Gabriela Buccini (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article on "Scaling up of Brazil's Criança Feliz Early Childhood Development Program: An Implementation Science Analysis" in the journal ANNALS of the New York Academy of Sciences.
To address inequities that prevent socioeconomically vulnerable young children from reaching their full developmental potential, Brazil implemented Programa Criança Feliz (PCF) (“Happy Child” early childhood development program) in 2,934 of its 5,570 municipalities. A qualitative case study was carried out on the basis of in‐depth interviews with 22 key informants, employing purposive sampling, from past or current national and state coordination teams.
