Child Health Equity, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America, E-Book

Child Health Equity, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America, E-Book
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Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780323939089
ISBN-13 : 0323939082
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Book Synopsis Child Health Equity, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America, E-Book by : Robert S. Kahn

Download or read book Child Health Equity, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America, E-Book written by Robert S. Kahn and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Robert S. Kahn, Monica Mitchell, and Tina L. Cheng bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Achieving Child Health Equity. Health equity requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care. In this issue, top experts provide up-to-date information to healthcare practitioners with the goal of implementing programs and policies to identify and address health care inequality for children. - Contains 15 practice-oriented topics including clarity on disparity of healthcare in pediatrics: who, what, when, where and how; screening and addressing social determinants of health in pediatric practice; addressing structural racism in pediatric practice; addressing health literacy in pediatric practice; LGBTQ+ and child health equity; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews of achieving child health equity, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.


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