The article “Evidence-Based Community Pediatrics: Building a Bridge From Bedside to Neighborhood”1 explains the importance of using scientific evidence as the foundation of community pediatrics interventions. This commitment to evidence-based community-level health activities by pediatricians is a natural next step in the evolution of pediatrics as we return full circle to the origins of the sp...

BACKGROUND Children in child care are frequently unnecessarily excluded for illness. We investigated parental use of urgent medical evaluation for sick children unable to attend child care. METHODS In May 2012, authors conducted a nationally representative survey of parents, who completed online questions regarding child illness causing absence from child care and their medical care-seeking b...

Assessing child health is critical to a variety of child health, educational, and social programs, as well as to clinical research and practice. However, despite the apparent wealth of measures available in health, education, and legal and social welfare systems, little agreement exists as to what are the most important measures and for what domains of health. Development of improved measures m...

OBJECTIVE Understanding the experiences of health professionals in primary care with the Child Health Booklet in child health care. METHOD A qualitative study with a phenomenological approach, in which participated nurses and doctors from six teams of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in Belo Horizonte, MG. In total, were carried out 12 non-directive interviews, using two guiding questions. ...

In this chapter, we present results of the child care quality assessments conducted in the Community Child Care Research Project. The sample consisted of the 307 child care settings attended by the children in the study. Data collection took place during 2002 and 2003. Sixty-three percent (n=193) of children were place in child care centers (licensed child care center, child care ministry, and ...

BACKGROUND The increasing scope of health supervision recommendations challenges well-child care delivery in the United States. Comparison of the United States with other countries' delivery systems may highlight different assumptions as well as structural approaches for consideration. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to describe the process of well-child care delivery in industrialized nations and com...

OBJECTIVE The multi-country evaluation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) effectiveness, cost and impact (MCE) is a global evaluation to determine the impact of IMCI on health outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. MCE studies are under way in Bangladesh, Brazil, Peru, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania. The objective of this analysis from the Bangladesh MCE study was to...