Table Of ContentChild Health
Child Health
A Population Perspective
EDITED BY
ALICE A. KUO
RYAN J. COLLER
SARAH STEWART-BROWN
and
MITCH BLAIR
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Child health (Kuo)
Child health : a population perspective / edited by Alice A. Kuo, Ryan Coller,
Sarah Stewart-Brown, Mitch Blair.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978–0–19–930937–5
I. Kuo, Alice A., editor. II. Coller, Ryan, editor. III. Stewart-Brown, Sarah L., editor.
IV. Blair, Mitch, editor. V. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Child Welfare—United States. 2. Health Status—United States.
3. Social Determinants of Health—United States. WA 320 AA1]
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362.19892—dc23
2015009181
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Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper
This book is dedicated to Tom Tonniges, MD,
an outstanding pediatrician and tireless child health advocate.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
About the Editors xv
Contributors xvii
Introduction 1
Alice A. Kuo
1. Historical and Policy Perspectives of Child Health in
the United States 9
Katherine A. Henry AND Mienah Zulfacar Sharif
2. Current State of Child Health in the United States 31
Mienah Zulfacar Sharif, Katherine A. Henry, AND Bergen B. Nelson
3. Children, Families, and Communities 49
Ryan J. Coller AND Alice A. Kuo
4. Social Determinants of Child Health 79
Ryan J. Coller AND Alice A. Kuo
5. Life Course Health Development 111
Alice A. Kuo
6. Immigration and Child Health 133
Mienah Zulfacar Sharif AND Katherine A. Henry
7. Global Child Health 157
Alice A. Kuo
8. Population Child Health in Practice 181
Mitch Blair, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Tony Waterston,
AND Rachel Crowther
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9. Concepts in Population Child Health 209
Mitch Blair, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Tony Waterston,
AND Rachel Crowther
10. Case Studies in Population Child Health 255
Ryan J. Coller
Index 325
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I have been very fortunate in my career to work with outstanding trainees at
UCLA, including undergraduates, medical and graduate students, residents, and
fellows. The impetus for this book came largely from the Community Health
and Advocacy Training (CHAT) program in pediatrics, which I directed from
2000 through 2014, and my undergraduate Foundations of Maternal and Child
Health course, which I have been teaching every year in the Fielding School of
Public Health since 2009. I am proud of the fact that the US-based team for
this book is comprised of either current or former trainees. The perspectives and
approaches in this book are based on the questions asked by former students,
and I hope it will help future students understand child health.
I must acknowledge my mentors who taught me child health. First and
foremost is Neal Halfon, who has supported my training and career from the
beginning, and who continues to inspire me with his brilliance, optimism, and
steadfast dedication to improving systems of care for children. Frank Oberklaid
taught me about community child health while I was a med-peds resident and
encouraged me to look beyond the United States at international models for
child health. Bruce Fuller, Margaret Bridges, Alex Ortega, Mike Prelip, Deborah
Glik, and Paul Shattuck are all great research collaborators and have furthered
my thinking about children, families, and communities. Alan Fogelman has been
a wonderful mentor and department chair, and I deeply appreciate his support of
all of my endeavors. I am also incredibly grateful to Tom Tonniges, who brought
me to work on child advocacy issues at the American Academy of Pediatrics in
2004. He has been a wonderful friend.
I could not have worked on this book without the unwavering support of my
family: my parents, my parents-in-law, my husband, John, and my boys, Matthew
(age 7) and Noah (age 3). Their encouragement helps me strive to make the
world a better place for children.
—Alice A. Kuo
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