The Child Indicators Movement: Past, Present, and Future

Ben‐Arieh, Asher

doi:10.1007/s12187-007-9003-1

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“…[5] Hospital administrative databases are valuable repositories of clinical information that can provide important insights into the health needs of populations [9] and can be used to develop locally relevant indicators of child health and wellbeing. [10] Several international paediatric hospital database studies have highlighted various issues pertinent to child health. [11][12][13][14][15] In SA, a recent analysis of a hospital database documented the burden on adult tertiary medical services in the Western Cape.…”

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Trends in admissions, morbidity and outcomes at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, 2004 - 2013

2017

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Background. Routinely collected patient information has the potential to yield valuable information about health systems and population health, but there have been few comprehensive analyses of paediatric admissions at South African (SA) hospitals. Objectives. To investigate trends in hospitalisation and outcomes at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital (RCWMCH), a major referral hospital for children in the Western Cape and SA. Results. There were 215 536 admissions over 10 years of 129 733 patients. Admissions increased by 9.3%, with increases in the general medical wards (5%), medical specialty wards (74%), the burns unit (73%), and the intensive care unit (16%). In contrast, admissions decreased in the trauma unit (21%) and short-stay medical wards (1%). In-hospital mortality decreased by 54% (p-trend <0.001) over 10 years. Diarrhoea and lower-respiratory tract illness were the most common causes for medical admissions, although admissions and deaths due to these conditions decreased between 2008 and 2013, which coincided with the national introduction of related vaccines. Similarly, tuberculosis admissions and deaths decreased over this period. These trends could be owing to a concurrent decrease in HIV comorbidity (p-trend <0.001). Trauma was the most common reason for surgical admission. Conclusion. Paediatric in-hospital mortality decreased consistently over a decade, despite an overall increase in admissions. Pneumonia and diarrhoea admissions decreased markedly over a 6-year period, but remain the most important causes of hospitalisation.

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Trends in admissions, morbidity and outcomes at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, 2004 - 2013

2017

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“…The CRC assigns children a relevant role in SD and provides a normative concept for understanding child well-being and CD [25,32,33]. Due to the broad spectrum of aspects covered, the rights defined by the CRC are often used as fundamental principles for the assessment of CD and well-being [25]. The NGO Child Right and You [29] further defined these rights by pointing out relevant themes: the right to survival (to life, health, nutrition, name and nationality), the right to development (to education, care, leisure and recreation), the right to protection (from exploitation, abuse and neglect), and the right to participation (to expression, information, thought and religion).…”

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“…A comprehensive assessment of issues that affect the well-being of children is needed to acknowledge and give consideration to children's vulnerability and the strong connection of CD and SD [13]. In recent years, according to the Handbook of Child Well-Being [23], studies related to CD and well-being have undergone five relevant movements: shifting from assessing single aspects, like health, to including multi-dimensional topics, such as child rights and well-being, including positive aspects instead of only negative ones, considering new themes (e.g., participation), reflecting what a child feels and needs from a child's perspective and developing a composite index [24,25]. Several NGOs proposed child well-being indexes to include additional aspects, such as relationships with family, schooling and community, emotional well-being, safety, or social engagement [26][27][28].…”

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Assessing Child Development: A Critical Review and the Sustainable Child Development Index (SCDI)

2015

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Abstract:Children are an important stakeholder group for sustainable development, as they represent the interface between current and future generations. A comprehensive assessment of child development (CD) in the context of sustainable development is still missing. In this paper, as a first step, a literature review is conducted to identify relevant aspects and gaps related to the assessment of CD. The main issues of CD are categorized into seven themes: health, education, safety, economic status, relationships, participation, and newly proposed environmental aspects. The corresponding subthemes and criteria are classified accordingly (e.g., nutrition, child mortality, immunization, etc., are assigned to the theme health). However, gaps in current studies, such as the heterogeneous classification of relevant aspects, regional and societal bias in addressing certain aspects, the limited number of subthemes, and criteria and the missing inclusion of environmental aspects impede the assessment of sustainable child development. To address the existing gaps, a comprehensive framework, the Sustainable Child Development Index (SCDI), is proposed. The SCDI is based on sustainable development as the core value, considers relevant aspects of CD with regard to newly-proposed environmental aspects and includes 26 aspects on an outcome and 37 indicators on a context level to tackle the heterogeneous classifications and interdependencies of relevant aspects. The proposed index intends to strengthen the stakeholder perspective of children in sustainability assessment. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 4974

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“…The initial studies on child well-being tended to concentrate on child survival (Lippman, 2007;Ben-Arieh, 2008) but, over the past 15 years, a theoretical shift has happened to understand the development of children (Lerner & Benson, 2004;Scales & Benson, 2005). Perhaps most important issue for discussion of positive child development is the concept of viewing children as a specific group, which differs from other age groups (e.g., adults, the elderly) and has value in its own right, rather than value only as future adults.…”

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The efficacy of circle of security on attachment and well-being in preschool children

Dehghani¹,

Malekpour²,

Abedi³

et al. 2014

10.5267/j.msl

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The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of Circle of Security (COS) on preschool children's attachment and well-being. 48 mothers with children's age 4 to 6 year were randomly selected through cluster sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (24 mothers and child in each group). Then the experimental group received 20 weekly COS sessions in the center of preschool. The attachment Q-set and Preschool children wellbeing questionnaire (PCWQ) were used as the pretest, post-test and in the course of follow-up. Results of Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) showed that the mean scores of attachment, in the experimental group, was significantly greater than the control group in posttest (P = 0.000) and follow-up (P = 0.002). Results also showed that the scores of well-being in experimental group was significantly greater than the control group in post-test (P = 0.006) and follow-up (P = 0.018). The finding of the study emphasized the importance of training of attachment in improvement of preschool children's attachment and well-being. More studies are suggested to understand better efficacy of maternal behavior on preschool children's well-being.

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The Child Indicators Movement: Past, Present, and Future

Cited by 383 publications

References 20 publications

Trends in admissions, morbidity and outcomes at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, 2004 - 2013

Trends in admissions, morbidity and outcomes at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, 2004 - 2013

Assessing Child Development: A Critical Review and the Sustainable Child Development Index (SCDI)

The efficacy of circle of security on attachment and well-being in preschool children

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