Living in poverty or involvement in the juvenile or criminal justice system were the social complexity risk factors that made children more likely to use EDs, according to findings published in Annals in Family Medicine.
“Screening for social determinants of health is challenging but critically important for optimizing child health outcomes,” Kimberly C. Arthur, MPH, of the Seattle Children’s Research Institute, and colleagues wrote. “We aimed to test the feasibility of using an integrated state agency administrative database to identify social complexity risk factors and examined their relationship to ED use.”
“The long-term impact of adverse childhood experiences and social determinants of health is so significant that it is essential not to miss opportunities to intervene to support families,” Arthur told Healio Family Medicine.
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