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Changes in day care attendance rates and in the occurrence of adenoidectomies and tympanostomies
Author(s) -
Niemelä M,
Uhari M,
Luotonen M,
Luotonen J,
Manninen MP,
Puhakka H
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1998.tb01773.x
Subject(s) - medicine , day care center , attendance , day care , family medicine , pediatrics , otitis , demography , nursing , surgery , sociology , economics , economic growth
The care of a child in a day care center is a marked risk factor for acute otitis media. In a nationwide questionnaire survey we found that the rate of tympanostomies and adenoidectomies was 59–67% higher for the children cared for at a day care center before the age of 3 y. When the local authorities in Finland at the beginning of 1990 were obliged by law to arrange day care for all children under 3y, the number of adenoidectomies performed on children at this age increased by 30%.