Families and Child Health
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Beschreibung
An adult's health is determined not only by stress levels, food choices, and recreational habits. Science is paying increased attention to the roles of prenatal, perinatal, and early childhood conditions in shaping health and well-being across the lifespan.
Families and Child Health brings clarity to this complex and multifaceted topic. This comprehensive volume presents analyses of the interactions between the "nature" and "nurture" components of the equation, providing current findings on in utero nutrition and development and examining the roles of social determinants and family discord in the creation of health disparities. Contributors emphasize opportunities for prevention and intervention and make the case for interdisciplinary collaboration. Among the topics covered in depth are:
- Early developmental origins of chronic disease.
- Lifecourse exposures and social disparities in child health.
- The science of designing, implementing, and evaluating programs and policies for child health.
- Effects of early psychosocial deprivation on children's cognitive and social development.
- The family-friendly workplace and its impact on child and family health.
- Integrating perspectives on children's health.
Families and Child Health is bedrock reading for researchers, professors, and graduate students in disparate fields such as policy analysis, human development, family studies, sociology, social welfare, family demography, public health, health science, clinical psychology, social psychology, behavioral medicine, and public policy. Policymakers will also find it of considerable importance.
In recent years, there has been an explosion of research on the early origins of adult health. A growing body of evidence documents that maternal health before conception, prenatal and perinatal exposures, and conditions in childhood play critical roles in health over the life course. Scientific understanding of the multiple and interacting influences on child health and their role in later health continues to evolve rapidly, but greater attention to how families shape the conditions of early life that underlie childhood health is needed. This volume aims to advance understanding of this topic, with attention to mechanisms through which health disparities emerge and are sustained across the lifespan.
Covers family influences on health in childhood and throughout the life course Explores early biosocial influences on health Addresses the interactive effects of psychological, family, and social and environmental processes on children's health ? Focuses on social programs and policies
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Nancy S Landale
Themen in »Families and Child Health«
Child and Family Health Developing Family-friendly Policies Developmental origins of disease Emotional Security Theory Emotional insecurity and child health Family discord and child health Family dynamics and children's health Family-focused Prevention Interventions Health Care for Children Health Care in the U.S. Health disparities Impact of social policies on children's health Perspectives on Child Health Social Class and Child Health Social Policies and Child Health