Childrens Health The Nations Wealth

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309166608
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's health has clearly improved over the past several decades. Significant and positive gains have been made in lowering rates of infant mortality and morbidity from infectious diseases and accidental causes, improved access to health care, and reduction in the effects of environmental contaminants such as lead. Yet major questions still remain about how to assess the status of children's health, what factors should be monitored, and the appropriate measurement tools that should be used. Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health provides a detailed examination of the information about children's health that is needed to help policy makers and program providers at the federal, state, and local levels. In order to improve children's health-and, thus, the health of future generations-it is critical to have data that can be used to assess both current conditions and possible future threats to children's health. This compelling book describes what is known about the health of children and what is needed to expand the knowledge. By strategically improving the health of children, we ensure healthier future generations to come.

Author : Daniel P. Keating
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572304550
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developmental Health and the Wealth of Nations written by Daniel P. Keating and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2000-02-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probing the effects of the social environment upon human development, this volume asks how we can best support the health and well-being of infants and children in an era of rapid economic and technological change. The book presents cogent findings on human development as both an individual and a population phenomenon. Topics covered include links between socioeconomic status, achievement, and health; the impact of early experience upon brain and behavioral development; and how schools and communities can develop new kinds of learning environments to enhance adaptation and foster intellectual growth. Synthesizing developmental, biological, and social perspectives, this volume will appeal to a broad interdisciplinary audience.

Author : Patrick Kabanda
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108423574
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creative Wealth of Nations written by Patrick Kabanda and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how we can, and why we should, apply the arts in development to promote meaningful economic and social progress.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309483980
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.

Author : Alice A. Kuo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199309388
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Health written by Alice A. Kuo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children in the U.S. are not faring well. Despite major advances in public health, hygiene, and treatment for acute infections, child health outcomes in the U.S. are among the bottom for developed countries. As we enter the third decade of a child obesity epidemic, children born in the last ten years are now likely to have a shorter lifespan than their parents. Coupled with an epidemic of childhood mental health issues -- many of them unaddressed due to stigma or lack of recognition -- plus the impacts of gun violence, poverty, and youth incarceration contribute to an overall culture that fails to prioritize the health and welfare of our youngest members of society. Child Health: A Population Perspective examines both the history of child health and the three dynamics that most define it: the principles and dynamics between children, families, and communities; social determinants of health; and life course health development. With both theoretical grounding and illustrative case studies, this book provides a core framework for students in maternal and child health to better understand the issues facing children today -- and how to serve them best.

Author : David Halpern
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745656277
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Wealth of Nations written by David Halpern and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richer nations are happier, yet economic growth doesn't increase happiness. This paradox is explained by the Hidden Wealth of Nations - the extent to which citizens get along with other independently drives both economic growth and well-being. Much of this hidden wealth is expressed in everyday ways, such as our common values, the way we look after our children and elderly, or whether we trust and help strangers. It is a hidden dimension of inequality, and helps to explain why governments have found it so hard to reduce gaps in society. There are also deep cracks in this hidden wealth, in the form of our rising fears of crime, immigration and terror. Using a rich variety of international comparisons and new analysis, the book explores what is happening in contemporary societies from value change to the changing role of governments, and offers suggestions about what policymakers and citizens can do about it.

Author : R. Lawrence Moss, MD, FACS, FAAP
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467106232
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nemours Children's Health written by R. Lawrence Moss, MD, FACS, FAAP and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, American industrialist Alfred I. duPont sparked what would become a model of pediatric medical and research excellence. With an endowed trust, his widow, Jessie Ball duPont, established the Nemours Foundation. In 1940, the foundation opened the Alfred I. duPont Institute, a small pediatric orthopedic hospital on the duPont estate in Wilmington, Delaware. Today, duPont's legacy lives on at Nemours Children's Health, the nation's only multistate pediatric health care network. With two children's hospitals in Delaware and Florida, nearly 100 pediatric care locations, an office of policy and prevention in Washington, DC, and award-winning patient education initiatives such as KidsHealth.org, Nemours has touched the lives of millions worldwide.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309137853
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focusing on Children's Health written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socioeconomic conditions are known to be major determinants of health at all stages of life, from pregnancy through childhood and adulthood. "Life-course epidemiology" 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.

Author : Dankwart F. Wittenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781868541164
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Children's Health written by Dankwart F. Wittenberg and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Tennant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth written by Margaret Tennant and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1922 the Wangangui Chronicle reported that a Turakina farm was "fattening more valuable stock than it has ever fattened before in its pastoral records". The "stock" comprised delicate and supposedly malnourished children who, since 1919, had been sent to summer health camps run by the formidable Dr Elizabeth Gunn. The history of children's health camps provides a fascinating study of attitudes and policies relating to childhood in New Zealand. [This book] charts the changes in the social construction of health and childhood. Extensively illustrated and enlivened by personalities and anecdotes, it contains a valuable case study of the relationship between the state and a voluntary movement over eight decades. Moving from the broad sweep of policy concerns to the day-to-day experiences of health camp children, it makes an important contribution to the history of New Zealand childhood. [This book] will appeal to all with an interest in the development of health and social policies during the twentieth century, as well as the many New Zealanders who participated in the health camps."--Back cover.