Cluster health program for day care children

Abstract

An essential component of a day care service is a meaningful health care program to protect, maintain, and improv the health of each child enrolled. The lack of adequate programs to promote these goals provides a unique opportunity for organizers of health care to develop and evaluate innovative health services to these predominatly preschool children. A pediatric Ambulatory Service in Brooklyn has undertaken the task of developing a health program for a day care children in the community. In the first phase a pilot health program was established and evaluated at one day care center. The experience gathered from the project has led to the development of a program serving the health care needs of children and their siblings in a cluster of day care centers in the community.