The federal government has supported and provided services from health care to poverty alleviation and enforced a wide range of laws and regulations to enhance the well-being of Americans under age 21. The recor
1 The alarming rates of physical, mental, and social health inequities (including poverty) experienced by AI/AN children are symptoms of settler colonialism, a legacy of structural racism embodied in Federal Indian policy, and ongoing structural violence. While both biological and social factors lead...
A summary of the effects of socioeconomic status, showing all health care professionals the daunting task they have in tackling poverty. The sister profession of public health continues to provide dental hygienists with opportunities for professional growth and information regarding the behaviors associate...
Medscape: The United States has the highest healthcare costs in the world, according to a 2014 study by the Commonwealth Fund.[3]Yet the Save the Children report found that across the world, low-cost initiatives—access to care, clean water, nutrition, vaccinations—were among the most effec...
Finally, constraints on healthcare accessibility, availability, and quality further increase air pollution-related mortality among low-income groups9,21. Substantial evidence from the United States illustrates how socioeconomic marginalization can increase people’s exposure and vulnerability to air pollution...
health justiceraceracial justicediscriminationemploymentPast infectious disease epidemics in the United States and governmental responses to them made it highly predictable that people living in poverty, people of color, and people with disabilities would bear the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic due to ...
(2012). Two generations, one future: Moving parents and children beyond poverty together. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute. Google Scholar Azzi-Lessing, L. (2010). Meeting the mental health needs of poor and vulnerable children in early care and education programs. Early Childhood Research & ...
The health of people with low incomes historically has been a driver of public health advances in the United States. For example, in New York City, cholera deaths during outbreaks in 1832 and 1854 concentrated among the poor helped push forward the Metropolitan Health Law, which allowed for ...
The Department of Health and Human Services calculates the federal poverty guidelines based on the United States Census Bureau's poverty thresholds released in the previous year. The government determines the poverty threshold based on a family's total income. If total household income is less than...
A woman's degree of education is linked to the age at which she marries and has children, to her health and diseases. Educating girls and women can end poverty in developing nations, as well as in the United States.The United States hasn't raised the lowest pay since 2007. Because of ...