Development, Human, National Institute of Child Health and (NICHD) definition - medical term
One
of the US National Institutes of Health, NICHD is in a sense the NIH for kids in
that it is concerned with chil d health.
The mission of the NICHD is, in formal terms, to support and conduct "research
on fertility, pregnancy, growth, development, and medical rehabilitation (that)
strives to ensure that every child is born healthy and wanted and grows up free
from disease and disability."
"The NICHD administers a program ...on reproductive biology and population issues;
on prenatal development as well as maternal, child and family health; and on medical
rehabilitation. Institute programs are based on the concepts that adult health and
well-being are determined in large part by episodes early in life, that human development
is continuous throughout life, and that the reproductive processes and the management
of fertility are of major concern, not only to the individual, but to society."
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development was founded in 1963.
It is one of two institutes of the NIH based on life stages. The other is the National
Institute on Aging.
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