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Global Child Health: A Toolkit to Address Health Disparities
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Edition:
- 1st Ed.
- Author:
- Subrahmanian, Krishnan; Swamy, Padma
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- ISBN:
- 978-3-31-975135-1
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 99
- Doody Core Title Score:
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This timely resource brings child health to the forefront of global health and the crucial goal of universal equity of care.
Its resource-based framework offers contemporary perspective on factors driving child health disparities, specific vulnerabilities of underserved children, and ways readers can become effective advocates for children. The book critiques current child health policy worldwide, examining both policies that are helping to alleviate and are contributing to further inequities. And the authors provide an extensive toolkit to aid professionals in multidimensional screening for child, newborn, maternal, and post-natal health as well as socioeconomic determinants of health.
Included in the coverage:
· What is global health?
· The current state of global child health and disparities
· Global health disparities in high-resource settings
· Pathologies disproportionally affecting the underserved
· Policy and advocacy framework
· Navigating the domestic resources (an advocate’s well child check)
Global Child Health will find a ready au
Its resource-based framework offers contemporary perspective on factors driving child health disparities, specific vulnerabilities of underserved children, and ways readers can become effective advocates for children. The book critiques current child health policy worldwide, examining both policies that are helping to alleviate and are contributing to further inequities. And the authors provide an extensive toolkit to aid professionals in multidimensional screening for child, newborn, maternal, and post-natal health as well as socioeconomic determinants of health.
Included in the coverage:
· What is global health?
· The current state of global child health and disparities
· Global health disparities in high-resource settings
· Pathologies disproportionally affecting the underserved
· Policy and advocacy framework
· Navigating the domestic resources (an advocate’s well child check)
Global Child Health will find a ready au
Details
- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Subrahmanian, Krishnan; Swamy, Padma
- ISBN:
- 978-3-31-975135-1
- Specialty:
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- Medical Research
- Community Health & Disease Prevention
- History of Medicine/Science
- Pediatrics
- Medical Informatics & Library Science
- Epidemiology
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 1st Ed.
- Pages:
- 101
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 99
- Doody Core Title Score:
-
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