Identifying children at risk in Swedish Child Health Services.

Background: Child Health Services plays an important role in identifying at-risk children and intervening early to break negative trends in child health. Sociodemographic risk factors can impact the workload of Child Health Services and affect the possibilities of providing the national child healthcare programme.

Aims: This study aims to present the sociodemographic characteristics of families who are registered within the Child Health Services, as defined by the Child adjusted Care Need Index.

Swedish Child Health Services Register: a quality register for child health services and children's well-being.

Background: Swedish child health services (CHS) is a free-of-charge healthcare system that reaches almost all children under the age of 6. The aim for the CHS is to improve children's physical, psychological and social health by promoting health and development, preventing illness and detecting emerging problems early in the child's life. The services are defined in a national programme divided into three parts: universal interventions, targeted interventions and indicated interventions.