A5066887127- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Cultural Competency in Health Care
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Urticaria and Related Conditions
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
- Coagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema
- Vasculitis and related conditions
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Education Systems and Policy
- Community Health and Development
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
University of South Carolina
2019-2024
University of California, Riverside
2024
Prisma Health
2019-2023
Wake Forest University
2015-2022
Greenville College
2021
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
2017-2019
Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute
2017-2018
Greenville Memorial Hospital
2013
University of Pennsylvania
2008
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2008
Almost half of young children in the United States live poverty or near poverty. The American Academy Pediatrics is committed to reducing and ultimately eliminating child States. Poverty related social determinants health can lead adverse outcomes childhood across life course, negatively affecting physical health, socioemotional development, educational achievement. advocates for programs policies that have been shown improve quality families living With an awareness understanding effects on...
The impact of invasive procedures on preterm neonates has received little systematic attention. We examined facial activity, body movements, and physiological measures in 56 full-term newborns response to heel lancing, along with comparison preparatory recovery intervals. were recorded special care nurseries during routine blood sampling. Data analyses indicated that all measurement categories reactions greatest magnitude the lancing procedure. Neonates gestational ages as short 25-27 weeks...
This Policy Statement was reaffirmed March 2021. Sixteen million US children (21%) live in households without consistent access to adequate food. After multiple risk factors are considered, who that food insecure, even at the lowest levels, likely be sick more often, recover from illness slowly, and hospitalized frequently. Lack of healthy can impair a child’s ability concentrate perform well school is linked higher levels behavioral emotional problems preschool through adolescence. Food...
Immigrant children seeking safe haven in the United States, whether arriving unaccompanied or family units, face a complicated evaluation and legal process from point of arrival through permanent resettlement communities. The conditions which are detained support services that available to them great concern pediatricians other advocates for children. In accordance with internationally accepted rights child, immigrant refugee should be treated dignity respect not exposed may harm traumatize...
This Technical Report was reaffirmed April 2021. The link between poverty and children’s health is well recognized. Even temporary may have an adverse effect on health, data consistently support the observation that in childhood continues to a negative into adulthood. In addition morbidity being related child poverty, epidemiologic studies documented mortality gradient for children aged 1 15 years (and adults), with poor experiencing higher rate than from higher-income families. global great...
This Policy Statement was reaffirmed October 2022. High-quality home-visiting services for infants and young children can improve family relationships, advance school readiness, reduce child maltreatment, maternal-infant health outcomes, increase economic self-sufficiency. The American Academy of Pediatrics supports unwavering federal funding state initiatives, the expansion evidence-based programs, a robust, coordinated national evaluation designed to confirm best practices cost-efficiency....
Children in immigrant families (CIF), who represent 1 4 children the United States, a growing and ever more diverse US demographic that pediatric medical providers nationwide will increasingly encounter clinical care. Immigrant are those born outside States to non-US citizen parents, CIF defined as either foreign or have at least parent is born. Some immigrate for economic educational reasons, others come fleeing persecution seeking safe haven. US-born with foreign-born may share...
Social workers from clinical, academic, and research settings met in 2002 for a national Work Leadership Summit on Palliative End-of-Life Care. Participants placed the highest priority development broad dissemination of summary document state-of-the-art practice social work palliative end-of-life care. Nine participants reviewed literature constructed this detailed description knowledge, skills, values that are requisite unique, essential, appropriate role work. This comprehensive statement...
Among Latinos in the United States, particularly new settlement states, racial/ethnic discrimination, violence, and immigration enforcement contribute to health disparities. These types of experiences were explored among Latino men North Carolina through quantitative assessment data ( n = 247). Qualitative in-depth interviews also conducted with a subsample who completed 20) contextualize findings. Participants reported high rates unfair treatment, discrimination or questioning about their...
Exploitation and labor sex trafficking of children adolescents is a major public health problem in the United States throughout world. Significant numbers US non-US–born (including unaccompanied immigrant minors) are affected by this growing concern may experience range serious physical mental problems associated with human exploitation (T/E). Despite these considerations, there limited information available for care providers regarding nature scope T/E how help recognize protect...
Background: In the orthopaedic literature, there is a wide range of clinical outcome measurement tools that have been used in evaluating foot and ankle procedures, disorders, outcomes, with no broadly accepted consensus as to which are preferred. The purpose this study was determine frequency distribution various instruments identify trends for use these over time. Methods: We conducted systematic review all original articles reporting on and/or topics six journals ten-year period (2002...
Ensuring optimal health for children requires a population-based approach and collaboration between pediatrics public health. The prevention of major threats to children's (such as behavioral issues) the control management chronic diseases, obesity, injury, communicable other problems cannot be managed solely in pediatric office. integration clinical practice with actions is necessary multiple levels disease that involve child, family, community. Although pediatricians professionals interact...
OPEN ACCESSJanuary 25, 2019Introducing the Concepts of Advocacy and Social Determinants Health Within Pediatric Clerkship Melanie C. Marsh, MD, Sarah Supples, Skyler McLaurin-Jiang, Callie L. Brown, MPH, Julie M. Linton, MD Resident, Wake Forest School Medicine Baptist Medical Center E-mail Address: [email protected] , Instructor, Department Pediatrics, MPH Assistant Professor, Center; Epidemiology Prevention, Associate Director, Integrating Special Populations Program, Maya Angelou for...
US immigration policy changes may affect health care use among Latinx children. We hypothesized that January 2017 restrictive executive actions would lead to decreased children.We used controlled interrupted time series estimate the effect of on outpatient cancellation or no-show rates from October 2016 March ("immigration action period") children in 4 systems North Carolina. included control groups (1) non-Latinx and (2) same period previous year ("control account for natural trends such as...
Introduction:To impact social determinants of health, physicians require knowledge, skills, and attitudes to work with communities beyond the clinical milieu.The American Academy Pediatrics (AAP) Community Training Initiative (CPTI) project planning tool can guide health care professionals trainees identify define issues, build coalitions, assess interventions, ensure sustainability successful programs.The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education guidelines pediatric training...
Restrictive immigration policies and discrimination are associated with negative health outcomes for immigrant Latino families. Mixed-status families represent a unique subpopulation of Latinos affected by restrictive policies. This qualitative study explored against mixed-status its potential impact on children from the perspective Latina mothers.In 2017, twenty in-depth interviews mothers living in northwestern North Carolina were conducted, transcribed, analyzed. Constant comparison, an...