Quality of preventive health care for young children: strategies for improvement
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Halfon, Neal, author Inkelas, Moiram, author Abrams, Melinda, author Stevens, Gregory, author
- Contributor(s):
- Commonwealth Fund, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, May 2005
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Child Health Services -- statistics & numerical data Health Services Accessibility -- statistics & numerical data Preventive Health Services -- statistics & numerical data Quality of Health Care Child Child Development Child, Preschool Community-Institutional Relations Health Care Surveys Health Education Insurance, Health, Reimbursement Parents United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Policymakers increasingly understand the importance of children's early years for promoting health, learning, and school readiness and for identifying and mediating risk that can compromise later functioning. Yet not all parents receive the services needed to identify developmental and behavioral issues in early childhood. In the National Survey of Early Childhood Health, conducted in 2000, only 57 percent of parents reported their child's development ever being assessed within a pediatric visit. While most parents receive counseling on traditional topics like immunization and nutrition, up to one-third report they did not receive counseling on important developmental and behavioral topics like discipline and toilet training. In a separate survey, pediatricians cited time constraints and inadequate reimbursement as barriers to providing optimal developmental services. To improve the quality of early childhood health care, the authors recommend national standards, enhanced reimbursement, improved provider training, and a strategy of raising parents' expectations of pediatric care.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (vi, 21 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101255019 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101255019