Tertiary prevention to reduce adverse outcomes for children and families affected by multi-morbidity and child disability.
Children with long-term conditions or disability account for a large proportion of healthcare costs throughout life. Improving quality of care and quality of life, while containing costs, requires join-up between schools, health and social care services, and carers.
The Children and Families Policy Research Unit builds on previous work on health outcomes for children with long-term conditions to also consider the health and wellbeing of parents and siblings. Projects undertaken allow the team to adopt a life-course approach using both nationally representative birth cohorts based on administrative databases and well-phenotyped regional or national cohorts, scoping studies of local variations in practice, and qualitative research with affected families.
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