April 17, 2012
“Canada’s children and youth are inheriting many of the challenges that face our world, and it is our collective responsibility to prepare them for a complex future. As families, communities and decision-makers there is much we can do to ease their way. This report highlights what governments need to do to support the health, safety and well-being of children and youth, to better protect them today and to prepare for tomorrow.
Legislative and regulatory actions can strengthen parents and families in their efforts to raise healthy, safe and competent children. There are many examples of how legislation and public policy have improved conditions for children and youth, such as seat belt and helmet laws. This report reviews current policy on several fronts, suggests improvements and brings critical issues to the forefront of the public policy agenda.
In this fourth edition of Are We Doing Enough?, the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) continues to assess key indicators of child and youth health at the provincial/territorial and federal levels. In addition to rating progress on these indicators, we outline specific actions to improve the legislative and public policy environments. These actions are based on clear need and on evidence that government intervention is effective. We hope this approach will provide direction to help policy-makers act in the best interests of children and youth.”
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January 16, 2012
Evidence-based practices for improving child health care often are not implemented on a large scale. While research continues to advance ways to reduce variability in service delivery and disparities in health outcomes, the promise of these findings has yet to be realized. Dissemination, diffusion, and implementation (DD&I) science offers a model to identify innovations and understand the preferences, capabilities, and social networks likely to help facilitate adoption. This Commonwealth Fund–supported study outlines how the DD&I model can be used to enhance widespread adoption of innovative care practices that can improve the overall health of children. The authors detail the DD&I process from the initial exploration for practice change to planning, pilot implementation, and organization-wide implementation. The success and sustainability of each model requires constant surveillance and assessment to enable continuous improvement, the authors write.
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October 27, 2011
“Moving from pediatric to adult healthcare is a time of stress and opportunity for adolescents with special healthcare needs (ASHCN) and their families. With over 90% of children with special healthcare needs surviving into young adulthood, there is an increasing imperative to actively engage youth in preparing for the adult system (Betz and Smith 2011; Pai and Schwartz 2011). The goal of transition care is to provide young people with a coordinated, uninterrupted and developmentally appropriate transfer to adult healthcare (Kaufman and Pinzon 2007). This is often complicated by the complex medical, social and psychological tasks and requirements that adolescents experience as they navigate their healthcare and their lives as young, developing people.”
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October 13, 2010
This publication presents experiences of how health systems in Member States of the WHO European Region respond to the challenge of meeting the health and developmental needs of young people. The main aim is to facilitate experience-sharing and stimulate actions in countries.
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