Another finding from the EPPSE project was that a type of ECEC provision called integrated centres was having particularly beneficial effects upon children at the start of school.
Despite the SOOAC being a highly integrated, diverse centre, there were some individuals for whom English proficiency was an issue.
In the suburbs of Banda Aceh, Rita Asmidar, a 33-year old midwife, is rushing through the rain toward the health post of Ulee Kareng sub-district, where she always starts her daily activities in the village of Ie Masen by reporting her attendance before opening the services in the Posyandu Plus (integrated health centre).
The availability of trained community health workers is making a difference and providing hope for the 1.8 million children who live far from integrated health centres and hospitals.
A 2013 census of Nigerien health posts and integrated health centres (clinics) confirmed that for the 1997 health posts surveyed, there was almost double the number of Relais to CHWs, and 5 6 Relais for each of the clinics (27).
They also offer an umbrella for raising awareness of professionals, parents and society on the importance of ECD, for replicating across the country the integrated ECD centres and programmes that have been implemented in several municipalities as part of SPIS and for improving systems for early detection and intervention for children with special needs.
Although it has delighted many Parisians, who like the spick and span coloured piping (blue for ventilation, green for water, yellow for electricity, and so on) and the external piazza a fundamental feature designed to integrate the centre into the surrounding Beaubourg quarter in the old heart of Paris it has not entirely pleased the original architects, Lord Rogers and Mr Piano.
The data are directly integrated in two data integration centres, at the University of Greifswald and at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), which will share the task of offering data collection services (including constant on-line support) to the 18 study centres.
The ZSGF is, as the University Women Hospital and the Women's Health Research Institute, integrated in the Centre for Women's Health of the University of Tuebingen.
