Interrelatedness of child health, protection and well-being: An application of the SAFE model in Rwanda

► Core domains of child security, protection, and well-being are interrelated. ► In Rwanda, community cohesion, poverty, and caregiver loss have cross-cutting effects on other domains of well-being. ► Threats to security force children and families to adopt unsafe survival strategies that increase risk. ► The SAFE model of child protection is useful for analyzing the interrelatedness of security threats and survival strategies.