Life Course Health Development in Pediatric Practice

The development of health is a cumulative, dynamic, and lifelong process responding to variety biological behavioral influences, which those in childhood are especially influential and, indeed, formative. Reflecting the balance positive adverse experiences during childhood, initial trajectories for future emerge. Preventive pediatric care can anticipate respond personal social circumstances they occur. These actions promote better prevent chronic illness adulthood. Building on life course framework, ways positively affect patterns individual population practice identified. Maximizing opportunity influence children’s over their lifetime will require purposeful partnerships with other entities children families interact as well improvements processes. latter includes expanding databases that drive service (such registries, plans, referrals) adopting proactive, strengths-based, patient family-centered, comprehensive, multidisciplinary models care.