Advocacy
Children with Chronic Conditions
Community Pediatrics
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health
Health Services Research
Leadership and Business Training
Public Health
School and Community Health
Trainee
Tina Cheng, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)
Chair of Pediatrics, CMO, Director of the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
The United States faces a crisis of worsening trends in the health and wellbeing of children, adolescents, and young adults, coupled with more chronic disease and disability among working age groups, partly representing childhood problems persisting into adulthood. A key report from the National Academies documents increases in the incidence of chronic diseases, mental and behavioral health concerns, and significant disparities among population subgroups and calls for transforming care to launch lifelong health for America's children.
Even with expanded insurance coverage, many children lack access to adequate care. Health care payment models, usually relying on fee-for-service or value-based arrangements focused on lowering costs for high-cost adult patients, do not provide child health clinicians the flexibility or incentives to work with families and partner with communities to address their needs. The report focused on the health care sector, defined broadly to include clinical and community care, along with public health investments in child and family health and school-based efforts. The work builds on an ever-expanding body of research on the importance of early life experiences, relationship-based care, genetics, and developmental origins of health and disease. This session will cover key areas: the changing structure of pediatric care (increasing community base and team care), ways to increase national focus on improving health and health care, improving health care financing and payment, building consumer voice, and improving public health and schools’ efforts in health care and promotion.
This session is co-sponsored by the Pediatric Policy Council (APA, APS, AMSPDC, SPR with AAP convening).
Speaker: Tina L. Cheng, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Speaker: James M. Perrin, MD (he/him/his) – MassGeneral Hospital for Children; Harvard Med School
Speaker: Jennifer Walton, MD, MPH, FAAP (she/her/hers) – University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Speaker: James M. Perrin, MD (he/him/his) – MassGeneral Hospital for Children; Harvard Med School
Speaker: Andrew D. Racine, MD PhD – Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Health System
