Transforming the Child Health Care System
Center for Health Care Strategies
Better care where it's needed most
“Consider that for the first time in recorded history, we have a generation of children on track to have poorer health outcomes, life chances, and life expectancy than the generations that came before them. We must do something differently.”
– Renée D. Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a consensus study on strategies for improving the health and well-being of children, adolescents, and families. This recent release reflects the growing momentum nationally to prioritize child and adolescent health. For the past four years, the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS), with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has explored key strategies to reimagine child health care systems in a way that holistically addresses the physical, behavioral, and health-related social needs of children and their families. Through this work, CHCS has partnered with child health stakeholders nationwide to help push child health transformation forward.
This blog post shares insights from two advisors to CHCS’ Accelerating Child Health Transformation initiative, Renée D. Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, and Benjamin Danielson, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, on why child health transformation is needed now more than ever, and what a reimagined system might look like.