Beyond the clinic: improving child health through evidence-based community development.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Promoting child wellbeing necessarily goes beyond the clinic as risks to child health and development are embedded in the social and physical environmental conditions in which children live. Pediatricians play a vital role in promoting the health of children in the communities they serve and can maximize their impact by advocating for and supporting efficacious, evidence-based strategies in their communities.

Methods

To provide a succinct guide for community pediatric efforts to advance the wellbeing of all children and particularly disadvantaged children in a community, we conducted a theory-driven and structured narrative review to synthesize published systematic and meta-analytic reviews of policy-relevant, local-level strategies addressing potent and malleable

SUBMITTER: Komro KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4016148 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature