Table 8.

Top 10 child health SBCE research priorities

Rank	Child health research priority
1	Improve the delivery of SBCE approaches by community health workers for increased impact and scalability
2	Understand the determinants of the adoption of beneficial family care practices and care-seeking behaviour for infectious diseases among vulnerable populations
3	Understand the determinants of the health service delivery factors (e.g. health worker behaviours, service quality, and financial and opportunity costs) that influence community demand for and satisfaction with child health services and find new approaches and improve the delivery of existing approaches to increase utilisation of these health services
4	Improve the delivery of approaches to support family, community and health system actions to foster healthy early childhood development for all children, including children with disabilities
5	Find new approaches and improve the delivery of existing approaches to address gender inequity and to foster women’s empowerment and agency to improve their health and the health of their children
6	Improve the delivery of health education and counselling interventions to increase the uptake and maintenance of beneficial family care practices for maternal, newborn and child health
7	Understand the determinants of maintaining exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months and of maintaining breastfeeding for 2 years
8	Understand the determinants of optimal early childhood nutrition and growth, with attention to the role of gender and household dynamics, and find new approaches to address these determinants
9	Find new approaches for community participation and social accountability that improve access to and quality of care for newborns and children
10	Understand the determinants of maternal depression and assess its impact on women’s and children’s health and development

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