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  • Changes to the Healthy Kids Check: will we get it right?

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    Daubney, Michael F
    Cameron, Cate M
    Scuffham, Paul A
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    Scuffham, Paul A.
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    In 2011, the Australian Government announced plans to change the voluntary Healthy Kids Check (HKCheck) during 2012–2013,1 by lowering the age of screening to children aged 3 years and incorporating elements of social and emotional wellbeing. The HKCheck will be conducted by general practitioners, practice nurses and Aboriginal health workers, and will cost about $11 million over 5 years.2 The Expert Working Group developing the HKCheck has not made public what the check comprises and what screening will be involved. While the first media release focused on 3-year-olds and “social and emotional development”, the most recent ...
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    In 2011, the Australian Government announced plans to change the voluntary Healthy Kids Check (HKCheck) during 2012–2013,1 by lowering the age of screening to children aged 3 years and incorporating elements of social and emotional wellbeing. The HKCheck will be conducted by general practitioners, practice nurses and Aboriginal health workers, and will cost about $11 million over 5 years.2 The Expert Working Group developing the HKCheck has not made public what the check comprises and what screening will be involved. While the first media release focused on 3-year-olds and “social and emotional development”, the most recent release (March 2013) announced that the expanded HKCheck will be phased in initially in eight Medicare Local areas in 2013, and the target group will be children aged from 3 to 5 years.3
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    Journal Title
    Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume
    198
    Issue
    9
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.5694/mja12.11455
    Copyright Statement
    Daubney MF, Cameron CM and Scuffham PA. Changes to the Healthy Kids Check: will we get it right? Med J Aust 2013; 198 (9): 475-477. © Copyright 2013 The Medical Journal of Australia – reproduced with permission.
    Subject
    Biomedical and clinical sciences
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/57476
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