The changing nature of children's health development: New challenges require major policy solutions

Health Affairs

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2116-2124

  Halfon, Neal ^a,b,c,d   Wise, Paul H ^e   Forrest, Christopher B ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UCLA Center for Healthier Children   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD REARING; CHILDHOOD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISABILITY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; JUSTICE; LEARNING DISORDER; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; OBESITY; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED STATES; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84916896378     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0944     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Wildeman C, Emanuel N, Leventhal JM, Putnam-Hornstein E, Waldfogel J, Lee H. The prevalence of confirmed maltreatment among US children, 2004 to 2011. JAMA Pediatr. 2014;168(8):706-13.
2. Blanchard LT, Gurka MJ, Blackman JA. Emotional, developmental, and behavioral health of American children and their families: a report from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health. Pediatrics. 2006; 117(6):e1202-12.
3. Isaacs JB. Starting school at a disadvantage: the school readiness of poor children. Washington (DC): Center on Children and Families at Brookings; 2012 Mar.
4. Quinn MM, Rutherford RB, Leone PE, Osher DM, Poirier JM. Youth with disabilities in juvenile corrections: a national survey. Except Child. 2005;71(3):339-45.
5. Cheely CA, Carpenter LA, Letourneau EJ, Nicholas JS, Charles J, King LB. The prevalence of youth with autism spectrum disorders in the criminal justice system. J Autism Dev Disord. 2012;42(9):1856-62.
6. Halfon N, Hochstein M. Life course health development: an integrated framework for developing health, policy, and research. Milbank Q. 2002;80(3):433-79.
7. Halfon N, Larson K, Lu M, Tullis E, Russ S. Lifecourse health development: past, present and future. Matern Child Health J. 2014;18(2): 344-65.
8. Hertzman C, Power C. Health and human development: understandings from life-course research. Dev Neuropsychol. 2003;24(2-3): 719-44.
9. Hertzman C, Boyce T. How experience gets under the skin to create gradients in developmental health. Annu Rev Public Health. 2010;31: 329-47. 3p following 347.
10. Ben-Shlomo Y, Kuh D. A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology: conceptual models, empirical challenges, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Int J Epidemiol. 2002; 31(2):285-93.
11. Gluckman PD, Hanson MA, Buklijas T. A conceptual framework for the developmental origins of health and disease. J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2010; 1(1):6-18.
12. Johnson SB, Riley AW, Granger DA, Riis J. The science of early life toxic stress for pediatric practice and advocacy. Pediatrics. 2013;131(2): 319-27.
13. Boyce WT, Sokolowski MB, Robinson GE. Toward a new biology of social adversity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012;109(Suppl 2):17143-8.
14. Ziol-Guest KM, Duncan GJ, Kalil A, Boyce WT. Early childhood poverty, immune-mediated disease processes, and adult productivity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012;109(Suppl 2): 17289-93.
15. Danese A, Moffitt TE, Harrington H, Milne BJ, Polanczyk G, Pariante CM, et al. Adverse childhood experiences and adult risk factors for age-related disease: depression, inflammation, and clustering of metabolic risk markers. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2009;163(12):1135-43.
16. Cole SW, Conti G, Arevalo JM, Ruggiero AM, Heckman JJ, Suomi SJ. Transcriptional modulation of the developing immune system by early life social adversity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012;109(50): 20578-83.
17. Conti G, Heckman JJ. The developmental approach to child and adult health. Pediatrics. 2013; 131(Suppl 2):S133-41.
18. Hart B, Risley Todd R. The early catastrophe: the 30 million word gap by age 3. Am Educ. 2003;Spring:4-9.
19. Petersen IT, Bates JE, Staples AD. The role of language ability and selfregulation in the development of inattentive-hyperactive behavior problems. Dev Psychopathol. 2014 Jul;1-17. [Epub ahead of print].
20. Mangione-Smith R, DeCristofaro AH, Setodji CM, Keesey J, Klein DJ, Adams JL, et al. The quality of ambulatory care delivered to children in the United States. N Engl J Med. 2007;357(15):1515-23.
21. Mehta NK, Lee H, Ylitalo KR. Child health in the United States: recent trends in racial/ethnic disparities. Soc Sci Med. 2013;95:6-15.
22. Van Cleve J, Gortmaker SL, Perrin JM. Dynamics of obesity and chronic health conditions among children and youth. JAMA. 2010;303(7): 623-30.
23. Merikangas KR, He JP, Burstein M, Swanson SA, Avenevoli S, Cui L, et al. Lifetime prevalence of mental disorders in US adolescents: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication-Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A). J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2010;49(10): 980-9.
24. Halfon N, Houtrow A, Larson K, Newacheck PW. The changing landscape of disability in childhood. Future Child. 2012;22(1):13-42.
25. Aber L, Morris P, Raver C. Children, families, and poverty: definitions, trends, emerging science, and implications for policy. Ann Arbor (MI): Society for Research in Child Development; 2012. (Social Policy Report, Volume 26, No. 3).
26. Bianchi SM. Changing families, changing workplaces. Future Child. 2011;21(2):15-36.
27. Milkie MA, Mattingly MJ, Nomaguchi KM, Bianchi SM, Robinson JP. The time squeeze: parental statuses and feelings about time with children. J Marriage Fam. 2004;66(3):739-61.
28. Kornrich S, Furstenberg F. Investing in children: changes in parental spending on children, 1972-2007. Demography. 2013;50(1):1-23.
29. Larson K, Halfon N. Family income gradients in the health and health care access of US children. Matern Child Health J. 2010;14(3):332-42.
30. Almond D, Currie J, Herrmann M. From infant to mother: early disease environment and future maternal health. Labour Econ. 2012;19(4): 475-83.
31. Currie J. Inequality at birth: some causes and consequences [Internet]. Cambridge (MA): National Bureau of Economic Research; 2011 Feb [cited 2014 Nov 7]. (Working Paper No. 16798). Available from: http://www .nber.org/papers/w16798.pdf
32. Campbell F, Conti G, Heckman JJ, Moon SH, Pinto R, Pungello E, et al. Early childhood investments substantially boost adult health. Science. 2014;343(6178):1478-85.
33. Grannis KS, Sawhill IV. Improving children's life chances: estimates from the Social Genome Model [Internet]. Washington (DC): Brookings Institution; 2013 Oct 11 [cited 2014 Oct 30]. Available from: http:// www.brookings.edu/research/ papers/2013/10/11-improvingchildrens- life-chances-sawhillgrannis
34. Manning M, Homel R, Smith C. A meta-analysis of the effects of early developmental prevention programs in at-risk populations on non-health outcomes in adolescence. Child Youth Serv Rev. 2010;32(4):506-19.
35. Adamson P, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. Child well-being in rich countries: a comparative overview [Internet]. Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre; 2013 [cited 2014 Oct 30]. Available from: http://ideas.repec.org/p/ucf/ inreca/inreca683.html
36. Healthy People.gov. About Healthy People [Internet]. Washington (DC): Department of Health and Human Services; [cited 2014 Nov 7]. Available from: https://www.healthy people.gov/2020/About-Healthy- People
37. Halfon N, DuPlessis H, Inkelas M. Transforming the US child health system. Health Aff (Millwood). 2007;26(2):315-30.
38. Wise PH. The rebirth of pediatrics. Pediatrics. 2009;123(1):413-6.
39. Halfon N, Long P, Chang DI, Hester J, Inkelas M, Rodgers A. Applying a 3.0 transformation framework to guide large-scale health system reform. Health Aff (Millwood). 2014;33(11):2003-11.
40. Guttmacher AE, Hirschfeld S, Collins FS. The National Children's Study-a proposed plan. N Engl J Med. 2013;369(20):1873-5.
41. Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health, Board on Children, Youth and Families, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Institute of Medicine. Children's health, the nation's wealth: assessing and improving child health [Internet]. Washington (DC): National Academies Press; 2004 [cited 2014 Oct 30]. Available from: http://www.nap.edu/openbook .php?isbn=0309091187
42. Forrest CB, Margolis P, Seid M, Colletti RB. PEDSnet: how a prototype pediatric learning health system is being expanded into a national network. Health Aff (Millwood). 2014;33(7):1171-7.
43. Preston SH. Children and the elderly: divergent paths for America's dependents. Demography. 1984; 21(4):435-57.
44. Ozawa M, Lee YS. Generational inequity in social spending: the United States in comparative perspective. Int Soc Work. 2013;56(2):162-79.