The Kindergarten Health Check. All Grown Up, An overview and summary data over 18 years, 2024
Summary
The Kindergarten Health Check. All Grown Up, An overview and summary data over 18 years (2001-2018) is our report on the key findings from the Kindergarten Health Check program covering the first 18 years of comprehensive data collection.
The Kindergarten Health Check (KHC) is a long running cross-sectional survey and universal health assessment of all children enrolled in their first year of fulltime primary education (Kindergarten) in the Australian Capital Territory.
- The KHC is a direct health service (giving parents and their nominated GPs information about the individual child’s health and health risks).
- It is also a population health data set which can be utilised for population surveillance, health service planning and research.
- The ACT is the only jurisdiction which has such a comprehensive dataset for early school aged children.
- Validated standard tools are used to collect data covering chronic illness, population health issues and childhood development and emotional health in ACT Children.
- The data is geocoded and is enabled for record linkage (via Centre for Health Record Linkage CHeReL).
- The KHC is a platform that can be further utilised to: inform and monitor child health and wellbeing initiatives; help the development of innovative models of care; and support child health research in the ACT.