Category: Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO

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Disabilities Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Patient Experience Young People

VIPER: voice, inclusion, participation, empowerment, research

By Participation Works (November 2012)

This report is the result of a three-year long project in which a group of 16 young disabled researchers examined disabled children and young people’s participation and involvement in decision-making and the barriers that prevent them from having a say. The findings provide new evidence that disabled young people are being denied the right to have a say in how local services, such as education, health and leisure are being developed and delivered, and there is still a long way to go to make sure disabled young people can participate meaningfully in strategic and operational decisions about service development.

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Children Good Practice Health Promotion Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Young People

Children and young people's health and wellbeing in changing times: shaping the future and improving outcomes

By NHS Institute (January 2013)

The purpose of this report is to support implementation of the health reforms to improve children and young people’s health and wellbeing. It makes key recommendations and provides support and evidence to national government and bodies, and local organisations and professionals. It shares best practice of where local areas are innovating effectively to improve health outcomes. The report builds on the findings of the CYPHO Forum’s report and urges the Government and national and local bodies to take action in key areas.

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Children Health Promotion Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Safeguarding Well-Being

Children and young people’s emotional health and wellbeing needs assessment

By Liverpool Public Health Observatory (2012)

This needs assessment was produced by Liverpool Public Health Observatory (LPHO) and commissioned by the Merseyside PCTs. The factors that contribute to positive and negative emotional health amongst children and young people are explored under six priority area headings, developed by the Children’s Society. These include having ‘the conditions to learn and develop’ and ‘a safe and suitable home environment’. The needs assessment seeks to paint a picture of need across Merseyside.

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Nutrition Obesity Oral Health Physical Activity

Parents' views on child physical activity and their implications for physical activity parenting interventions: a qualitative study

Bentley, GF. et al. BMC Pediatrics, 2012; 12: 180

Establishing healthy physical activity (PA) behaviours in early childhood is important for future PA behaviours. Parents play a central role in young children’s PA. However, there is currently little research on parenting interventions to increase child PA. This study was formative work to inform the content of a pilot randomised-controlled trial.

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Children Good Practice Health Promotion Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Healthy Settings Nutrition Obesity Value

Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged 5 years and under

By Cochrane Library (Novemebr 2012)

The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and associated adverse events of interventions designed to increase the consumption of fruit and/or vegetables amongst children aged five years and under.

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Child Protection Community Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Local Government Safeguarding Third Sector Well-Being

Protecting people promoting health: a public health approach to violence prevention for England

By Department of Health (2012)

This report presents new figures on the cost of violence, estimating national costs to the NHS and a wider cost to society, in order to provide information and evidence for policy makers and commissioners to use in developing preventative approaches with strategic partners. It aims to increase awareness and strengthen commitment to prevention across government, NHS, local authorities, private and voluntary sectors as well as education, employers and other agencies.

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Children Guidance Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Well-Being Young People

Social and emotional wellbeing for children and young people

By NICE (2012)

This guidance aims to help to strengthen home visiting and early education services, and recommends that health professionals are alert to any factors that may pose a risk to a child’s social and emotional wellbeing. It recommends that each health and wellbeing board should ensure that the social and emotional wellbeing of vulnerable children features in its health and wellbeing strategy, as one of the most effective ways of addressing health inequalities.

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Child Protection Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Well-Being Young People

Running away

By Ofsted (October 2012)

This report documents the views of children living in care and asks why they ran away. As well as this, children in care were asked what they thought the dangers of running away were and what could be done to prevent them running.

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Children Health Promotion Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Maternal

Guidance on data collection for the prenatal pertussis vaccination programme 2012/13

By Department of Health (2012)

This document provides high-level guidance on the collection of data to inform prenatal pertussis public health actions, how a PCT might collect and collate data on the prenatal pertussis vaccination programme, and instruction on how to submit vaccine coverage data via the ImmForm website.

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Asthma Children CVD Health Promotion Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Respiratory Disease Self-Management

Community health workers as drivers of a successful community-based disease management drive

Peretz, PJ. et al. American Journal of Public Health, 2012; 102(8): 1443-1446

In 2005, local leaders in New York City developed the Washington Heights/Inwood Network for Asthma Program to address the burden of asthma in their community. Bilingual community health workers based in community organizations and the local hospital provided culturally appropriate education and support to families who needed help managing asthma. Families participating in the yearlong care coordination program
received comprehensive asthma education, home environmental assessments, trigger reduction strategies, and clinical and social referrals. Since 2006, 472 families have enrolled in the yearlong program. After 12 months, hospitalizations and emergency department visits decreased by more than 50%, and caregiver confidence in controlling the child’s asthma increased to nearly 100%. Key to the program’s success was the commitment and involvement of community partners from program inception to date.

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