Telehealth: Improving Access to and Quality of Pediatric Health Care
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: All children and adolescents deserve access to quality health care regardless of their race/ethnicity, health conditions, financial resources, or geographic location. Despite improvements over the past decades, severe disparities in the availability and access to high-quality health care for children and adolescents continue to exist throughout the United States. Economic and racial factors, geographic maldistribution of primary care pediatricians, and limited availability of pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists all contribute to inequitable access to pediatric care. Robust, comprehensive telehealth coverage is critical to improving pediatric access and quality of care and services, particularly for under-resourced populations.
Source: PEDIATRICS
Institutions: Sisters of Mercy Health System, Mercy Hospital, New York Medical College, Boston Children's Health Physicians, University of Rochester Medicine, Golisano Children's Hospital, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UC Davis Children's Hospital, University of California, Davis, University of Mississippi Medical Center, University of Montana, Emory University, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Medical University of South Carolina
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3198223216