The impact of childhood conditions and concurrent morbidities on child health and well-being

Abstract

Background: Understanding the impact of illnesses and morbidities experienced by children and adolescents is essential to clinical and population health programme decision making and intervention research. This study sought to: (1) examine the population prevalence of physical and mental health conditions for children and quantify their impact on multiple dimensions of children's health and well-being; and (2) examine the cumulative effect of concurrent conditions. Methods: We conducted across-sectional school-based epidemiological study of 5414 children and adolescents aged 5-18years, and examined parental reports of child health and well-being using the parent-report Child Health Questionn..