Healthy steps at 15: the past and future of an innovative preventive care model for young children
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Contributor(s):
- Barth, Michael C. Commonwealth Fund.
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, [2010]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Child Health Services -- organization & administration Patient-Centered Care Preventive Health Services -- organization & administration Child Development Child Health Services -- economics Child Health Services -- trends Child, Preschool Forecasting Health Care Reform Infant Infant, Newborn Models, Theoretical Outcome Assessment (Health Care) Primary Health Care Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- In 1995, The Commonwealth Fund launched a program called Healthy Steps for Young Children, a model of preventive pediatric care for infants and toddlers up to age 3. The model relies on Healthy Steps Specialists, midlevel professionals with expertise in child development. In 1996, the Fund launched an evaluation of Healthy Steps implementation in 15 pediatric practice sites that had a specialist and staff trained in the model; the results showed excellent clinical outcomes for children in the program. Following the evaluation, many pediatric care facilities began offering Healthy Steps, with a peak of over 60 active sites in 2006, and 50 sites currently. While the specialist's salary has been the primary obstacle in maintaining Healthy Steps, the program can serve as a model of the patient-centered care that recent health care reform was intended to encourage.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101561265 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101561265