How the network works
The city health bureau identifies child-protection and vulnerable-family cases, extremely-low-birth-weight children, overdue vaccinations, developmental delay and Indigenous-area children as priority groups. Teams conduct home visits covering health, development, daily care and family support; they may involve mental-health and other professionals and connect medical or social-welfare resources.
Health and social-service lists are compared monthly.
Medical teams and social workers contact children outside regular care.
Urgent medical need can be linked quickly to paediatric care.
Medical, psychological and welfare services are connected.
What the published results establish
They establish activity and scale: six hospitals, 209 children receiving care, and three cases completing cross-system referral. Taiwan’s national primary-physician scheme similarly frames care as continuous, proactive case management linking prevention, home visits, screening follow-up and referral.
What should be tracked next
De-identified reporting should cover time from list matching to first contact, successful and unsuccessful visit rates, completed referrals, green-channel care outcomes, continuation of family support, and—over an appropriate follow-up period—repeat reports, new injuries or loss of contact. Transparency must never compromise a child’s privacy or safety.
Our conclusion: this is suitable for independent tracking as a child-abuse-prevention policy development. The support network has expanded and is operating; service volume should not be presented as successful prevention.