Lines Meghan McAuliffe
Clinical Director, Integrated Primary Care & School-Based Behavioral Health, Nemours Children's Health, Delaware; Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University.
Dela J Public Health. 2022 May 31;8(2):6-9. doi: 10.32481/djph.2022.05.002. eCollection 2022 May.
Addressing the behavioral health needs of the population is a growing public health concern; a significant portion of the population struggles with behavioral health challenges yet access to care is limited due to a multitude of barriers. Research has demonstrated that integration of behavioral health providers into the primary care team is an effective means of increasing care access and reducing barriers to care. While there has been an uptake in integrated primary care (IPC) in adult healthcare, there is significant opportunity for expanding IPC in pediatrics. Nemours Children's Health has developed a model IPC program to serve children and youth in Delaware and train future behavioral health professionals. Policy to support payment for IPC services and fund workforce development will be essential to sustaining the Nemours program as well as expanding this and other IPC models in order to serve more children and youth in Delaware and beyond.
满足人群的行为健康需求是日益受到关注的公共卫生问题；相当一部分人面临行为健康挑战，但由于诸多障碍，获得护理的机会有限。研究表明，将行为健康服务提供者纳入初级保健团队是增加护理可及性和减少护理障碍的有效手段。虽然成人医疗保健中综合初级保健（IPC）的采用有所增加，但在儿科扩大IPC仍有很大机会。Nemours儿童健康组织开发了一个IPC示范项目，为特拉华州的儿童和青少年提供服务，并培训未来的行为健康专业人员。支持支付IPC服务费用和资助劳动力发展的政策对于维持Nemours项目以及扩大该项目和其他IPC模式至关重要，以便为特拉华州及其他地区更多的儿童和青少年提供服务。
