title: Does well-child care have a future in pediatrics?
abstract: The most common adult chronic diseases affect 1 in 3 adults and account for more than three-quarters of US health care spending. The major childhood drivers of adult disease are distinctly nonmedical: poverty, poor educational outcomes, unhealthy social and physical environments, and unhealthy lifestyle choices. Ideally, well-child care (WCC) would address these drivers and help create healthier adults with more productive lives and lower health care costs. For children without serious acute and chronic medical problems, however, traditional pediatric preventive services may be largely ineffective in addressing the outcomes that really matter; that is, improving lifelong health and reducing the burden of adult chronic disease. In this article, we examine what role WCC has in addressing the major childhood drivers of adult disease and consider various models for the future of WCC within pediatrics.
authors.affiliation: UCLA/RAND Prevention Research Center, 10960 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1550, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA. tcoker@mednet.ucla.edu
authors.forename: Tumaini R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Coker
authors.forename: Tainayah
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: Paul J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Chung
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002669:Child Welfare; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000517:prevention & control; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States
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