This grant leverages on insights from NSW Child E-Cohort Project data to support improvements in the planning, delivery and coordination of services and support for mothers, babies, children, and families in NSW.
Key information
- Status: Not open for application
- Grant amount: $350,000
Program objective
- To quantify and describe the health, social and economic profiles of mothers, babies, children, and families in NSW, including families with multiple indicators of disadvantage.
- To quantify the patterns and prevalence of health behaviours and health conditions in mothers, babies, children and families.
- To examine the health, development and wellbeing outcomes of mothers, babies, children, and families in the whole population, as well as higher risk groups.
- To quantify and describe patterns of health and social services received by mothers, babies, children and families from the prenatal period through childhood.
- To develop and assess the utility of risk prediction models for poor health, development and wellbeing outcomes, to inform universal vs. targeted service delivery approaches for at risk populations.
- To evaluate the impact of key policy and service delivery initiatives designed to support the health, development and wellbeing of mothers, babies, children and families in NSW.
- To build the capacity of NSW Health staff to use novel datasets contained in the NSW Child E-Cohort data asset through co-supervision of the proposed Post Doctoral Fellow, close collaboration between the NSW Child E-Cohort project team and the sharing of code for managing and analysing data and other related materials.
This program is funded and administered by NSW Health.