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Swedish Child Health Services Register: a quality register for child health services and children's well-being

Mattias Wennergren1,2, Karin Berg3, Ann-Sofie Frisk Cavefors2

  • 1Research, Education, Development and Innovation, Primary Health Care, Region Västra Götaland, Göteborg, Sweden.

BMJ Paediatrics Open
|January 20, 2023
PubMed

Insights

The Swedish Child Health Services Register (BHVQ) shows good data completeness for young children, enabling better evaluation and development of child healthcare services in Sweden.

Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Pediatrics
  • Health Informatics

Background:

  • Swedish child health services (CHS) aim to enhance child well-being through promotion, prevention, and early detection.
  • The national program includes universal, targeted, and indicated interventions for children under six.
  • The Swedish Child Health Services Register (BHVQ), established in 2013, collects real-time data from child health records.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To detail the data available within the BHVQ.
  • To assess the completeness of BHVQ data across various variables.

Main Methods:

  • Child-specific data were extracted from the BHVQ.
  • Data for regional birth cohorts were obtained from Statistics Sweden.
  • Coverage was calculated to evaluate data completeness.

Main Results:

  • The BHVQ contains data for over 110,000 children (2011-2022) from 221 centers in eight regions.
  • Seven of eight regions achieved 100% center reporting.
  • Average data coverage for children born in 2021 was 71%, with variations by region and birth cohort.

Conclusions:

  • The BHVQ is a valuable national resource for evaluating CHS, particularly for younger children.
  • Continuous data collection facilitates monitoring of child health development in Sweden.
  • The BHVQ is essential for developing evidence-based preventive services and improving pediatric healthcare.
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