Increased rates of unattained developmental milestones among Israeli children between 2016 and 2020: a national report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The early years of children's lives are critical for their healthy development. Although children's growth and development rates may vary, a significant delay during early childhood could indicate a medical or a developmental disorder. Developmental surveillance is used worldwide by healthcare providers in routine encounters, as well as by educators and parents, to elicit concerns about child development. In this work, we used a national dataset of developmental assessments to describe temporal trends of milestone attainment rates and associations between milestone attainment and various sociodemographic factors.

Methods

The study included 1,002,700 children ages birth until 6 years with 4,441,689 developmental visits between the years 2016 and 2020. We used the I

SUBMITTER: Girshovitz I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10740256 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature