Green Spaces and Child Health and Development

During the COVID-19 pandemic, new parents were disproportionately affected due to public health restrictions that changed service accessibility and increased stressors. Yet, minimal research to date has examined specific pandemic-related stressors and experiences of perinatal fathers in naturalistic anonymous settings. An important and relatively novel way parents seek connection and information is through online forum use, which increased during the social isolation of the pandemic. The current study qualitatively analyzed the experiences of perinatal fathers from September to December 2020 (792 posts, 8011 comments) through Framework Analytic Approach to identify unmet support needs during COVID-19 using the online subforum, predaddit. Five main themes emergent in the thematic framework included forum use, COVID-19, psychosocial distress, family functioning, and child health and development, each of which contained related subthemes. Findings highlight the utility of predaddit as a source of information for and interactions of fathers to inform mental health services.

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Addressing inequities in child health and development: towards social justice

BMJ Paediatrics Open ◽

10.1136/bmjpo-2019-000503 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. e000503 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Nick Spencer ◽

Shanti Raman ◽

Bernadette O'Hare ◽

Giorgio Tamburlini

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Life Course ◽

National Level ◽

Health Inequities ◽

Well Being ◽

Health Determinants ◽

Health And Development ◽

The Life Course ◽

The Impact ◽

And Child Health

Inequities have a profound impact on the health and development of children globally. While inequities are greatest in the world’s poorest countries, even in rich nations poorer children have poorer health and developmental outcomes. From birth through childhood to adolescence, morbidity, mortality, growth and development are socially determined, resulting in the most disadvantaged having the highest risk of poor health outcomes. Inequities in childhood impact across the life course. We consider four categories of actions to promote equity: strengthening individuals, strengthening communities, improving living and working conditions, and promoting healthy macropolicies. Inequities can be reduced but action to reduce inequities requires political will. The International Society for Social Paediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP) calls on governments, policy makers, paediatricians and professionals working with children and their organisations to act to reduce child health inequity as a priority. ISSOP recommends the following: governments act to reduce child poverty; ensure rights of all children to healthcare, education and welfare are protected; basic health determinants such as adequate nutrition, clean water and sanitation are available to all children. Paediatric and child health organisations ensure that their members are informed of the impact of inequities on children’s well-being and across the life course; include child health inequities in curricula for professionals in training; publish policy statements relevant to their country on child health inequities; advocate for evidence-based pro-equity interventions using a child rights perspective; advocate for affordable, accessible and quality healthcare for all children; promote research to monitor inequity as well as results of interventions in their child populations. Paediatricians and child health professionals be aware of the impact of social determinants of health on children under their care; ensure their clinical services are accessible and acceptable to all children and families within the constraints of their country’s health services; engage in advocacy at community and national level.

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Perceptions and viewpoints on proceedings of the Fifteenth Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union Debate on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Development, 25–27 July 2010, Kampala, Uganda

BMC Proceedings ◽

10.1186/1753-6561-5-s5-s1 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 5 (Suppl 5) ◽

pp. S1 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Luis Sambo ◽

Joses Kirigia ◽

Georges Ki-Zerbo

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

African Union ◽

Newborn And Child Health ◽

Health And Development ◽

Heads Of State ◽

And Child Health

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The relationship between age of mother and child health and development.

American Journal of Public Health ◽

10.2105/ajph.71.8.810 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 71 (8) ◽

pp. 810-817 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

P B Rothenberg ◽

P E Varga

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Mother And Child Health ◽

Mother And Child ◽

Health And Development ◽

The Relationship ◽

And Child Health

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Impacts of Parental Technoference on Parent-Child Relationships and Child Health and Developmental Outcomes: A Scoping Review Protocol

10.21203/rs.3.rs-430799/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Lyndsay Jerusha MacKay ◽

Jelena Komanchuk ◽

K. Alix Hayden ◽

Nicole Letourneau

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Scoping Review ◽

Developmental Outcomes ◽

Children's Health ◽

Children’S Health ◽

Health And Development ◽

Parent Child Relationships ◽

And Child Health ◽

Parent Child ◽

Research Studies

Abstract Background: With increases in the use of technological devices worldwide, parental technoference is a potential threat to quality of parent-child relationships and children’s health and development. Parental technoference refers to disrupted interactions between a parent and child due to a parent’s use of a technological device. The aim of this scoping review is to map, describe and summarize existing evidence from published research studies on the impacts of parental technoference on parent-child relationships and children’s health and development and to identify limitations in the studies and gaps in the literature. Methods: This scoping review will be conducted in accordance with the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology. A search for relevant research studies will be undertaken in APA PsycInfo, MEDLINE, Central, Cochrane Database for Systematic Reviews, JBI EBP and Embase (OVID). CINAHL (Ebsco) and Scopus will also be searched. Grey and popular literature will be excluded. This review will include primary research studies and review papers published in English with no time limit that identify the impacts of technoference on parent-child relationships and child health and developmental outcomes. Parent participants include primary caregivers, either biological, adopted or foster parents, of children under the age of 18 who engage in technoference. Two reviewers will independently screen titles, abstracts and full texts of studies according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. Disagreements will be resolved through discussion with a third researcher. Data will be extracted into a data charting table including; author(s), year of publication, country, research aim, methodology/design, population and sample size, variables/concepts and corresponding measures and main results. Data will be presented in tables and figures accompanied by a narrative summary. Discussion: The goal of this scoping review is to present an overview of the evidence on impacts of parental technoference on parent-child relationships and child and health developmental outcomes, highlighting the current risk of children of today. It will identify gaps in the literature, inform future research, advise recommendations for parents on technological device use and possibly guide the development of interventions aimed at addressing parental technoference. Systematic review registration: Open Science Framework (10.17605/OSF.IO/QNTS5)

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