The Maternal and Child Health Network warmly invites you to join our lunchtime webinar series, which will showcase existing evaluations of policy in the early years. This will include work in progress as well as completed projects from across the 4 UK nations. Presentations will focus on evaluations of policies using routine and administrative data or secondary analysis of existing data.

Each Zoom webinar will feature a 12-minute presentation followed by 10-15 minutes for questions and discussion.

This webinar will take place at 12.30pm on Thursday 16th June, with Ronan McCabe, who is coming to the end of his PhD at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit.

Scotland’s Baby Box Scheme was introduced by the Scottish Government in 2017 and made available to all parents in Scotland. As a universal, unconditional, and non-commercial policy it has implications for maternal and infant health.

It is a good example of where linked administrative data can be used to evaluate the health impact of a policy. Scotland’s Baby Box Scheme may have had a beneficial impact on infant and maternal tobacco smoke exposure and breastfeeding in young mothers. However, the policy does not appear to have had any impact on infant sleeping position.

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Using linked administrative data to evaluate Scotland’s Baby Box Scheme