This section presents recent key publications relating to health visiting and the improvement of outcomes for babies, children, families and communities. These resources provide evidence-based guidance and up-to-date insights to strengthen the delivery of high-quality care across the health visiting profession.
- Strengthening family support by integrating mental health practitioners into Jersey and Guernsey MECSH health visiting teams – click here to view
- The Infant to School programme: supporting school readiness in children and developing community nursery nurses within health visiting teams – click here to view
- Parenting capacity and resources while living in temporary accommodation in England during the COVID-19 pandemic: a CHAMPIONS project qualitative investigation of raising children under 5 in resource-limited settings – click here to view
- Inequalities in neonatal unit mortality in England and Wales between 2012 and 2022: a retrospective cohort study – click here to view
- “I ask them what autism means for them”: a qualitative study of staff experiences of working with autistic women and birthing people in community perinatal mental health teams – click here to view
- COVID-19 public health and social measures (PHSM) and early childhood developmental concerns in Scotland: an interrupted time series analysis – click here to view
- ‘Why Would You Want to Do That?’ A Tribute to the ‘Exquisite Obsession’ and Legacy of Professor Dame June Clark, Health Visitor, 1931–2025 – click here to view
- Clinical effectiveness, implementation effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a community singing intervention for postnatal depressive symptoms, SHAPER-PND: randomised controlled trial – click here to view
- Parental tolerance of risk and associations to adventurous play in British preschool-aged children – click here to view
- Child Body Mass Index and Health Care Costs in England – click here to view
- New Research Suggests that Parents’ Mental Health is in Crisis During the First 1001 Days of Parenthood – click here to view
- The LMSz method – an automatable scalable approach to constructing gene-specific growth charts in rare disorders – click here to view
- Troubling rise in emergency department attendance of babies and young children in England: Time to focus on prevention and support – click here to view
- Healthcare use and costs of perinatal anxiety: a UK NHS perspective – click here to view
- Poor child oral health and school absences: a population-wide data linkage study – click here to view
- Eating habits of children aged 16 to 18 months – click here to view
- ‘Why did nobody ask us?’: A mixed-methods co-produced study in the United Kingdom exploring why some children are unvaccinated or vaccinated late – click here to view
- Maternal and child nutrition: nutrition and weight management in pregnancy, and nutrition in children up to 5 years—summary of new NICE guidance – click here to view
- Association between maternal body mass index and hospital admissions for infection in offspring: longitudinal cohort study – click here to view
- The iHV Champions training programme and its Theory of Change – click here to view
- Playing with Children’s Health? A scoping review of recent literature on play and children’s health – click here to view
- Feasibility and acceptability of the Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB) in universal health visiting practice in England: a mixed-methods study using Normalisation Process Theory – click here to view
- COVID-19 and anxiety in pregnancy and postpartum: a longitudinal survey – click here to view
- Early child development in England: Cross-sectional analysis of ASQ®-3 records from the 2-2½-year universal health visiting review using national administrative data (Community Service Dataset, CSDS) – click here to view
- Oxytocin system of breastfeeding affected in mothers with postnatal depression – click here to view
- Restorative clinical supervision via professional nurse advocates – click here to view
- A consensus statement on child and family health during the COVID-19 pandemic and recommendations for post-pandemic recovery and re-build – click here to view
- Interventions that prevent or reduce perinatal loneliness and its proximal determinants: a restricted scoping review – click here to view
- The Impact of Legal Policies and Workplace Culture on Breastfeeding in the UK Health Sector – click here to view
- Adverse childhood experiences in firstborns and mental health risk and health-care use in siblings: a population-based birth cohort study of half a million children in England – click here to view
- Child mortality in England after national lockdowns for COVID-19: An analysis of childhood deaths, 2019–2023 – click to view
- Baldwin S, Malone M, Sandall J, Bick D. (2022) A process evaluation of Promotional Guides used by health visitors to support men’s transition to fatherhood: a qualitative study. Perspectives in Public Health. 2022 Sep 8:17579139221118243. doi: 10.1177/17579139221118243. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36073355. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36073355/
- Baldwin S, Bick D, Spiro A. (2021) Translating fathers’ support for breastfeeding into practice. Prim Health Care Res Dev. 2021 Nov 3;22:e60. doi: 10.1017/S1463423621000682. PMID: 34728005; PMCID: PMC8569909. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34728005/
- Baldwin S., Malone, M., Murrells, T. et al. (2021) A mixed-methods feasibility study of an intervention to improve men’s mental health and wellbeing during their transition to fatherhood. BMC Public Health 21, 1813. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11870-x
- Baldwin S, Bick D. (2021) Using framework analysis in health visiting research: Exploring first-time fathers’ mental health and wellbeing. Journal of Health Visiting, 9 (5): 206-213. https://doi.org/10.12968/johv.2021.9.5.206
