Harron, Katie;
Kendall, Sally;
Bunting, Catherine;
Cassidy, Rebecca;
Atkins, Julie;
Clery, Amanda;
Saloniki, Eirini-Christina;
... Woodman, Jenny; + view all
(2024)
How should policymakers, funders, and research teams mobilize to build the evidence base on universal early years services?
Primary Health Care Research & Development
, 25
, Article e67. 10.1017/S1463423624000550.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | How should policymakers, funders, and research teams mobilize to build the evidence base on universal early years services? |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S1463423624000550 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/s1463423624000550 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Primary Health Care, General & Internal Medicine, early years, evaluation, evidence, Healthy Child Programme, health visiting, proportionate universalism, Public health service |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Population, Policy and Practice Dept |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205108 |
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