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- Title
Optimizing the Health and Development of Children.
- Authors
Halfon, Neal; Inkelas, Moira
- Abstract
Presents a view on an approach to early childhood health monitoring which includes the collaborative services of a trained developmental specialist on the health care team. Healthy Steps for Young Children program in which a specialist works with parents to enhance their knowledge, skills and parenting behaviors; Evaluation and acknowledgement that long-term benefits may be impossible to assess; Possible impact on health to old age.
- Subjects
CHILDREN'S health; PARENTS; CHILD rearing; PARENTING; HEALTH care teams
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2003, Vol 290, Issue 23, p3136
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1001/jama.290.23.3136