PMID- 35886585 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220728 LR - 20220830 IS - 1660-4601 (Electronic) IS - 1661-7827 (Print) IS - 1660-4601 (Linking) VI - 19 IP - 14 DP - 2022 Jul 18 TI - The Preventive Child and Youth Healthcare Service in the Netherlands: The State of the Art and Challenges Ahead. LID - 10.3390/ijerph19148736 [doi] LID - 8736 AB - The Netherlands has a unique system for promoting child and youth health, known as the preventive Child and Youth Healthcare service (CYH). The CYH makes an important contribution to the development and health of children and young people by offering (anticipatory) information, immunisation, and screening, identifying care needs and providing preventive support to children and their families from birth up to the age of 18 years. The CYH is offered free of charge and offers basic preventive care to all children and special preventive care to children who grow up in disadvantaged situations, such as children growing up in poverty or in a family where one of the members has a chronic health condition. Basic care is supported by 35 evidence-based guidelines and validated screening tools. Special care is supported by effective interventions. The impact of the CYH is high. It is estimated that every EUR 1 spent on the CYH provides EUR 11 back. Although the Dutch CYH is a solid public health system with a reach of up to 95% among young children, the access to this service could be further improved by paying more attention to health literacy, making special care available to all children in need and improving transmural and integrated care coordination. In addition, the generation of nationwide data could help to demonstrate the impact of the CYH and will direct and prioritise the necessary care. By continuously developing care on the basis of new (scientific) insights and (societal) issues, the CYH will continue to offer all children in the Netherlands the best preventive healthcare. FAU - Vanneste, Yvonne T M AU - Vanneste YTM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1273-7854 AD - Dutch Knowledge Centre for Youth Health, NCJ, Churchilllaan 11, 3527 GV Utrecht, The Netherlands. FAU - Lanting, Caren I AU - Lanting CI AD - Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, Department of Child Health, TNO, Schipholweg 77, 2316 ZL Leiden, The Netherlands. FAU - Detmar, Symone B AU - Detmar SB AD - Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, Department of Child Health, TNO, Schipholweg 77, 2316 ZL Leiden, The Netherlands. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220718 PL - Switzerland TA - Int J Environ Res Public Health JT - International journal of environmental research and public health JID - 101238455 SB - IM MH - Adolescent MH - Child MH - Child, Preschool MH - Chronic Disease MH - Delivery of Health Care MH - *Family MH - *Health Services MH - Humans MH - Netherlands MH - Poverty PMC - PMC9320981 OTO - NOTNLM OT - child and youth healthcare OT - child health OT - preventive care COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2022/07/28 06:00 MHDA- 2022/07/29 06:00 PMCR- 2022/07/18 CRDT- 2022/07/27 01:20 PHST- 2022/05/01 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/07/06 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/07/14 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/07/27 01:20 [entrez] PHST- 2022/07/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/07/29 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/07/18 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - ijerph19148736 [pii] AID - ijerph-19-08736 [pii] AID - 10.3390/ijerph19148736 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jul 18;19(14):8736. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19148736.