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Early and Middle Childhood

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Pubmed Search Button EMC-1 (Developmental) Increase the proportion of children who are ready for school in all five domains of healthy development: physical development, social-emotional development, approaches to learning, language, and cognitive development (Objective EMC-1)
Pubmed Search Button EMC-2 Increase the proportion of parents who use positive parenting and communicate with their doctors or other health care professionals about positive parenting (Objective EMC-2)
Pubmed Search Button EMC-3 (Developmental) Decrease the proportion of children who have poor quality of sleep (Objective EMC-3)
Pubmed Search Button EMC-4 Increase the proportion of elementary, middle, and senior high schools that require school health education (Objective EMC-4)
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