Group well-child care offers unique opportunities for patient education.
By using a group process, health educators can greatly increase the cost effectiveness of well-child care. Benefits of group care, compared with traditional well-child care, include increased time for patient education, prolonged observation of parent-child interactions, the ability to observe children with their peers, and the opportunity to employ a broad variety of teaching techniques, such as role-modeling. This paper describes the author's 15 years of experience using this model, illustrating with examples the advantages of group well-child care.
D002652:Child Behavior; D002662:Child Health Services; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014589:Utah