Research, policy, and practice would move forward in concert by accepting the widespread, long-term causes and consequences of vulnerability and resilience from multiple sources and requiring multiple, integrated interventions.
Such integrated interventions have been shown to reduce the disabling impact of post-traumatic stress on mothers' ability to nurse and feed their children.
"This approach requires integrated interventions," he asserted.
46 Clinically integrated interventions are also required.
The focus is on providing integrated interventions addressing aspects of a child's survival and development.
Says Seal, "We need integrated interventions that acknowledge the reality of a mother's established feeding decisions".
Such implementation requires integrated interventions across facilities and levels of government, and with communities.
Nevertheless, few in-depth studies have supported integrated interventions for both phenomena, in particular among Latin American women.
In 2014 more countries integrated interventions during AVW efforts after media campaigns supported by WHO regional and sub-regional offices.
It is important therefore to formulate integrated interventions that are directed towards a child, a family and a community, through the education, health, protection, and justice systems.
"The holistic nature of ECD demands integrated interventions systemically, as all the different development areas – physical, cognitive, social – are so strongly interrelated".
