Identifying children at risk in Swedish Child Health Services.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Child Health Services plays an important role in identifying at-risk children and intervening early to break negative trends in child health. Sociodemographic risk factors can impact the workload of Child Health Services and affect the possibilities of providing the national child healthcare programme.

Aims

This study aims to present the sociodemographic characteristics of families who are registered within the Child Health Services, as defined by the Child adjusted Care Need Index.

Methods

By collecting personal identification numbers from children six years or younger registered at a child healthcare centre, and combining this with their caregiver's sociodemographic background, this study was able to create a sociodemographic index for each child healthca

SUBMITTER: Wennergren M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12619851 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature