Child Health - A Population Perspective

Child Health: A Population Perspective examines both the history of child health and the three dynamics that most define it: the principles and dynamics between children, families, and communities; social determinants of health; and life course health development.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Alice A. Kuo


• 1. Historical and Policy Perspectives


• Katherine A. Henry, Mienah Z. Sharif


• 2. Current State of Child Health in the U.S.


• Mienah Z. Sharif, Katherine A. Henry, Bergen B. Nelson


• 3. Children, Families and Communities


• Ryan J. Coller, Alice A. Kuo


• 4. Social Determinants of Child Health


• Ryan J. Coller, Alice A. Kuo


• 5. Life Course Health Development


• Alice A. Kuo


• 6. Immigration and Child Health


• Mienah Z. Sharif, Katherine A. Henry


• 7. Global Child Health


• Alice A. Kuo


• 8. Population Child Health in Practice


• Mitch Blair, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Tony Waterston, Rachel Crowther


• 9. Concepts in Population Child Health


• Mitch Blair, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Tony Waterston, Rachel Crowther


• 10. Case Studies in Population Child Health


• Ryan J. Coller

About the author

Alice A. Kuo, MD, PhD, MEd, is Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Health Policy and Management, and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ryan J. Coller, MD, MPH, is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Sarah Stewart-Brown, BM, BCh, BA, MA, PhD, FFPH, FRCPCH, FRCP, is Professor of Public Health at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK.

Mitch Blair, MBBS, Bsc, MSc, FRCP, FRCPCH, FFPH (hon), FHEA, is Professor of Pediatrics and Child Public Health at River Island Academic Centre for Pediatrics and Child Public Health, Northwick Park Hospital and Imperial College London.

Summary

Child Health: A Population Perspective examines both the history of child health and the three dynamics that most define it: the principles and dynamics between children, families, and communities; social determinants of health; and life course health development.

Product details

• Authors: Alice A Kuo, Alice A. Kuo, Alice A. (Associate Professor of Pediatrics Kuo, Alice A. Coller Kuo
• Assisted by: Dr. Mitch Blair (Editor), Mitch Blair (Editor), Ryan J Coller (Editor), Ryan J. Coller (Editor), Coller Ryan J. (Editor), Alice A Kuo (Editor), Alice A. Kuo (Editor), Kuo Alice A. (Editor), Prof. Sarah Stewart-Brown (Editor), Sarah Stewart-Brown (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.11.2015
• EAN: 9780199309375
• ISBN: 978-0-19-930937-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; USA, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Pediatrics, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, History of Medicine, United States of America, USA, Public health & preventive medicine, Child welfare, Paediatric medicine, Child welfare and youth services, Public health and preventive medicine, Paediatric medicine / child and adolescent medicine