Vibrant and healthy kids : aligning science, practice, and policy to advance health equity / Jennifer E. DeVoe, Amy Geller, and Yamrot Negussie, editors ; Committee on applying Neurobiological and Socio-behavioral Sciences from Prenatal through Early Childhood Development: A Health Equity Approach ; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice ; Health and Medicine Division ; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2019] |
| Description | xxii, 597 pages : color illustraions ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Other author/creator | De Voe, Jennifer. |
| Other author/creator | Geller, Amy (Amy B.) |
| Other author/creator | Negussie, Yamrot. |
| Other author/creator | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Applying Neurobiological and Socio-behavioral Sciences from Prenatal through Early Childhood Development. |
| Series | Consensus study report. Consensus study report. ^A1363519 |
| Abstract | All children deserve the opportunity to meet their full health potential and lead a fulfilling life. Our nation's future depends on it. Yet, there are millions of children in the United States who are not afforded this opportunity today. While spending a record amount of money on health care services, the United States has the worst infant mortality rate among 19 similar wealthy nations, and the U.S. maternal mortality rate in 2018 was our highest since 2000. Although the United States is one of the richest nations in the world, in 2015 more than 9.6 million children lived in families with annual incomes below the poverty line (based on the Supplemental Poverty Measure), with approximately 2.1 million living in deep poverty. The highest rates of poverty were found among Hispanic, African American, and American Indian/Alaska Native families. This is deeply concerning because poverty during pregnancy and childhood is directly tied to poor health and developmental outcomes. Our nation's health disparities, of which there are many, are directly linked to what happens in early children and prenatally (and even earlier). For all children to lead fulfilling lives, we need to first achieve health equity as a nation, and to do so, we must focus on the youngest, and most vulnerable, in our nation. We also need to look beyond health care for solutions; while health care is necessary to improve health outcomes, fixing health care alone will not address health inequities.-- publishers website. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019948065 |
| ISBN | 9780309493383 paperback |
| ISBN | 0309493382 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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