Question group
Physical Health
Questions in this group:
Physical Health
Early Childhood Development (ECD): How do physical health and early developmental outcomes for infants and young children who are experiencing care vary by caring environment and age at first experience of the ‘care system’, and what factors influence these differences?
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Physical Health
Experiences of services and support: To what extent do continuity of care and trust in health professionals, including across the transition out of care, impact on care experienced children and young people’s physical health outcomes?
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Physical Health
Continuity and access to services: How do key transition points – including moves between homes, stability of caring environments, changes in professional support, leaving care, and moving from child to adult health services – affect continuity of physical health support, engagement with services, and health outcomes for care‑experienced young people? What models of health transition planning and support for care‑experienced young people (for example at the point of leaving care or moving into adult services) have been most effective in maintaining connection, engagement, and trust in health services?
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Physical Health
Identification of need and prevention: How ‘adoptee-competent’ are health services and health professionals? Do they understand the impact of adopted children and young people’s early trauma and neglect and the implications of unknown family medical histories?
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Physical Health
Identification of need and prevention: What is the prevalence of physical and neurodevelopmental health conditions among children living cross-border in residential caring environments, compared with those living within their home jurisdiction?
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Physical Health
Identification of need and prevention: What approaches have been used internationally to use administrative health data to target preventive support for children, and what strengths and limitations do these approaches present in the context of care experienced populations?
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Physical Health
Identification of need and prevention: What more can we learn about access to services and health outcomes that are under-represented in current data, including preventative care and early interventions, as well as how access and engagement change when young people leave care (e.g. access to dental health and dental health outcomes; immunisations; sexual and reproductive health service use and outcomes; management of long-term conditions)?
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Physical Health
Identification of need and prevention: How can administrative health data be linked, both with other administrative data and with lived experience evidence, to provide a more holistic picture of children’s health, development, and wellbeing from early childhood through to adolescence and across different age cohorts?
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