Focusing on Children Health 1st Edition by Karen Anderson, Theresa Wizemann ISBN B002U4J9MY 9780309137850

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Authors:National Research Council , Series:Community Medicine [24] , Tags:Health and Medicine : Children’s Health , Author sort:National Research Council , Languages:Languages:eng , Published:Published:Aug 2009 , Publisher:National Academies Press , Comments:Comments:

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…