Foreword

For over ten years, the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) has been providing accurate and timely information to health care decision-makers, analysts and providers, so that policies, programs and services intended to improve the health of Manitobans can be efficaciously designed and implemented. MCHP delivers leading-edge research in the areas of health service utilization, health and illness patterns in the population, and the factors that affect health, all of which are critical to informing the health policy process.

Over the past several years, there has been a growing interest in child health and wellbeing as health policy-makers and researchers have turned their …