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