The Salut Child-Health Intervention Programme
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description: In 2005, the health authorities of Region Västerbotten initiated the Salut Programme. The initiative got its name from the word “salutogenic” as the basic idea is to promote processes that give children and their parents an opportunity to increase control over their health and ability to improve it. Since 2009/2010 it is a countywide ongoing universal health promotion intervention in a variety of sectors for parents and children 0-18 years, starting already during pregnancy. The Programme has been implemented since 2006 onwards, prompted by alarming reports of child overweight/obesity and trends of increased dental caries, already during preschool age. The programme has been developed and implemented in close collaboration with antenatal care, child health care, dental services, open preschools and schools. The Programme aims to support and strengthen initiated and ongoing health promotion interventions, and universal preventive interventions to improve health and lifestyle among expectant parents and children. The main focus areas are: to promote healthy eating habits, physical activity and good psychosocial health, and to prevent obesity and caries. In other words, the Programme combines both health promotion and universal prevention interventions in order to improve health and well-being, as well as to avoid ill health and disease for the whole population. To achieve the aforementioned aims, the Salut Programme includes a package of interventions using a family-centred approach. The interventions are integrated within ordinary public services. Programme development, implementation and dissemination have been carried out stepwise, with respect to geography, which facilitates evaluation efforts. The Programme has stepwise become a quite unique infrastructure to research on children, their parents and their living conditions. The Programme is followed and evaluated using registers, surveys, interviews, observations and records, and has generated 3 doctoral thesis an…
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  name: Kristina Edvardsson, Anneli Ivarsson, Eva Eurenius, Rickard Garvare, Monica E Nyström, Rhonda Small and Ingrid Mogren. Giving offspring a healthy start: parents’ experiences of health promotion and lifestyle change during pregnancy and early parenthood. BMC Public Health 2011;11:936
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  name: Eurenius E, Richter Sundberg L, Vaezghasemi M, Silfverdal SA, Ivarsson A, Lindkvist M. Social-emotional problems among three-year-olds differ based on the child’s gender and custody arrangement. Acta Pediatrica 2018;108:1087-95.
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  name: Kristina Edvardsson, Marie Lindkvist, Eva Eurenius, Ingrid Mogren, Rhonda Small, Anneli Ivarsson. A poulation-based study of overweight and obesity in expectant parents: socio-demographic patterns and within-couple associations. BMC Public Health 2013:13(1):923.
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  name: Kristina Edvardsson, Anneli Ivarsson, Rickard Garvare, Eva Eurenius, Marie Lindkvist, Ingrid Mogren, Rhonda Small, Monica E Nyström. Improving child health promotion practices in multiple sectors - outcomes of the Swedish Salut Programme. BMC Public Health 2012, 12:920.
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  name: Pulkki Brännström AM, Lindkvist M, Eurenius E, Häggström J, Ivarsson A, Sampaio F, Feldman I. The equity impact of a universal child health promotion programme. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2020;0:1-7.
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  name: Häggström J, Sampaio F, Eurenius E, Pulkki Brännström AM, Ivarsson A, Lindkvist M, Feldman I. Is the Salut Programme an effective and cost-effective universal health promotion intervention for parents and their children? A register-based retrospective observational study. BMJ Open 2017;7:e016732.
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  name: Masoud Vaezghasemi, Marie Lindkvist, Anneli Ivarsson, Eva Eurenius. Overweight and lifestyle among 13 to 15 year olds: A cross-sectional study in northern Sweden. Scand J Public Health 2012;40:221–228.
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  name: Lindqvist M, Lindkvist M, Eurenius E, Persson M, Ivarsson A, Mogren I. Leisure time physical activity among pregnant women and its associations with maternal characteristics and pregnancy outcomes. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare 2016;9:14-20. Doi: 10.1016/j.srhc.2016.03.006.
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  name: Vaezghasemi M, Eurenius E, Ivarsson A, Richter Sundberg L, Silfverdal SA, Lindkvist M. Social-emotional problems among Swedish three-year-olds: an Item Response Theory analysis of the Ages and Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional BMC Pediatrics 2020;20:149.
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  name: Kristina Edvardsson, Rickard Garvare, Eva Eurenius, Anneli Ivarsson, Ingrid Mogren och Monica Nyström. Sustainable practice change: Professionals’ experiences with a multisectoral child health promotion programme in Sweden. BMC Health Services Research 2011;11:61.
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  name: Feldman I, Eurenius E, Häggström J, Lindkvist M, Pulkki Brännström AM, Sampaio F, Ivarsson A. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Salut Programme: a universal health promotion intervention for parents and children - protocol of a register-based retrospective observational study. BMJ Open 2016;6:e011202.
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  name: Wilson I, Eurenius E, Lindkvist M, Edin K, Edvardsson K. Is there an association between pregnant women's experience of violence and their partner's drinking? A Swedish population-based study. Midwifery 2018;69:84-91.
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  name: Eva Eurenius, Marie Lindkvist, Magdalena Sundkvist, Anneli Ivarsson, Ingrid Mogren. Maternal and paternal self-rated health and BMI in relation to lifestyle in early pregnancy - the Salut Programme in Sweden. Scand J Public Health 2011;39:730-41.
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  affiliation: Umeå University
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creator: Marie Lindkvist
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  affiliation: Umeå University
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  given name: Marie
date modified: 2025-07-01
date published: 2013-12-17
funding: Grant
  funder: Umeå University
funding: Grant
  funder: Swedish Research Council for Heath, Workning Life and Walfare
funding: Grant
  funder: Region Västerbotten
funding: Grant
  funder: Public Health Agency of Sweden
language: Swedish
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keywords: Life Style
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keywords: Diet
keywords: Alcohol Drinking
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keywords: Health
keywords: Oral Health
keywords: Education
keywords: Occupations
keywords: Feeding Behavior
keywords: Delivery, Obstetric
keywords: Diet, Healthy
keywords: Healthy Lifestyle
keywords: social living conditions
keywords: lifestyle factors
publisher: Umeå University
spatial coverage: Västerbotten County
temporal coverage: 2010
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Umeå University
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department: Department of Epidemiology and Global Health

Swedish
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General health and well-being
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Public health
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description: Prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level. For instance, health promotion, disease prevention, impact of public health programmes, managing local, national or global health issues, epidemiology of a disease, condition, or pathogen, or disease outbreak.
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DENTAL HEALTH
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EDUCATION
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Life Style
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description: Typical way of life or manner of living characteristic of an individual or group. (From APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed)
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Exercise
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description: Physical activity which is usually regular and done with the intention of improving or maintaining PHYSICAL FITNESS or HEALTH. Contrast with PHYSICAL EXERTION which is concerned largely with the physiologic and metabolic response to energy expenditure.
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Diet
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description: Regular course of eating and drinking adopted by a person or animal.
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Alcohol Drinking
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description: Behaviors associated with the ingesting of ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, including social drinking.
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Pregnancy
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Health
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description: The state of the organism when it functions optimally without evidence of disease.
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Oral Health
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Education
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Occupations
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DENTAL CARE
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MIDWIVES
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SOCIAL NETWORKS
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Feeding Behavior
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Delivery, Obstetric
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Diet, Healthy
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Healthy Lifestyle
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CHILD HEALTH
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Västerbotten County
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