Assessing the health needs of children and young people accessing paediatric hospital services: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Health needs are issues that face a population or specific groups, which can benefit from healthcare and wider social and environmental changes. They are inextricably linked to health inequalities, which are largely determined by non-health-related factors such as socioeconomic deprivation or belonging to ethnic minority groups. The hospital-accessing paediatric population, with higher rates of morbidity and mortality, are likely to have higher levels of met and unmet health needs related to social determinants, compared with their peers. As the gap in health inequalities widens globally, paediatric health services may now have an increasingly important role to play in identifying and acting on inequalities affecting their patient population. This scoping review aims t

SUBMITTER: Hindocha A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10806587 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature