Early Childhood Interventions: Proven Results, Future Promise

Karoly, Lynn A.; Kilburn, M. Rebecca; Cannon, Jill S.

doi:10.1037/e475852006-001

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“…The ability to bring about measurable change amongst such obviously needy populations is a strong political driver for the spread of discrete programmes, targeted at particular groups of parents who are deemed to be in need of support. Such programmes lend themselves to randomisation and robust evaluation, leading to convincing evidence to support their effectiveness (Karoly et al, 2005, Allen 2010), so policy-makers and service commissioners can be reasonably assured that they will get 'value for money.' However, it is increasingly being realised that such targeted programmes, alone, are insufficient to shift the gradient that occurs in health inequalities.…”

Section: Health Inequalities and Early Yearsmentioning

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Why health visiting? Examining the potential public health benefits from health visiting practice within a universal service: A narrative review of the literature

Cowley

Whittaker

Malone

et al. 2015

International Journal of Nursing Studies

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Please cite this article as: Cowley, S., Whittaker, K., Malone, M., Donetto, S., Grigulis, A., Maben, J.,Why health visiting? Examining the potential public health benefits from health visiting practice within a universal service: a narrative review of the literature., International Journal of Nursing Studies (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.07.013 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Abstract Introduction

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Section: Health Inequalities and Early Yearsmentioning

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Why health visiting? Examining the potential public health benefits from health visiting practice within a universal service: A narrative review of the literature

Cowley

Whittaker

Malone

et al. 2015

International Journal of Nursing Studies

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“…This reflects a smaller reduction in the ECBI score among the 7 families assigned to the IY intervention but who dropped out before completing the programme. 6 For reviews of this and other cost-benefit studies, see [37,43,44].…”

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A cost-effectiveness analysis of the Incredible Years parenting programme in reducing childhood health inequalities

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Early onset of behavioural problems has lasting negative effects on a broad range of lifetime outcomes, placing large costs on individuals, families and society. A number of researchers and policy makers have argued that early interventions aimed at supporting the family is the most effective way of tackling child behaviour problems. This study forms the economic component of a randomised evaluation of the Incredible Years programme, a programme aimed at improving the skills and parenting strategies of parents of children with conduct problems. Our results show that the programme provides a cost-effective way of reducing behavioural problems. Furthermore, our cost analysis, when combined with a consideration of the potential long-run benefits, suggests that investment in such programmes may generate favourable long-run economic returns.

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“…including Head Start has also been shown to have positive and lasting effects on outcomes in childhood and adulthood, especially for children from disadvantaged backgrounds (Karoly et al, 2006;Currie and Thomas, 1995). Our data do not contain information on the quality of the preschool program and so we are unable to differentiate participation in high-quality versus other programs.…”

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Health Endowments and Parental Investments in Infancy and Early Childhood

Datar¹,

Kilburn²,

Loughran³

2006

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This paper tests whether parents reinforce or compensate for child endowments. We employ birth weight as a proxy for endowments and estimate how the difference in birth weight across siblings impacts specific parental investments, including breastfeeding initiation and duration, well-baby visits, immunizations, preschool attendance, and kindergarten entry age. We also examine whether parental investment in a child is impacted by her siblings' endowments. Our results indicate that heavier birth weight children receive higher levels of most parental investment than their lower birth weight siblings suggesting that parental investments in infancy and early childhood reinforce differences in endowments. In one exception, we find weak evidence that lower birth weight children enter kindergarten slightly later than their normal birth weight siblings, which could be interpreted as a compensating parental investment. Presence of a low birth weight sibling in the household increases the likelihood of investments such as well-baby visits and immunizations.3

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Early Childhood Interventions: Proven Results, Future Promise

Cited by 271 publications

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Why health visiting? Examining the potential public health benefits from health visiting practice within a universal service: A narrative review of the literature

Why health visiting? Examining the potential public health benefits from health visiting practice within a universal service: A narrative review of the literature

A cost-effectiveness analysis of the Incredible Years parenting programme in reducing childhood health inequalities

Health Endowments and Parental Investments in Infancy and Early Childhood

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