trajectories for all children. We call for the delivery of evidence-based programs, policies, and services that are co-designed to meet the needs of all children and families and address structural and systemic inequalities. Moving beyond the "what" is needed to foster the best start to life for all children, we provide recommendations of "how" we can do this. Such collective impact will facilitate intergenerational progression that builds human capital in future generations.

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通过健康饮食和积极生活培养儿童的发展：是时候制定政策来支持在响应性情感支持和早期学习的背景下进行有效干预了。


促进儿童的成长、发展、健康和福祉是全球优先事项。儿童早期是影响终身轨迹的关键窗口，但需要采取紧急的多部门行动来确保家庭得到充分支持，以培养孩子的成长和发展。为了给每个孩子最好的人生开端，从而帮助他们充分发挥发展潜力，我们有一个共同的愿景，我们成立了国际健康饮食积极生活问题 （HEALing Matters） 联盟。我们共同形成了一个由致力于儿童健康和发展领域的学者和从业者组成的全球网络，他们致力于改善儿童及其家庭的健康公平。我们的目标是确保所有家庭都没有结构性不平等和压迫，并有权在响应式情感支持、安全和保障以及早期学习机会的背景下，通过健康的饮食和体育活动来培养孩子的成长和发展。迄今为止，在卫生、社区服务和教育部门推广这些目标的方法各不相同。我们集体工作的关键重要性在于通过多部门干预将这些幼儿优先事项整合在一起，并在此过程中正面解决孤立的方法。在这份政策文件中，我们借鉴了广泛的研究，并呼吁采取集体行动来促进公平并促进所有儿童的积极发展轨迹。我们呼吁提供基于证据的计划、政策和服务，这些计划、政策和服务是共同设计的，以满足所有儿童和家庭的需求，并解决结构和系统性不平等问题。 除了为所有儿童培养最佳人生开端所需的 “什么” 之外，我们还提供了 “如何 ”做到这一点的建议。这种集体影响将促进代际进步，从而为子孙后代建立人力资本。