Community-based child and family services--many questions remain.
In a description of baseline characteristics of experimental and control families that are to be part of an evidence-based intervention study, Sundelin et al. found, contrary to expectations, a negative association between high socio-economic status (SES) and child outcomes.


CONCLUSIONS
Allowing for possible study limitations, the results of Sundelin et al. further the argument that community-based services should be provided universally to all children and families, rather than attempting to target services on the basis of SES.
Oberklaid
Frank
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Centre for Community Child Health, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. frank.oberklaid@rch.org.au
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