A Framework for Pursuing Child Health Equity in Pediatric Practice

This article brings together several disparate frameworks to help outline a needed shift in pediatric practice to ensure child health equity. That shift involves moving from a commitment to equal care delivery to an explicit commitment to equitable health outcomes. The frameworks describe (1) the distinct domains of child health where inequity can be expressed, (2) the shortfalls of equal care delivery in meeting that promise, (3) a coherent typology of the barriers that drive health inequity and (4) a characterization of interventions as downstream, midstream, and upstream in nature.

Source: Pediatric Clinics of North America - May 25, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Robert S. Kahn, Tina L. Cheng, Monica J. Mitchell Source Type: research