Comprehensive health care of children
| Autor: | V Eisner, C Fraser, R L Thiele, Helen M. Wallace, S W Dooley |
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| Rok vydání: | 1968 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Child Health Services Health administration Nursing Pregnancy Health care United States Office of Economic Opportunity medicine Humans Community Health Services Health Workforce Child Health policy Patient Care Team HRHIS Medical Assistance business.industry Research Infant Care Public health Infant Newborn Infant General Medicine United States Health Planning Health promotion Health Occupations Child Preschool Social Security Act Female Comprehensive Health Care business Public Health Administration Research Article |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health. 58:1839-1847 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9572 |
| DOI: | 10.2105/ajph.58.10.1839 |
| Popis: | COMPREHENSIVE health care of children is a coordinated system of delivery of health and related care which provides children and their families with optimal health care on a continuing basis throughout the entire period of growth and development. It goes beyond "care" in the traditional sense of purely medical care. Recent federal legislation has made it possible to provide this type of care to some children and youth and their families. Because of the potentialities embodied in Maternity and Infant Care Projects, Children and Youth Projects, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title 19 of the Social Security Act, and the Economic Opportunity Act, we now have the opportunity to develop new methods of delivery of a spectrum of health and related services to children and their families. Starting with the programs which are currently under way, it is probable that new and more effective programs to provide health and medical care of children and youth will be developed. We are in a new era in the field of delivery and distribution of health care for children and their families, comparable to the period of expansion of services stimulated by the enactment of the original Social Security Act in 1935. This paper attempts to define the objectives of a program for comprehensive care of children and youth, and is offered in the hope that it may be helpful as a blueprint for planning services in communities, as well as being useful to training programs preparing professional and subprofessional public health and clinical personnel. Our definition of comprehensive care suggests that it must meet four criteria. It must be: optimal care, coordinated care, accessible care, and continuous care. We shall discuss each of these criteria in turn, and then describe organizational structures which are necessary to achieve them. |
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