title: Beyond medical care: how health systems can address children's needs through health promotion strategies.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Nemours Health and Prevention Services, Newark, Delaware, USA.
authors.forename: Debbie I
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bultman
authors.forename: Vonna L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Drayton
authors.forename: Erin K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Knight
authors.forename: Karyl T
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Rattay
authors.forename: Marihelen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barrett
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006293:Health Promotion; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011322:Primary Prevention; D040241:Social Marketing; D014481:United States