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How should policymakers, funders, and research teams mobilize to build the evidence base on universal early years services?
Primary health care research & development, Vol.25, e67
2024
PMID: 39655521
Abstract
Health visiting in England is a universal service that aims to promote the healthy development of children aged under five years and safeguard their welfare. We consulted stakeholders about their priorities for research into health visiting and also used these consultations and a literature review to generate a logic model. Parents wanted research to explore how health visiting teams can provide a caring, responsive, accessible service (the mechanisms of change). Policymakers, commissioners, and clinical service leads wanted descriptions and evaluations of currently implemented and ‘gold standard’ health visiting. The challenges to evaluating health visiting (data quality, defining the intervention, measuring appropriate outcomes, and estimating causal effects) mean that quasi-experimental studies that rely on administrative data will likely underestimate impact or even fail to detect impact where it exists. Prospective and experimental studies are needed to understand how health visiting influences infant–parent attachments, breastfeeding, childhood accidents, family nutrition, school readiness, and mental health and well-being.
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- Title
- How should policymakers, funders, and research teams mobilize to build the evidence base on universal early years services?
- Authors/Creators
- Katie Harron - University College LondonSally Kendall - University of KentCatherine Bunting - University College LondonRebecca CassidyJulie AtkinsAmanda Clery - University College LondonEirini-Christina SalonikiFrancesca Cavallaro - Health FoundationHelen Bedford - University College LondonLouise Mc Grath-LoneMengyun Liu - Great Ormond Street HospitalJenny Woodman
- Publication Details
- Primary health care research & development, Vol.25, e67
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 6
- Grant note
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Policy Research Programme: NIHR203450 NIHR Public Health Research Programme: NIHR129901 NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research CentreNIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames: PR-PRU-1217-21301 National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Policy Research ProgrammeNIHR Public Health Research ProgrammeNIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research CentreNIHR Children and Families Policy Research UnitNIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames
This work was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Policy Research Programme (grant number NIHR203450) and NIHR Public Health Research Programme (NIHR129901). This research was supported in part by the NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre. This research benefits from and contributes to the NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit (PR-PRU-1217-21301). ECS was supported by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.
- Identifiers
- 991005722758607891
- Copyright
- © The Author(s), 2024.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Ngangk Yira Institute for Change
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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