Five-Year Trends in US Children's Health and Well-being, 2016-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Ensuring the well-being of the 73 million children in the United States is critical for improving the nation's health and influencing children's long-term outcomes as they grow into adults.

Objective

To examine recent trends in children's health-related measures, including significant changes between 2019 and 2020 that might be attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design, setting, and participants

Annual data were examined from the National Survey of Children's Health (2016-2020), a population-based, nationally representative survey of randomly selected children. Participants were children from birth to age 17 years living in noninstitution settings in all 50 states and the District of Columbia whose parent or caregiver responded to an address-based survey

SUBMITTER: Lebrun-Harris LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8922203 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature