Telehealth Opportunities and Challenges for Managing Pediatric Obesity

Victor Cueto; Lee M Sanders

doi:10.1016/j.pcl.2020.04.007

Telehealth Opportunities and Challenges for Managing Pediatric Obesity

Pediatr Clin North Am. 2020 Aug;67(4):647-654. doi: 10.1016/j.pcl.2020.04.007.

Authors

Victor Cueto¹, Lee M Sanders²

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department Internal Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 150 Bergen Street, Room H-251, Newark, NJ 07103, USA. Electronic address: victor.cueto@rutgers.edu.
² Division of General Pediatrics, Department Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1265 Welch Rd, 240x, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

PMID: 32650862
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2020.04.007

Abstract

Telehealth is well positioned to address the common challenges of providing high-quality care to children and adolescents with obesity. The potential benefits of telehealth for pediatric obesity are applicable across the full spectrum of care from diagnosis and assessment to ongoing management. This article reviews the emerging field of telehealth for the treatment of pediatric obesity. The challenges of the current approach to pediatric obesity care are explored, and the potential benefits of incorporating and implementing telehealth in this field are presented. The care of pediatric patients with obesity is particularly well suited for telehealth.

Keywords: Pediatric obesity; Telehealth; mHealth.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Child
Humans
Mobile Applications
Observational Studies as Topic
Pediatric Obesity / diagnosis
Pediatric Obesity / therapy*
Quality of Health Care
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Rural Population
Telemedicine / methods*
Text Messaging