- Child and Adolescent Health
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- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Menstrual Health and Disorders
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Crafts, Textile, and Design
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Art, Technology, and Culture
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- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Estrogen and related hormone effects
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
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Brown University
2005-2024
Art Gallery of New South Wales
2023
UNSW Sydney
2016-2023
Hasbro Children's Hospital
2003-2023
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2017
Walsh University
2016
Hong Kong Baptist University
2013-2016
Paddington Cat Hospital
2016
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
2013
Family Health Center of Worcester
2012
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...
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...
Background Recent work with head-up tilt-table testing has suggested that many patients syncope may have recurrent neurally mediated episodes of bradycardia, hypotension, or both. The purpose this study was to determine how identify at high risk a recurrence neuromediated after positive isoproterenol/tilt-table test. Methods and Results A cohort 101 drug-free in university hospital outpatient clinic test underwent baseline assessment demographic variables, symptomatic burden, hemodynamic...
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....
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) affirms that the optimal location for children to receive care acute, nonemergency health concerns is medical home. home characterized by AAP as a model "must be accessible, family centered, continuous, comprehensive, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective." However, some families use acute services outside because there perceived or real benefit related accessibility, convenience, cost care. Examples such entities include urgent...
To use both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the experience of motherhood during adolescence evaluate developmental influences on concept maternal role.(1) A grounded theory approach was initially used generate a hypothesis. Focus groups individual interviews were analyzed for theme. (2) method using correlational analysis test hypothesis generated by study. structured interview five specific, scored questions about self relationship between complexity responses motherhood.The...
The transition and transfer from pediatrics to adult health care of youth with without special needs has become a focus professional organizations, insurers, national policy makers, providers. To understand at primary practice level, all pediatricians in Rhode Island were surveyed. Responses received 103 169 (60.9%) practicing pediatricians. Few responders had policies on transfer. Most reported that should begin later than recommended. practices communicated providers insurers little help...
Wearable fabrics are predominantly produced from synthetic polymer fibres derived petrochemicals. These have negative effects on the natural environment as a consequence of manufacturing process, insurmountable waste production, and persistence in ecosystems. With use wearables worldwide set to increase exponentially, more environmentally friendly sought. Natural such spider silk using proteins water solvent, yet they many superior qualities fibres. Moreover, spiders can tune their...
This document provides a framework for the value proposition of pediatric health care. It is intended to provide succinct set principles establishing this that demonstrates short- and long-term child family, care system, society as whole.
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...
<h3>Objectives</h3> To determine (1) patterns of secure vs insecure attachment relationships in infants adolescent and nonadolescent mothers (2) if these are mediated by parenting characteristics, including depression, self-esteem, stress, child abuse potential, psychological distress, rating infant temperament, the caregiving environment. <h3>Participants</h3> Fifty-one their 18-month-old were compared with 76 infants. <h3>Main Outcome Measures</h3> Infant classifications assessed via...
A 12-hour fasting lipid profile was obtained from 88 otherwise healthy obese (BMI > or = 95%) adolescents (age 16 +/- 1 years, BMI 36 kg/m(2), 55 males, 33 females, 57% Hispanic, 23% African American, 19% Caucasian, 1% Asian American). About 56% of the exhibited abnormalities based on cutoff points established by American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines, and about percentile values Lipid Research Clinic Pediatric Prevalence Study. Isolated low high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C)...