Development of Public Health Core Outcome Sets for Systems-Wide Promotion of Early Life Health and Wellbeing, CY P10 22 01

We have developed a core outcome set (COS-EY) for systems-wide public health interventions seeking to promote early life health and wellbeing. Research so far has been embedded within the existing systems-based intervention research programme ‘ActEarly’, located in two different areas with high rates of child poverty, Bradford (West Yorkshire) and the Borough of Tower Hamlets (London). 168 potential outcomes were derived from five local government outcome frameworks, a community-led survey and an ActEarly consortium workshop. Through a consensus method (including stakeholders and members of the community), we reduced this down to 34 outcomes.
The resulting COS-EY includes public health outcomes, which are grouped into the domains of: Development & education; Physical health & health behaviours; Mental health; Social environment; Physical environment; Poverty & inequality. This provides the means to increase standardisation across the evaluation of individual interventions within system change approaches. In addition, we plan to assess trends in all COS-EY outcomes using routinely available data to support the evaluation of the ActEarly programme as a whole.

22/03/2021

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