Health Systems Strategies to Ensure a Focus on Children with Health Complexity

This brief applies health complexity, a concept that considers both a child’s medical and social complexity, to address health disparities. It includes recommendations on how state agencies and health systems can develop and use health complexity data to ensure the most vulnerable children are at the center of health system redesign. Authors provide four options for systems-change and examples of success and implementation from the field.

See related webinar: Presenters describe how health systems can identify children with health complexity and provide actionable strategies and models to use this information to improve services and supports for families.