PEDIATRICS Vol. 45 No. 4 April 1970, pp. 702-712
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RESEARCH ISSUES IN CHILD HEALTH. II. SOME MEDICAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES

Robert J. Haggerty M.D.1

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York

I have in this discussion advanced the notion that we should combine our humanitarian principles with our critical research questions and carry out the bold medical care experiment characteristic of Head Start's educational goals. We should ensure that children receive a basic comprehensive medical care program and then combine it with controlled experiments to answer some of the high priority questions about which we have so little data, such as manpower innovations, medical needs, screening tests, attitudes, utilization, prevalence data, and costs.

The solution, as in so much of life, is not a rigid adherence to a limited, parsimonious program or a totally uncritical and wasteful approach, but a middle ground. The middle is always hard to find and even more difficult to maintain. A comprehensive care program with certain guidelines, requirements of quality, and restrictions on unnecessary procedures is my middle ground with simultaneous stimulation through incentives to carry out specific research projects on top of this.




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