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Child Health - Key documents/organisations
YHPHO is the lead PHO for Children and Young People. Child health looks at the health of a population group, and therefore considers all aspects of public health in relation to this group. Themes within this subject may therefore include:
Vaccination
Health inequalities
Accidental injury
Hospital admissions
Oral health
Nutrition
Physical activity
Substance abuse
Rather than listing specific sources this section signposts the user to useful resources, organisations and relevant producers of information related to the health of children and young people.
Latest APHO Publication - How healthy are children and young people in England?
The Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO) collected information and statistics to see how children and young people’s health varied according to the area they live in as well as other factors, like poverty. The research compares the health of children and young people living in different parts of England with those living in other European countries.
Links to Areas Covered
Policy areas
Organisations
Child Health - Key data resources and surveys
Evidence resources
Policy areas
National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services,
Department of Health
The Children's NSF, published on 15 September 2004, sets standards for children's health and social services, and the interface of those services with education.
http://www.yhpho.org.uk/viewResource.aspx?id=129
Children's Services, Department of Health
Health and social care topic section on children's services.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/HealthAndSocialCareTopics/ChildrenServices/fs/en
Every Child Matters, Department for Education and Skills
Every Child Matters: Change for Children is a new approach to the well-being of children and young people from birth to age 19. Led by the Department for Education and Skills, Every Child Matters is cross-Government working with local partners to achieve better outcomes for children and young people.
http://www.everychildmatters.org.uk
Wired for Health: helping schools to become healthy and effective
Wired for Health is a series of websites developed by the Department of Health and the Department for Education and Skills. The websites provide health information for a range of audiences that relates to the National Curriculum and the National Healthy Schools Programme.
http://www.wiredforhealth.gov.uk
Sure Start
Sure Start is the Government's programme to deliver the best start in life for every child by bringing together: early education, childcare, health and family support.
http://www.surestart.gov.uk
Children Act 2004
Includes provision to increase co-operation to improve well-being and arrangements to safeguard and promote welfare.
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2004/20040031.htm
Organisations
Institute of Child Health
A partnership between Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust and University College London the Institute for Child Health is an international centre of excellence for treating sick children and training children's specialists.
http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk
Together they have established the Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health, which aimes to increase the provision of effective and efficient child health care through an educational programme for health professionals.
http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/academicunits/Centre_for_evidence_based_child_health/Homepage
Public Health Collaborating Centre for Maternal and Child Nutrition
Supported by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence the Centre aims to find the best ways to reduce health inequalities and promote health by developing and maintaining reviews of current evidence, producing guidance based on this evidence, and helping to develop professional practice by improving maternal and child nutrition.
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/mcncc/index.htm
National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health
The Centre's aim is to improve the health of women and children by developing the best evidence-based guidelines for the NHS in England and Wales. It is one of seven National Collaborating Centres funded by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
http://www.ncc-wch.org.uk/
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
The main objects of the College are to advance the art and science of paediatrics, improve standards of medical care to children, and to educate and examine doctors in paediatrics.
http://www.rcpch.ac.uk
The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
´Advancing the study of child and adolescent mental health´
The Association's objectives are to advance the scientific study of child and adolescent mental health and disseminate its findings through the media of meetings and publications.
http://www.acamh.org.uk/
Child Public Health Special Interest Group
C-PHIG is a group dedicated to the development of child public health within both paediatrics and public health
http://www.cphig.org.uk/
National Children's Bureau
Putting children and young people first.
An umbrella body for organisations working with children and young people in England & Northern Ireland. Through working in partnership, sharing knowledge, resources and services they have created a powerful, authoritative and influential voice to improve the lives of children and young people.
http://www.ncb.org.uk/
The NCB produces Child Data - 'Information that makes a difference' - a central repository of information including a library catalogue, directory of organisations, lists of conferences and events and children in the news.
http://www.childdata.org.uk/contents.asp
British Paediatric Surveillance Unit
The Unit undertakes active surveillance of rare paediatric disorders.
http://bpsu.inopsu.com/index.html
child-health
Discussion list on child health, hosted by jiscmail.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/child-health.html
Child Health Informatics Centre (CHIC)
CHIS is an organisation dedicated to promoting good practice in the management of child health information.
http://www.chiconsortium.org.uk/aboutus.html
World Health Organisation: Child and Adolescent Health and Development
This WHO department is responsible for interventions concerning health, growth and development outcomes for the group from birth to 19 years.
http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/
Child Health - Key data resources and surveys
Child Health Report, Association of Public Health Observatories
The report presents 22 indicators relating to the health and well-being of children and young people. The report makes a number of recommendations for future development around data collection and analysis, focussing particularly on the health and well-being of vulnerable children and children living in special circumstances.
http://www.yhpho.org.uk/viewResource.aspx?id=729
The Compendium of Clinical and Health Indicators, National Centre for Health Outcomes Development
This is an annual set of some 500 comparative health indicators at national and sub national level. Many of the indicators are provided by age band, and many relate directly to child health, such as: vaccination rates; emergency admissions to hospital for children with gastroenteritis; mortality in infancy; oral health in children.
http://www.nchod.nhs.uk/
NHS staff with access to NHSNet should visit
http://nww.nchod.nhs.uk/
Children and young people statistical returns, Department for Education and Skills
Provides access links to a range of DfES children's social services statistical returns and to information on the latest statistical developments.
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/datastats1/guidelines/children/index.shtml
The Health of Children and Young People, ONS
This contains analysis of health and health-related behaviour among those aged under 20 years in the UK during the period 1990 to 2001. It uses data from various ONS surveys and surveys conducted by other government departments.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/children
The Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in Great Britain, ONS
The results of this survey present prevalence rates of the main childhood mental disorders, determines the impact and burden of children's mental health problems and examines the use of services.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=3983&More=N
Child Health Statistics, ONS
This report brings together data to paint a picture of children's health today.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=6868&Pos=&ColRank=1&Rank=422
The Good Childhood Inquiry, The Children's Society
This is the UK's first independent national inquiry into childhood. The inquiry aims to renew society's understanding of childhood for the twenty-first century to inform. Improve and inspire all our relationships with children
http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/what+we+do/The+good+childhood+inquiry/
Indicator Search Tool, YHPHO
This tool, produced by YHPHO, brings together a range of national indicator sets relating to key policy areas relevant to public health. Indicators and targets relevant to child health can be found by selecting 'Children and maternal health' from the 'theme' drop-down list.
http://www.yhpho.org.uk/indicatorsearchtool.aspx
Evidence resources
Public Health Research Consortium
The Consortium brings together senior researchers from 10 UK institutions in a new integrated programme of research. This aims to strengthen the evidence base for interventions to improve health, with a strong emphasis on tackling socioeconomic inequalities in health. The main research streams are obesity, smoking and workplace, including how to address barriers to behavioural change in population groups such as children and young people. The Institute of Child Health is a key collaborator in the project.
http://www.york.ac.uk/phrc/index.htm
National Library for Health (NLH) - Child Health and Paediatrics Specialist Library
NHS NLH Specialist Library for Child Health. The library addresses a wide range of topics related to the health and well being of children. It is primarily aimed at professionals involved in the care of children, but it is hoped that it will be of value to all users when seeking information on a wide variety of aspects of child health.
http://www.library.nhs.uk/childhealth/
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Since the transfer of the Health Development Agency to NICE in 2005, NICE has programmes for Public Health Guidance and Public Health Intervention Guidance. Many of these focus on children and young people, for example Promotion of physical activity in children and Mental health and young people. http://www.publichealth.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=295813
Much of the evidence previously published by the HDA is also available on the NICE website. Many of these relate to children and young people; as there are about 100 documents they are too numerous to list individually here and can be searched at:
http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=hda.publications
Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)
´Improving the health of mothers, babies and children´
CEMACH aims to improve the health of mothers, babies and children by carrying out confidential enquiries on a nationwide basis and by widely disseminating findings and recommendations.
http://www.cemach.org.uk/
Updated 24/07/07