Irena Girshovitz, Guy Amit, Inbal Goldshtein, Deena R Zimmerman, Ravit Baruch, Pinchas Akiva, Meytal Avgil Tsadok, Yair Sadaka
BACKGROUND: The early years of children's lives are critical for their healthy development. Although children's growth and development rates may vary, a significant delay during early childhood could indicate a medical or a developmental disorder. Developmental surveillance is used worldwide by healthcare providers in routine encounters, as well as by educators and parents, to elicit concerns about child development. In this work, we used a national dataset of developmental assessments to describe temporal trends of milestone attainment rates and associations between milestone attainment and various sociodemographic factors...
December 21, 2023: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research