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Strategies to enhance child and youth health in Sweden
Childcare facilities
Access to harmful products Prevention &
care facilities
School
Child and youth health
Labour market
59% think that these adverts influence young people
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Strategies to enhance child and youth health in Sweden
Childcare facilities
PARENTS
Access to harmful products Prevention &
care facilities
School
Child and youth health
Labour market
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Engaging parents
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Launched April 2009
Aim
• To offer all parents support during the whole child development
– Giving parents knowledge on child health, emotional, cognitive and social development and strengthen parents’ social networks
The Swedish National Strategy to support parents with children 0-17 years
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Why engage parents?
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The Swedish ”paternity leave” reform of 1974
Some strategies
1) Paid parental leave (13 months) + 6 months
2) Implementation of the parental insurance system that also permitted fathers to take paid parental leave.
3) An extended and publicly funded child-care system for all,
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Ref. Swedish Social Insurance Agency, 2008
The share of parental leave in Sweden 1974–2007
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How do we get here?
Do we need to wait for another 35 years?
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Good father = good children?
An active father figure:
• Reduces problem behaviour in boys and
psychological problems in girls
• Reduces criminality in low-income families
• Increases cognitive abilities in children
• Contributes to lower rates of substanse use
among children
Sarkadi et al. Acta Paediatrica. 2005: 97(2)
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Scientific evidence of public health benefits from engaging men in parenthood
Men who took paternity leave:
• had 14.1 fewer sick days off work than men who did not
• had 80% lower risk for alcohol-related care and
disability
• had a 25 % decrease in premature mortality risk
compared to men who did not
(Ref. Månsdotter, et al, Healthy Policy 2007)
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Special attention need to be given to young people with
intellectual disability
Engage more young men in public health practice and
policies
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Young people need to take the
leadership in strategies that
enhance the health of children –
the young people of tommorrow