From conception to two-year-old: the development that a child goes through in its first 1000 days is fundamental to the further growth and development in the child’s life and health. On the national and regional levels, parties in maternity care, youth care, and municipalities are working together to give children the most promising start possible. The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport presented the national action programme Promising Start (Kansrijke Start) in September 2018, with a follow-up presented in June 2022. The approach focusses on the assistance needs of parents and parents-to-be who are in vulnerable situations.
Since 2019, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) has tracked the extent to which activities have been set up, how the health of parents and children has developed, and what the experiences with the Promising Start action programme have been. At Health Campus The Hague, we are doing supplemental and depth research within the context of Joyce’s dissertation research and adjacent projects
