Day one: Vitamin D – does it help our children

Presented by Associate Prof Cameron Grant

The objectives of this presentation are to enable you to: 1. Recognise that vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy and infancy is a global problem and understand why vitamin D status is poorer in New Zealand than in many other developed countries. 2. Demonstrate the potential for vitamin D status to be a determinant of respiratory health in early childhood. 3. Conclude that vitamin D supplementation has the potential to improve child respiratory health in New Zealand.