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Assessment and Evaluation of the High Risk Neonate: The NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale
Published on: August 25, 2014
[COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH IN BABIES OF EARLY PRESCHOOL AGE]
Insights
Child health, a key national safety indicator, is influenced by socioeconomic and environmental factors. Early childhood morbidity and physical development are significantly impacted by family structure and maternal status.
Area of Science:
- Pediatrics and Child Health
- Public Health
- Socioeconomic Determinants of Health
Context:
- Child population health is a critical component of national security.
- Early childhood morbidity reflects complex interactions of economic, ecological, social, hygienic, and healthcare organizational factors.
- Assessing health requires evaluating morbidity, physical development, and their links to family structure and social status.
Purpose:
- To comprehensively assess the health of children aged 0-3 years.
- To analyze the interrelationship between morbidity, physical development, family structure, and social status.
- To identify risk factors affecting early childhood health outcomes.
Summary:
- Boys exhibited superior physical development compared to girls across all age groups (p < 0.05).
- Body weight significantly increased with age (p < 0.05).
- Morbidity was highest in the first year of life, decreasing by the third year.
- Respiratory diseases were prevalent, with their proportion increasing by the third year.
- Children from single-mother or adolescent-mother households experienced higher rates of digestive, infectious, and parasitic diseases compared to those from two-parent families.
- Overall health status was poorer in children from non-traditional family structures.
Impact:
- Findings underscore the vulnerability of children in non-traditional family structures, highlighting disparities in health outcomes.
- The study substantiates the need for a multilevel system to prevent health loss in early childhood.
- Results provide evidence for targeted public health interventions and social support programs for at-risk families.
Abstract:
Health of the children's population is one of the most important components of safety of the country. The incidence level in children of early age reflects an interaction of economic, ecological, social and hygienic and medico-organizational factors in society. The issue of the paper is the comprehensive assessment of health of children of the first three years of life upon indices of the morbidity rate, physical development, interrelation of given indices with the structure of the family and their social status. Indices of the physical development of boys in the all age groups exceeded the corresponding indices in girls (p < 0.05). There was also statistically significant and augmentation of indices of body weights of children along with the age (p < 0.05). The highest morbidity rate in children was established in the first year of life, the minimal one--in the third year. In the all age groups diseases of respiratory organs prevailed, at this their proportion in the total amount of diseases in the third year of life considerably exceeded the same in first and second years of life. The highest incidences of children took place in the families formed by juvenile and lonely women. Diseases of digestive organs in the second and third years of life in children from juvenile and lonely mothers were considerably enlarged on frequency (by 1,4-1,7 times), infectious and parasitic diseases (by 1,1-1,7 times) in comparison with children from full families. In the all studied types offamilies and age groups the state of health of children was worse, than in full families. There was substantiated the development of the multilevel system for the prophylaxis of losses of health in children at early preschool age.
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