BACKGROUND Preventive care in the United States has been a priority, especially for children under 18 years of age. The objective of this analysis was to determine which predisposing, enabling, and need factors affect access to preventive health care for children. METHODS Data were obtained from the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH), a cross-sectional study of children in the United...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact on health care utilization and expenditure trends over time of a personalized preventive medicine program delivering individualized care focused on lifestyle behavior modification, disease prevention, and compliance with quality-related metrics. MD-Value in Prevention (MDVIP) is a network of affiliated primary care physicians who utilize a ...

The 2021 Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care (Periodicity Schedule) has been approved by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and represents a consensus AAP Bright Futures Periodicity Schedule Workgroup. Each child family is unique; therefore, these recommendations are designed care children who receiving competent parenting, have no manifestations any important health prob...

BACKGROUND Guidelines recommend preventive medications for all children with persistent asthma, yet young urban children often receive inadequate therapy. This may occur in part because primary care providers are unaware of the severity of their patients' symptoms. OBJECTIVE To determine whether systematic school-based asthma screening, coupled with primary care provider notification of asthm...

OBJECTIVE To assess the extent to which advances in preventive care delivery, achieved in primary care practices through outreach facilitation, could be sustained over time after purposefully redirecting the focus of practice physicians and staff away from prevention and toward a new content area in need of improvement-chronic illness management. DESIGN Before-and-after study. SETTING Prima...

The nation’s leading sources of morbidity and health disparities (eg, preterm birth, obesity, chronic lung disease, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, mental health disorders, and cancer) require an evidence-based approach to the delivery of effective preventive care across the life course (eg, prenatal care, primary preventive care, immunizations, physical activity, nutrition, smoking ce...

This study examines nonelderly women's concurrent use of two types of physicians (generalists and obstetrician-gynecologists) for regular health care and associations with receipt of preventive care, including a range of recommended screening, counseling, and heart disease prevention services. Data are from the 1999 Women's Health Care Experiences Survey conducted in Baltimore, Maryland, using ...