Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health.National Research Council and Institute of Medicine Washington, DC:National Academies Press, 2004. 210 pp. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0-309-09249-3, $44.95 cloth. Children's Health Children's Health Definition Children's health encompasses the physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being of children from infancy through adolescence. , The Nation's Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health examines the information needed to help policymakers and program service providers improve and monitor children's health. This report from the Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health (National Research Council and Institute of Medicine) focuses on population health issues related to children and provides a framework for measurement of children's health. It does not recommend specific measures to monitor children's health. The report summarizes what is known about the health of children and why children's health is important. The term "children" is used to refer to the ages between birth and 18 years of age. Children's health is defined as "the extent to which individual children or groups of children are able or enabled to (a) develop and realize their potential, (b) satisfy their needs, and (c) develop the capacities that allow them to interact successfully with their biological, physical, and social environments." The committee highlights a new conceptual model of children's health and its influences, which are multiple, interactive, and changing over the course of childhood. This model depicts the relative importance and interaction of social environment, biology, physical environment, and behavior for children's health over the course of development, as well as the service and policy contexts in which children live. Critical differences between children and adults are emphasized, as are the special developmental issues of different age groups of children. The authors note improvements in U.S. children's health over the past century, as measured by reduced infant mortality (hardware) infant mortality - It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large) that the chances of sudden hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first use (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical , reduced morbidity and mortality Morbidity and Mortality can refer to:
The title of the report is somewhat misleading because there is little emphasis on the connection between children's health and the national economy ("wealth") either in terms of burden of disease or cost-effectiveness analyses of programs. However, socioeconomic disparities in health are discussed throughout in the context of missing or insufficient data. This new report describes the information needed to improve decision making and devotes significant attention to the need for coordination and cooperation among agencies regarding data integration, standardization standardization In industry, the development and application of standards that make it possible to manufacture a large volume of interchangeable parts. Standardization may focus on engineering standards, such as properties of materials, fits and tolerances, and drafting , and data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. agreements. The new children's health model recommends that policymakers should adopt a broader view of children's health and implement innovative methodologies to assess both current conditions and emerging threats to children's health. Clearly, the title asserts that children are vital assets to our society. Overall, the report is an important contribution to a strategic plan for ensuring the health of future generations. ADRIENNE S Adrienne is the French feminine form of the male name Adrien. Adrienne may refer to:
Adrienne S. Ettinger is currently assistant professor of health policy and management and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is part of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. It was the first institution of its kind in the world. Founded in 1916 by William H. Welch and John D. . Her research involves pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. and perinatal perinatal /peri·na·tal/ (-na´t'l) relating to the period shortly before and after birth; from the twentieth to twenty-ninth week of gestation to one to four weeks after birth. per·i·na·tal adj. epidemiology, specifically applied to children's environmental health issues, and the translation and application of epidemiologic evidence to public health policy. |
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