Nicole L. A. Catherine, Rosemary Lever, Debbie Sheehan, Yufei Zheng, Michael H. Boyle,
Lawrence McCandless, Amiram Gafni, Andrea Gonzalez, Susan M. Jack, Lil Tonmyr, Colleen Varcoe, Harriet L. MacMillan, Charlotte Waddell and For the British Columbia Healthy Connections Project Scientific Team. (2019, August). The British Columbia Healthy Connections Project: findings on socioeconomic disadvantage in early pregnancy. BMC Public Health.
Category Archives: Publications
Six decades of preventing and treating childhood anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis to inform policy and practice
Christine Schwartz, Jenny Lou Barican, Donna Yung, Yufei Zheng, Charlotte Waddell (2019, July). Six decades of preventing and treating childhood anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis to inform policy and practice. Evidence-Based Mental Health. Continue reading
Preparing to Parent in British Columbia: A Profile of Participants in the BC Healthy Connections Project
Charlotte Waddell, Nicole Catherine, Harriet MacMillan, Rosemary Lever, Patricia Wallis, Debbie Sheehan, Michael Boyle, Amiram Gafni, Lawrence McCandless, Lil Tonmyr, Andrea Gonzalez, Susan Jack, Ron Barr, Colleen Varcoe and Lenora Marcellus for the BC Healthy Connections Project Scientific Team. Preparing to Parent in British Columbia: A Profile of Participants in the BC Healthy Connections Project. Vancouver, BC: Children’s Health Policy Centre, Simon Fraser University, 2018.
Fifty years of preventing and treating childhood behaviour disorders: a systematic review to inform policy and practice
Charlotte Waddell, Christine Schwartz, Caitlyn Andres, Jenny Lou Barican, Donna Yung (2018, May). Fifty years of preventing and treating childhood behaviour disorders: a systematic review to inform policy and practice. Evidence-Based Mental Health. Continue reading
Making Children’s Mental Health a Public Policy Priority: For the One and the Many
Charlotte Waddell, Christine Schwartz, Caitlyn Andres (2017, October). Making Children’s Mental Health a Public Policy Priority: For the One and the Many. Public Health Ethics.
Improving children’s health and development in British Columbia through nurse home visiting
Nicole L. A. Catherine, Andrea Gonzalez, Michael Boyle, Debbie Sheehan, Susan M. Jack, Kaitlyn A. Hougham, Lawrence McCandless, Harriet L. MacMillan and Charlotte Waddell (2016, August). Improving children’s health and development in British Columbia through nurse home visiting: a randomized controlled trial protocol
BC Healthy Connections Project: Scientific Overview
This report was prepared in May 2016 as part of a contract with the BC Ministries of Health with support from the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development and five BC Health Authorities (Fraser Health, Interior Health, Island Health, Northern Health and Vancouver Coastal Health).
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A Qualitative Study of Autism Policy in Canada: Seeking Consensus on Children’s Services
Cody Shepherd, Charlotte Waddell. (2015, June). A Qualitative Study of Autism Policy in Canada: Seeking Consensus on Children’s Services. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Improving Children’s Mental Health: Six highly effective psychosocial interventions
This research report was prepared in May 2015 at the request of the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development. It aims to inform policymaking by providing a review of highly effective Children’s mental health psychosocial prevention and treatment interventions — based on randomized-controlled trial evidence of benefits in young people as well as policy feasibility. Continue reading
Child and Youth Mental Disorders: Prevalence and Evidence-Based Interventions
Child and Youth Mental Disorders: Prevalence and Evidence-Based Interventions is a report that was prepared for the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development. It provides the latest research evidence on the prevalence of mental disorders in children and youth along with estimates of the number affected in BC and Canada. It also presents the latest research evidence on effective prevention and treatment interventions and makes recommendations for new public investments needed to improve child and youth mental health.
Charlotte Waddell, the lead author of the report and the Director of the Children’s Health Policy Centre, presented this evidence to BC’s Legislative Select Standing Committee on Children and Youth on June 11, 2014.