Beyond medical care: how health systems can address children's needs through health promotion strategies.
This paper describes an innovative approach that integrates community-based health promotion and disease prevention into a well-established pediatric medical care system. System components include a population-level focus in multiple service sectors, community coalitions, knowledge dissemination, and social marketing. The combination of these components is intended to bring about widespread changes in health/social policy and professional practice, which, in turn, should improve health behavior and outcomes. Early lessons are discussed.
Chang
Debbie I
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Nemours Health and Prevention Services, Newark, Delaware, USA.
Bultman
Linda
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Drayton
Vonna L
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Knight
Erin K
EK
Rattay
Karyl T
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Barrett
Marihelen
M
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