Arthur H Fierman, Andrew F Beck, Esther K Chung, Megan M Tschudy, Tumaini R Coker, Kamila B Mistry, Benjamin Siegel, Lisa J Chamberlain, Kathleen Conroy, Steven G Federico, Patricia J Flanagan, Arvin Garg, Benjamin A Gitterman, Aimee M Grace, Rachel S Gross, Michael K Hole, Perri Klass, Colleen Kraft, Alice Kuo, Gena Lewis, Katherine S Lobach, Dayna Long, Christine T Ma, Mary Messito, Dipesh Navsaria, Kimberley R Northrip, Cynthia Osman, Matthew D Sadof, Adam B Schickedanz, Joanne Cox
Child poverty in the United States is widespread and has serious negative effects on the health and well-being of children throughout their life course. Child health providers are considering ways to redesign their practices in order to mitigate the negative effects of poverty on children and support the efforts of families to lift themselves out of poverty. To do so, practices need to adopt effective methods to identify poverty-related social determinants of health and provide effective interventions to address them...
April 2016: Academic Pediatrics