News item | 13-09-2023 | 11:37
Youth health care can perform important basic tasks, but it cannot do everything. The regional organizations are highly dependent on the money that municipalities allocate for them. This varies considerably per region. Sometimes tasks are left behind. This applies, for example, to maternity care, care for asylum children and when identifying domestic violence to which children are victims. Youth health care can also improve its own regional organizations.
This is evident from an inventory by the Healthcare and Youth Inspectorate (IGJ) of the regional organizations in youth health care. These are the GGDs, the Centers for Youth and Family and other healthcare providers.
Prevention
Youth health care concerns all children from 0 to 18 years old: from unborn babies to teenagers. That is why good youth health care is invaluable: the organizations are the only ones that regularly see and speak to all children and young people and their parents. They provide advice, information and support and, together with parents and young people, look at what is needed to grow up healthily and safely. Youth health care not only looks at a child or young person, but more broadly: at the family, social network, shelter, informal network, school, health care, youth care and support.
Youth health care also provides vaccinations for children against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, mumps, measles, rubella and HPV. Furthermore, youth health care also promotes a healthy lifestyle as standard in families and at schools: against smoking, alcohol consumption and obesity. But in families, often only if there is reason to do so given their lifestyle.
Also improve the organization yourself
Lack of money is not the only reason why tasks are left behind. The various organizations in youth health care can still make some improvements themselves. A selection of the advice from the inspection:
Collaborate even more with other organizations such as municipalities, health insurers, general practitioners, schools and youth care. Collaborate nationally in the field of ICT. This means that digital files can be transferred more easily and securely (for example after moving) and can be viewed by different organizations, while maintaining the necessary privacy. Be nationally visible collectively and show courage. Strengthen the participation of children, young people and parents. Because youth health care can learn from what they think.
2023-09-13 09:48:00
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