Population Perspectives on Nurturing Relational Health from Early Life: A Systematic Review Series.

The idea for the series emerged from a Roundtable on ‘Early Relational Health’ hosted by the Paul Ramsay Foundation, Australia, in 2022. The outcome was a joint commitment to describe ‘what we know’ and ‘what we don’t know’ about when, how and through what means we can best design public policy to nurture relational health from early life. We did not intend to review the clinical literature around repairing ruptured relationships. Our focus was on population approaches to nurturing relational health from early life, with a particular focus on universal approaches that could be applied to the whole population proportionate to need (proportionate universalism). The aim of such an approach is to shift the population mean towards healthier relational states, and in doing, improve overall population relational health, reducing demand clinical intervention.