US Housing Insecurity and the Health of Very Young Children

Cutts, Diana; Meyers, Alan; Black, Maureen M.; Casey, Patrick H.; Chilton, Mariana; Cook, John T.; Geppert, Joni; Cuba, Stephanie Ettinger de; Heeren, Timothy; Coleman, S. M.; Rose-Jacobs, Ruth; Frank, Deborah A.

doi:10.2105/ajph.2011.300139

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“…81 Inquiring whether families have moved frequently in the past year or have lived with another family for financial reasons will reveal housing insecurity. 82 Effective early identification of families in need may facilitate prevention services, including nutritional supplements for young children, preventive health services, age-appropriate learning opportunities, and socioemotional support of parents. Program evaluation has supported this multifaceted approach in multiple countries and settings.…”

Section: Early Identifi Cation Of Families In Need Of Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Poverty and Child Health in the United States

Gitterman¹,

Flanagan²,

Cotton³

et al. 2016

Pediatrics

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Almost half of young children in the United States live in poverty or near poverty. The American Academy of Pediatrics is committed to reducing and ultimately eliminating child poverty in the United States. Poverty and related social determinants of health can lead to adverse health outcomes in childhood and across the life course, negatively affecting physical health, socioemotional development, and educational achievement. The American Academy of Pediatrics advocates for programs and policies that have been shown to improve the quality of life and health outcomes for children and families living in poverty. With an awareness and understanding of the effects of poverty on children, pediatricians and other pediatric health practitioners in a family-centered medical home can assess the financial stability of families, link families to resources, and coordinate care with community partners. Further research, advocacy, and continuing education will improve the ability of pediatricians to address the social determinants of health when caring for children who live in poverty. Accompanying this policy statement is a technical report that describes current knowledge on child poverty and the mechanisms by which poverty influences the health and well-being of children.

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Section: Early Identifi Cation Of Families In Need Of Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Poverty and Child Health in the United States

Gitterman¹,

Flanagan²,

Cotton³

et al. 2016

Pediatrics

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171

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“…80 Low-income children also are much more likely to experience housing instability and multiple moves. 81, 82 The physical environment of low-income children is more hazardous than that of higherincome children, because they are exposed more frequently to pollution, lower-quality homes, and dangerous neighborhoods. 83 …”

Section: The Environment Of Povertymentioning

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Mediators and Adverse Effects of Child Poverty in the United States

Pascoe¹,

Wood²,

Duffee³

et al. 2016

Pediatrics

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The link between poverty and children's health is well recognized. Even temporary poverty may have an adverse effect on children's health, and data consistently support the observation that poverty in childhood continues to have a negative effect on health into adulthood. In addition to childhood morbidity being related to child poverty, epidemiologic studies have documented a mortality gradient for children aged 1 to 15 years (and adults), with poor children experiencing a higher mortality rate than children from higher-income families. The global great recession is only now very slowly abating for millions of America's children and their families. At this diffi cult time in the history of our nation's families and immediately after the 50th anniversary year of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, it is particularly germane for the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is "dedicated to the health of all children, " to publish a research-supported technical report that examines the mediators associated with the longrecognized adverse effects of child poverty on children and their families. This technical report draws on research from a number of disciplines, including physiology, sociology, psychology, economics, and epidemiology, to describe the present state of knowledge regarding poverty's negative impact on children's health and development. Children inherit not only their parents' genes but also the family ecology and its social milieu. Thus, parenting skills, housing, neighborhood, schools, and other factors (eg, medical care) all have complex relations to each other and infl uence how each child's genetic canvas is expressed. Accompanying this technical report is a policy statement that describes specifi c actions that pediatricians and other child advocates can take to attenuate the negative effects of the mediators identifi ed in this technical report and improve the well-being of our nation's children and their families.There is no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. Although medical care and access to medical care are important factors in the health of children as well as adults, a broader perspective of the social determinants of health throughout the life cycle is critically important if significant gains are to be realized in our efforts to improve the health of this nation's children. -Nelson Mandela TECHNICAL REPORTResearch that examines mediators of health as well as the effects of poverty and other circumstances in which people grow, live, work, and age in childhood and throughout the life course is accumulating rapidly, and findings are providing critical insights that can inform these efforts. 4 The environment in which a child develops is influenced by parents' health, the immediate and extended family, housing, and community. All these factors are related to a family's social, economic, and health status. 5 These multiple factors in both the social and the physical domains have dynamic influences that link them to the long-t...

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“…5,6 Poverty affects children both directly, when material needs are not met, and indirectly, through amplifying family stress. Children's health suffers when basic needs such as food, [7][8][9][10][11][12] housing, 13,14 and utilities 15,16 are not met. Adverse impacts include low weight for age, developmental concerns and behavioral problems, higher risk of hospitalization, and overall poor health as rated by parents.…”

Section: What This Study Addsmentioning

confidence: 99%