Focusing on Children's Health
eBook - PDF

Focusing on Children's Health

Community Approaches to Addressing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary

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  1. 133 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Focusing on Children's Health

Community Approaches to Addressing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary

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About this book

Socioeconomic conditions are known to be major determinants of health at all stages of life, from pregnancy through childhood and adulthood. "e;Life-course epidemiology"e; has added a further dimension to the understanding of the social determinants of health by showing an association between early-life socioeconomic conditions and adult health-related behaviors, morbidity, and mortality. Sensitive and critical periods of development, such as the prenatal period and early childhood, present significant opportunities to influence lifelong health. Yet simply intervening in the health system is insufficient to influence health early in the life course. Community-level approaches to affect key determinants of health are also critical.Many of these issues were raised in the 1995 National Academies book, Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth. The present volume builds upon this earlier book with presentations and examples from the field. Focusing on Children's Health describes the evidence linking early childhood life conditions and adult health; discusses the contribution of the early life course to observed racial and ethnic disparities in health; and highlights successful models that engage both community factors and health care to affect life course development.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9780309137867
Edition
0
Topic
Medicine

Table of contents

  1. FrontMatter
  2. Reviewers
  3. Contents
  4. Tables, Figures, and Boxes
  5. Preface
  6. 1 Introduction
  7. 2 Disparities in Childrenā€™s Health: Major Challenges and Opportunities
  8. 3 Investing in Childrenā€™s Health
  9. 4 From Policy to Practice: How Policy Changes Can Affect Childrenā€™s Lives
  10. 5 Community Development Approaches: Overcoming Challenges, Striving for Change
  11. 6 Do Businesses Have a Role Improving Communities or Improving Childrenā€™s Lives?
  12. 7 Closing Comments
  13. Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
  14. Appendix B: Biosketches of Presenters and Authors
  15. Appendix C: Resources
  16. Appendix D: Special Presentation: Unnatural Causes
  17. Appendix E: Clinical Health Care Practice and Community Building: Addressing Racial Disparities in Healthy Child Development