HARTMAN, MALCOLMLUKICH, ALENAMOK, JANICESREERAM, PADMAJAWilson, MichaelMeducator
The effect of poverty on the health of children is profound and enduring. Although the United States ranks seventh in per capita income among the world's industrial societies, at least one in five American children currently lives in a family whose income is below the federal poverty level. Th...
China poverty reduction policy (PRP) addresses two important elements: the targeted poverty reduction (TPA) project since 2015 in line with social assistance policy as national policy; and reducing inequality in health services utilization by making prov
Third, we use this conceptual framework to selectively review the growing literatures on the mechanisms through which family poverty influences the mental, emotional, and behavioral health of children. We illustrate how a better understanding of the mechanisms of effect by which poverty impacts children...
Some sexual minorities may receive community-based and charitable assistance through health, housing, and other service-based centers. More broadly, it is difficult to determine how much of our results can be attributed to the economic shocks of COVID-19 and their disproportionate impacts on sexual...
Prevalence of low birth weight among Hispanic infants with United States-born and foreign-born mothers: the effect of urban poverty. Although Hispanics are a poorly educated and medically underserved minority, the incidence of low birth weight (less than 2,500 g) Hispanic infants is simi... JW...
This represents a critical gap in the literature and an urgent national and global public health problem based on statistics that more than 1 in 5 children are now living below the poverty line in the United States alone.6The tangible effect of early environmental exposures on brain development ...
Poverty had the strongest effect on child health in both time periods. Conclusions. The association between children's health and living below 150% of the poverty index is not explained by race or family structure. The disparity in child health by family income has serious consequences for both...
Colizzi, M., Costa, R., & Todarello, O. (2014). Transsexual patients’ psychiatric comorbidity and positive effect of cross-sex hormonal treatment on mental health: Results from a longitudinal study.Psychoneuroendocrinology,39, 65–73.
We find that household income per capita positively influences the heights of children but, even after accounting for this, the number of children in the family still has a negative effect on height. This latter effect is closely associated with overcrowding and particularly with the degree of ...