Focusing on Children's Health: Community Approaches to Addressing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary
2009

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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.

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132 pages · 6 x 9 · paperback
ISBN Paperback: 0-309-13785-3
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-13786-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/12637

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Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2009. Focusing on Children's Health: Community Approaches to Addressing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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Front Matter i-xx
1 Introduction 1-6
2 Disparities in Children's Health: Major Challenges and Opportunities 7-12
3 Investing in Children's Health 13-26
4 From Policy to Practice: How Policy Changes Can Affect Children's Lives 27-34
5 Community Development Approaches: Overcoming Challenges, Striving for Change 35-54
6 Do Businesses Have a Role Improving Communities or Improving Children's Lives? 55-68
7 Closing Comments 69-72
Appendix A: Workshop Agenda 73-76
Appendix B: Biosketches of Presenters and Authors 77-82
Appendix C: Resources 83-84
Appendix D: Special Presentation: Unnatural Causes 85-86
Appendix E: Clinical Health Care Practice and Community Building: Addressing Racial Disparities in Healthy Child Development 87-112

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Chapter: Appendix D: Special Presentation: Unnatural Causes

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Chapter: Appendix D: Special Presentation: Unnatural Causes