Childcare and health: a review of using linked national registers
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Childcare and health : a review of using linked national registers. / Kamper-Jørgensen, Mads; Benn, Christine Stabell; Wohlfahrt, Jan.
In: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 39, No. 7 Suppl, 07.2011, p. 126-30.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Childcare and health
T2 - a review of using linked national registers
AU - Kamper-Jørgensen, Mads
AU - Benn, Christine Stabell
AU - Wohlfahrt, Jan
PY - 2011/7
Y1 - 2011/7
N2 - INTRODUCTION: To present the work previously and presently being carried out based on the nationwide Childcare Database.RESEARCH TOPICS: The Childcare Database comprises individually linked Danish register-based data on childcare attendance, childcare facility characteristics, child and family characteristics, and infectious disease hospitalisations. The database includes about 1 million children aged 0-5 years and has, since the creation, been linked with separate disease registers on atopic disease, pneumococcal disease, and childhood cancers. The present paper is a review of epidemiological studies based on the Childcare Database. Studies of childhood infections confirmed that childcare attendance dramatically increases the risk, but emphasised that the increased risk is often transient and confined to subsets of children. Studies of childhood cancers showed that early childhood infections are likely to reduce the risk of childhood leukaemia and that this risk reduction applies to all children.CONCLUSION: The Childcare Database is a unique data source for studying the association between childcare attendance and health outcomes. Further linkage with Danish registers is possible on an individual level. The studies based on the Childcare Database confirm and extend previous findings of an increased risk of infection associated with childcare attendance, as well as point towards a possible protective role of early infections in childhood cancer.
AB - INTRODUCTION: To present the work previously and presently being carried out based on the nationwide Childcare Database.RESEARCH TOPICS: The Childcare Database comprises individually linked Danish register-based data on childcare attendance, childcare facility characteristics, child and family characteristics, and infectious disease hospitalisations. The database includes about 1 million children aged 0-5 years and has, since the creation, been linked with separate disease registers on atopic disease, pneumococcal disease, and childhood cancers. The present paper is a review of epidemiological studies based on the Childcare Database. Studies of childhood infections confirmed that childcare attendance dramatically increases the risk, but emphasised that the increased risk is often transient and confined to subsets of children. Studies of childhood cancers showed that early childhood infections are likely to reduce the risk of childhood leukaemia and that this risk reduction applies to all children.CONCLUSION: The Childcare Database is a unique data source for studying the association between childcare attendance and health outcomes. Further linkage with Danish registers is possible on an individual level. The studies based on the Childcare Database confirm and extend previous findings of an increased risk of infection associated with childcare attendance, as well as point towards a possible protective role of early infections in childhood cancer.
KW - Child Day Care Centers
KW - Child Welfare
KW - Child, Preschool
KW - Databases, Factual
KW - Denmark
KW - Humans
KW - Hypersensitivity
KW - Infant
KW - Infection
KW - Neoplasms
KW - Registries
KW - Risk Factors
U2 - 10.1177/1403494810395826
DO - 10.1177/1403494810395826
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 21775370
VL - 39
SP - 126
EP - 130
JO - Acta socio-medica Scandinavica
JF - Acta socio-medica Scandinavica
SN - 1403-4948
IS - 7 Suppl
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ID: 120728972