Child health : a population perspective / / edited by Alice A. Kuo [and three others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461703703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 0-19-022598-X; 0-19-930938-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.19892
• Soggetti: Child welfare - United States; Health status indicators - United States; Health - Social aspects - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Historical and policy perspectives / Katherine Henry, Mienah Zulfacar Sharif -- Current state of child health in the U.S. / Mienah Zulfacar Sharif, Katherine Henry, Bergen Nelson -- Children, families, and communities / Ryan Coller, Alice Kuo -- Social determinants of child health / Ryan Coller, Alice Kuo -- Life course health development / Alice Kuo -- Immigration and child health / Mienah Zulfacar Sharif, Katherine Henry -- Global child health / Alice Kuo -- Population child health in practice / Mitch Blair, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Tony Waterston, Rachel Crowther -- Concepts in population child health / Mitch Blair, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Tony Waterston, Rachel Crowther -- Case studies in population child health / Ryan Coller.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume 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.