childhood poverty
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Management
- create medical homes responsive to unique needs of poor families (including transportation issues)
- screen for social factors adversely affecting child health (including food insecurity)
- partner with community organizations to address families' unmet basic needs & stressors (incuding lack of food, unemployment)
- collaborate with early intervention programs, the Maternal, Infant, and Early Child Home Visiting Program, & programs that engage fathers
- address mental health needs of children & parents (including maternal depression screening at infant checkups)
More general terms
References
- ↑ Physician's First Watch, March 9, 2016 David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief Massachusetts Medical Society http://www.jwatch.org
Poverty and Child Health in the United States COUNCIL ON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS Pediatrics Apr 2016 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26962238 <Internet> http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/recent
Pascoe JM, Wood DL, Duffee JH et al Mediators and Adverse Effects of Child Poverty in the United States. Pediatrics Apr 2016 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26962239 <Internet> http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/recent