{"id":1453,"date":"2014-10-07T04:03:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T04:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2014-10-07T04:17:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T04:17:04","slug":"prevention-and-early-detection-in-young-children-challenges-for-policy-and-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2014\/10\/07\/prevention-and-early-detection-in-young-children-challenges-for-policy-and-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevention and early detection in young children: challenges for policy and practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is now a robust evidence-base to show\u00a0what\u00a0happens to children in the early years has consequences right through the course of\u00a0their lives. Investing in prevention and early intervention is critical.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0children&#8217;s health check is one way of detecting emerging problems and risk factors, and offering treatment\u00a0early in life.<\/p>\n<p>In his editorial piece\u00a0featured in\u00a0the <em>Medical Journal of Australia<\/em>, Professor Oberklaid looks back at the development of the Medicare-funded Healthy Kids Check for four-year-old children and the recent piloting of the Expanded Healthy Kids Check in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Expanded Healthy Kids Check is a chance for parents to talk\u00a0with a health professional\u00a0about their child\u2019s health,\u00a0development and wellbeing\u00a0when\u00a0their\u00a0child is aged\u00a0between three and a half\u00a0and five years old.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Oberklaid admits prevention and early detection is a &#8220;hard sell to government and\u00a0there are many challenges in its implementation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He has\u00a0called for the\u00a0primary health care system\u00a0to be &#8220;at the heart of\u00a0efforts to refocus the health system towards prevention\u00a0and early intervention&#8221; and for the &#8220;government to\u00a0persist with the ongoing review\u00a0and informed evolution of the child health check.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full editorial:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mja.com.au\/journal\/2014\/201\/7\/prevention-and-early-detection-young-children-challenges-policy-and-practice\" target=\"_blank\">Prevention and early detection in young children: challenges for policy and practice<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>More information:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Read Dr Tim Moore&#8217;s evidence paper: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/uploadedFiles\/Main\/Content\/ccch\/PCI_Tim-Moore_Understanding-nature-significance-early-childhood.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Understanding the nature and significance of early childhood: New evidence and its implications<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read Professor Oberklaid&#8217;s<span style=\"color: #494949\">\u00a0blog post:\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #737f57\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openforum.com.au\/content\/better-educational-outcomes-start-early\" target=\"_blank\">Better educational outcomes: Start early<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Watch Professor Oberklaid&#8217;s talk about the importance of the early years in the\u00a0online forum:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2014\/09\/16\/online-forum-putting-a-value-on-early-childhood-education-and-care-in-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Putting a value on early childhood education and care in Australia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre Director Professor Frank Oberklaids calls for further review and development of the Australian Government&#8217;s Healthy Kids Check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5935,5937],"tags":[11949,5963,11952,11953],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-and-papers","category-media","tag-early-childhood-development","tag-early-intervention","tag-frank-oberklaid","tag-healthy-kids-check"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}