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September 5, 2025International Journal for Population Data Science0 citationsOpen Access

Linking maternal mental health and health care utilisation to child educational outcomes: Challenges and opportunities of ECHILD

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AMAmanda J. Mason‐Jones

Key Points

  • Assessing maternal mental health and healthcare utilisation during pregnancy influences child educational outcomes.
  • Linking various health and education datasets provides a comprehensive view of healthcare impacts on children.
  • Data linkage challenges and solutions are outlined for future research using the ECHILD framework.
  • The study suggests a broader application of maternal health data to educational outcomes across England.

Abstract

ObjectivesThis study aims to create a cohort that includes maternal mental health, emergency department utilisation during pregnancy, and child health and development outcomes. However, to do this, it will be necessary to assess the usability of the ECHILD linkage 'spines' for answering such research questions. MethodsA cohort with one row per individual (mother and baby) for birth year 2012/3 will be created by linking health and educational records over a 12-year period using the ECHILD-MB and the Pupil Matching Reference. These will include the Minimum Mental Health Dataset (MMHDS), Hospital Episode Statistic for Admitted Patient Care (HES-APC), Emergency Department attendance and admission (HES-A 27:527-37.

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Amanda J. Mason‐Jones (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68bb3d622b87ece8dc9566d1https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v10i3.3043
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