Table 3.

Key Policy Recommendations

Policies to enhance scaling

• Provide stable funding for programs using pediatric primary care setting for prevention of poverty-related disparities in school readiness • Support for development of organizational infrastructure for program dissemination • Development of processes for integration of interventions within health care system • Requirement that preventive services recommended by American Academy of Pediatrics and Bright Futures be funded as basic component of pediatric primary care

Policies to maximize effects

• Fund research to develop, pilot, and study effect of preventive programs using primary care platform • Support for study of optimal dose and intensity across heterogeneous populations • Support for strategies linking health care platform to community, preschool, and home • Enhanced support for national collaborative cross-disciplinary research networks