Poverty and children : a public health concern
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Poverty and children : a public health concern
（Health and human development series）
Nova Science Publishers, c2009
- : hardcover
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Poverty, while not a disease process, is well-known to have far-reaching effects on the health of children and adolescents. In developing countries, poverty is associated with inadequate shelter, unsafe water and inadequate nutrition, leading to increased rates of infectious diseases, including malaria and diarreal illnesses, as well as increased rates of infant and maternal mortality. Even in wealthy, industrialised countries, poverty negatively impacts on child health, starting life with increased rates of prematurity, low birth weight and maternal depression, and continuing into childhood with increased rates of asthma, dental caries, inadequate or inappropriate nutrition, as well as increased exposure to trauma and abuse, violence and crime. By the time these children become teen-aged patients in our clinic, they have increased rates of aggression, mental health problems and delinquent behaviours, as well as lower reading and math scores and increased rates of prematurely leaving their education. In this book edited by two leading experts we have asked people from different parts of the world to focus on the comorbidities of poverty.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- African American children and youth in poverty
- Asthma care and outcome
- Behavioral determinants related to pediatric overweight
- Anemia among adolescent females
- Low literacy in low-income adolescents
- Adolescent risk taking
- War, poverty and hopelessness in Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Low income households in India
- Intentional and unintentional injuries in urban South Africa
- Poverty in Israel -- Trends 1998-2005/6
- What pediatricians can do to make a difference
- Obesity prevention efforts in low-income children
- About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Index.
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