Home Visiting Direct

Early Childhood Home Visiting

International Reports & Publications

• Systematic review of international studies (Elkan et al, UK)
• From pregnancy to early childhood: early interventions to enhance the mental health of children and families (UK)
• The Future of Children (USA)
• The Role of Home-Visitation Programs in Improving Health Outcomes for Children and Families (USA)

Systematic review of international studies (Elkan et al, UK)

Elkan, R., Kendrick, D., Hewitt, M., Robinson, J., Tolley, K., Blair, M., Dewey, M., Williams, D., & Brummell, K. (2000). The effectiveness of domiciliary health visiting: a systematic review of international studies and a selective review of the British literature. Health Technology Assessment, 4(13), 1-339.

Thisreport is an extensive review of the general effectiveness and cost effectiveness of home visiting by health visitors in both early childhood and adults – including (for childhood home visiting) meta-analysis of effects for many outcomes including child development, maternal depression, parenting and the quality of the home environment.

http://www.hta.nhsweb.nhs.uk/fullmono/mon413.pdf

From pregnancy to early childhood: early interventions to enhance the mental health of children and families (UK)

Dr. Jacqueline Barnes, Annemarie Freude-Lagevardi
Leopold Muller Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health
Royal Free and University College Medical School
University College London
Sponsored and funded by the Mental Health Foundation
January 2003
ISBN 1 903645 31 X
© 2002 The Mental Health Foundation

The Mental Health Foundation commissioned this report on the basis of its National Enquiry into the Mental Health of Children and Young People, ‘Bright Futures’. It aims to summarise a variety of interventions designed to improve parenting, family functioning and young children’s mental health and to promote thinking about future work rather a definitive summary of existing knowledge. This summary defines the key points from the full report, which comprises two volumes. Volume 1 is a written report and Volume 2 summarises the research in a number of tablesMonday, May 8, 2006 10:41 Mental Health Foundation website: http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk

http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/html/content/pregnancy_early_childhood_report.pdf

The Future of Children (USA)

The David And Lucile Packard Foundation

Volume 9 • Number 1 Spring/Summer 1999

This edition of the web-based journal, The Future of Children, is dedicated to home visiting.

http://www.futureofchildren.org/pubs-info3133/pubs-info.htm?doc_id=78926

The Role of Home-Visitation Programs in Improving Health Outcomes for Children and Families (USA)

American Academy Of Pediatrics, Council on Child and Adolescent Health

Policy statement

This document reports the policy of the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding interventions in childhood and adolescent, including recommendations for home visiting in early childhood.

http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/pediatrics;101/3/486.pdf