Childcare and School Health Screenings

Dear Colleagues,

Children intends to release a Special Issue focused on childcare and health screenings in schools. 

Childcare- and school-based health screenings happen each year in communities worldwide. Screenings vary in terms of purpose, mandatory vs. optional nature, demands on the time of teachers or health professionals, and data use. 

Screening may simply involve parents completing health forms when they enroll their child in childcare or school. It can also include multiple yearly physical assessments performed by nurses, pediatricians, dentists, or audiologists at the childcare center. Beyond simply alerting the childcare provider about any special healthcare needs and clinician contact information, robust systematic health screening data are the cornerstone for essential public health services that improve population health. School-based asthma screenings motivated intervention that significantly reduced asthma hospitalizations and disparities, for example.

This Special Issue seeks ways to leverage childcare and school health screenings to protect and promote the health of children.

We welcome papers that describe screenings assessing the nutrition, growth, weight, dental, hearing, vision, asthma, immunization, allergy, or other health issues or conditions of children in a licensed childcare or day care setting. Papers may report the history, legal context, purpose, protocol, cost–benefit, uses of screening results data, policy implications, and/or public health impact of childcare health screenings.

Dr. Jodi Stookey
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Children is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.