| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 111 pages) : maps, charts |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Disparities in children's health : major challenges and opportunities -- Investing in children's health -- From policy to practice : how policy changes can affect children's lives -- Community development approaches : overcoming challenges, striving for change -- Do businesses have a role improving communities or improving children's lives? -- Closing comments -- Appendixes : A. Workshop agenda -- B. Biosketches of presenters and authors -- C. Resources -- D. Special presentation : unnatural causes -- E. Clinical health care practice and community building : addressing racial disparities in healthy child development. |
| Summary |
"On January 24, 2008, the Roundtable on Health Disparities, in collaboration with the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Research Council and the IOM, held a workshop at the Morehouse School of Medicine's Louis W. Sullivan National Center for Primary Care Auditorium in Atlanta, Georgia. The Roundtable brought together a diverse group of experts from a variety of fields to discuss the relationship between socioeconomic conditions early in life and later health outcomes. Life course epidemiology has added a further dimension to our understanding of the social determinants of health by showing an association between early socioeconomic conditions and adult health related behaviors as well as adult morbidity and mortality. Realizing that the foundations of adult health and adult health behaviors are laid prenatally and early in childhood, the Roundtable's workshop focused on (1) describing the evidence linking early childhood life conditions and adult health outcomes; (2) discussing the contribution of early childhood conditions to observed racial and ethnic disparities in health; (3) highlighting successful models that engage both community factors and health care factors that affect life course development; and (4) facilitating discussion of these issues among stakeholders in academia, community development, health care, business, and philanthropy." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Child health insurance.
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Child health insurance. |
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Child health services.
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Child health services. |
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Child health services -- Finance.
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Child health services -- Finance. |
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Federal aid to child health services.
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Federal aid to child health services. |
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Healthcare Disparities. |
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Health Status Disparities. |
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Socioeconomic Factors. |
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Child Health Services. |
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Community Health Services. |
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Insurance, Health. |
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Child. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Congress.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Wizemann, Theresa M.
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Anderson, Karen, 1948-
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Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Health Disparities.
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National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Children, Youth, and Families.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Focusing on children's health. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2009 9780309137850 (OCoLC)440729945 |
| ISBN |
9780309137867 (electronic book) |
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0309137861 (electronic book) |
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9780309137850 (paperback) |
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0309137853 (paperback) |
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