Publications by authors named "H M Cann"

Article Synopsis
  • - The study focused on the health and development review mandated for children in England at ages 2-2½ years, emphasizing the use of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ-3) to assess early development and gather population-level data on trends and disparities.
  • - Through 15 focus groups involving parents and health professionals, researchers explored experiences and priorities regarding child development measurements during these reviews.
  • - Two main themes emerged: the desire for a comprehensive measurement approach that promotes open discussions about a child's development within the family context, and the need for clarity in the tool's purpose and consistent implementation among practitioners.
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Background: Integrated care can be broadly defined as the delivery of high-quality and safe care for patients as they cross organizational boundaries or when care is delivered with multiple health care teams, professions, or organizations. Successful integration of care services is contingent on multiple and complex factors across macro, meso, and micro levels of health and social care systems in lower-, middle-, and higher-income countries. Previous priorities for the future development of integrated care have focused on designing and implementing models or approaches to integrated care rather than establishing the research needed to underpin them.

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Introduction: Despite a decline in Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy in the UK since 2004, inequalities have widened with higher rates among families from deprived backgrounds and those known to child protection services. Almost all cases involve parents who had engaged in unsafe sleeping practices despite awareness of safer sleeping advice.

Objective: To understand the perspectives surrounding safer sleep of families supported by statutory child protection agencies, and use behavior change theory to inform how approaches to providing safer sleep advice to these families may be modified.

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Genome sequences from diverse human groups are needed to understand the structure of genetic variation in our species and the history of, and relationships between, different populations. We present 929 high-coverage genome sequences from 54 diverse human populations, 26 of which are physically phased using linked-read sequencing. Analyses of these genomes reveal an excess of previously undocumented common genetic variation private to southern Africa, central Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, but an absence of such variants fixed between major geographical regions.

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