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Examining the social determinants of children's developmental health: protocol for building a pan-Canadian population-based monitoring system for early childhood development

INTRODUCTION: Early childhood is a key period to establish policies and practices that optimise children's health and development, but Canada lacks nationally representative data on social indicators of children's well-being. To address this gap, the Early Development Instrument (EDI), a t...

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Autores principales: Guhn, Martin, Janus, Magdalena, Enns, Jennifer, Brownell, Marni, Forer, Barry, Duku, Eric, Muhajarine, Nazeem, Raos, Rob
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4853992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27130168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012020
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author Guhn, Martin
Janus, Magdalena
Enns, Jennifer
Brownell, Marni
Forer, Barry
Duku, Eric
Muhajarine, Nazeem
Raos, Rob
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Janus, Magdalena
Enns, Jennifer
Brownell, Marni
Forer, Barry
Duku, Eric
Muhajarine, Nazeem
Raos, Rob
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description INTRODUCTION: Early childhood is a key period to establish policies and practices that optimise children's health and development, but Canada lacks nationally representative data on social indicators of children's well-being. To address this gap, the Early Development Instrument (EDI), a teacher-administered questionnaire completed for kindergarten-age children, has been implemented across most Canadian provinces over the past 10 years. The purpose of this protocol is to describe the Canadian Neighbourhoods and Early Child Development (CanNECD) Study, the aims of which are to create a pan-Canadian EDI database to monitor trends over time in children's developmental health and to advance research examining the social determinants of health. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Canada-wide EDI records from 2004 to 2014 (representing over 700 000 children) will be linked to Canada Census and Income Taxfiler data. Variables of socioeconomic status derived from these databases will be used to predict neighbourhood-level EDI vulnerability rates by conducting a series of regression analyses and latent variable models at provincial/territorial and national levels. Where data are available, we will measure the neighbourhood-level change in developmental vulnerability rates over time and model the socioeconomic factors associated with those trends. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Ethics approval for this study was granted by the Behavioural Research Ethics Board at the University of British Columbia. Study findings will be disseminated to key partners, including provincial and federal ministries, schools and school districts, collaborative community groups and the early childhood development research community. The database created as part of this longitudinal population-level monitoring system will allow researchers to associate practices, programmes and policies at school and community levels with trends in developmental health outcomes. The CanNECD Study will guide future early childhood development action and policies, using the database as a tool for formative programme and policy evaluation.
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spelling pubmed-48539922016-05-06 Examining the social determinants of children's developmental health: protocol for building a pan-Canadian population-based monitoring system for early childhood development Guhn, Martin Janus, Magdalena Enns, Jennifer Brownell, Marni Forer, Barry Duku, Eric Muhajarine, Nazeem Raos, Rob BMJ Open Public Health INTRODUCTION: Early childhood is a key period to establish policies and practices that optimise children's health and development, but Canada lacks nationally representative data on social indicators of children's well-being. To address this gap, the Early Development Instrument (EDI), a teacher-administered questionnaire completed for kindergarten-age children, has been implemented across most Canadian provinces over the past 10 years. The purpose of this protocol is to describe the Canadian Neighbourhoods and Early Child Development (CanNECD) Study, the aims of which are to create a pan-Canadian EDI database to monitor trends over time in children's developmental health and to advance research examining the social determinants of health. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Canada-wide EDI records from 2004 to 2014 (representing over 700 000 children) will be linked to Canada Census and Income Taxfiler data. Variables of socioeconomic status derived from these databases will be used to predict neighbourhood-level EDI vulnerability rates by conducting a series of regression analyses and latent variable models at provincial/territorial and national levels. Where data are available, we will measure the neighbourhood-level change in developmental vulnerability rates over time and model the socioeconomic factors associated with those trends. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Ethics approval for this study was granted by the Behavioural Research Ethics Board at the University of British Columbia. Study findings will be disseminated to key partners, including provincial and federal ministries, schools and school districts, collaborative community groups and the early childhood development research community. The database created as part of this longitudinal population-level monitoring system will allow researchers to associate practices, programmes and policies at school and community levels with trends in developmental health outcomes. The CanNECD Study will guide future early childhood development action and policies, using the database as a tool for formative programme and policy evaluation. BMJ Publishing Group 2016-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4853992/ /pubmed/27130168 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012020 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Enns, Jennifer
Brownell, Marni
Forer, Barry
Duku, Eric
Muhajarine, Nazeem
Raos, Rob
Examining the social determinants of children's developmental health: protocol for building a pan-Canadian population-based monitoring system for early childhood development
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4853992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27130168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012020
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