However, increasingly professionals see a need for a more comprehensive and coordinated approach to monitoring the healthy development of young children. Such an approach would be built on a simple but comprehensive tracking system for all preschool children with regular screening for healthy physical development but also for cognitive and socioemotional development. Regular screening would ensure early identification and treatment of a range of developmental problems. Staying on Track is an example of a community-wide early identification, tracking and referral project. Since governments pay for most health care services, ensuring children's healthy physical development is a good economic investment.
Ensure parents have the economic resources needed for food and shelter for their children.
Fund public health systems to monitor population health and design interventions to promote health and prevent injury and disease. Provide medical services to treat children suffering from injury or disease. Protection from injuries Children's experience of the world during the pre-school years is closely linked to physical exploration and experimentation. Yet children are too young to realize the risks they are taking in many situations. Young children need to be taught what is dangerous and told what they are not allowed to do and why.