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Projects and activities

Bristol Network for Equality in Early Years Health and Wellbeing Health Integration Team (BoNEE HIT) are undertaking the following projects:

Short term projects (1-3 years)

Oral health

  • Research briefing for the city - reducing inequalities in oral health, educating local policy makers, health professionals and the public
  • Parent education materials encouraging use of dentists
  • Contribute to development of West of England Public Health Partnership oral public health strategy

Early nutrition

  • Seminar on food poverty and food security
  • Securing ongoing funding for universal provision of Healthy Start vitamins
  • Evaluation of Mix Up & Munch materials
  • Develop 0-12 month feeding advice

Social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB)

  • Develop a longitudinal measurement framework (2, 4 and 7 years) for SEWB outcomes, and as a proxy for school readiness
  • Behavioural screening questionnaire dataset for looked after children analysed and results disseminated
  • Develop an intervention for promoting SEWB for 0-24 month olds
  • Contribute SEWB and speech and language outcomes in 2-year checks (in place by 2015)

Medium term projects (3-6 years)

Oral health

  • To scope existing literature and investigate the understanding of oral and dental health in different social and ethnic groups in Bristol
  • Contribute to West of England Public Health Partnership oral public health action plan
  • Establish mechanisms to measure baseline data of decayed, missing and filled teeth (dmft) in five year olds across the city
  • Secure joint research / clinical post in Dental Public Health

Early nutrition

  • Improving dietary quality of 12-48 month olds (fruit and vegetable intake, portion size, avoidance of confectionary and sweetened drinks)
  • Improved rates of breastfeeding initiation and maintenance
  • Improved bottle feeding practice (formula concentration, feeding practice)
  • Monitor inequalities in anthropometric measures in two year check
  • Establish incidence of Vitamin D insufficiency in pregnant mothers and children < 5
  • Increase awareness of food poverty within health workforce

Social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB)

  • Assess whether the use of child and adolescent mental health services and speech and language services varies by ethnicity
  • Prevalence study of SEWB among 2 and 4 year old children, considering inequalities
  • Application for funding for a randomised control trial of SEWB intervention in 0-24 month population
  • Qualitative and process evaluation of primary school based SEWB interventions in Bristol, and review of wider literature

Longer term projects (6-10 years)

Oral health

  • Reduced tooth decay in under 5s in Bristol
  • Reduced extraction of decayed teeth in children under General Anaesthesia (GA) and dmft in first year school children

Early nutrition

  • Improved diet of 6-48 month olds
  • Improved rates of breastfeeding initiation and maintenance
  • Reduce rates of overweight at school entry in key groups (following monitoring of yr 2 developmental check data)
  • Reduce / maintain low incidence of vitamin D insufficiency among pregnant mothers and under 5s

Social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB)

  • Improved SEWB / school readiness
  • Improved SEWB at age 7
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Our partners

Bristol City Council
North Somerset Council
South Gloucestershire Council
University of Bristol
University of the West of England
Sirona
NHS
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group
NHS Blood and Transplant
North Bristol NHS Trust
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
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