(originally published on
www.hospitalimpact.org)
In a previous
blog post I stressed that we must refocus the principles of patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) to ensure compassionate care is elevated in the hierarchy of priorities if we are to truly position children to achieve their optimal health.
Since then, two additional barriers to children's health have become all too familiar--bullying and adolescent substance abuse (and the link between the two).
For example, in the online December issue of Pediatrics, researchers from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University found that 64 percent of those surveyed report getting bullied at school (with the risk of bullying increasing relative to the child's body weight).
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