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childhood poverty
Management:
- create medical homes responsive to unique needs of poor families (including transportation issues)
- screen for social factors adversely affecting child health (including food insecurity)
- partner with community organizations to address families' unmet basic needs & stressors (incuding lack of food, unemployment)
- collaborate with early intervention programs, the Maternal, Infant, and Early Child Home Visiting Program, & programs that engage fathers
- address mental health needs of children & parents (including maternal depression screening at infant checkups)
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poverty
References
- Physician's First Watch, March 9, 2016
David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief
Massachusetts Medical Society
http://www.jwatch.org
- Poverty and Child Health in the United States
COUNCIL ON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS
Pediatrics Apr 2016
PMID: 26962238
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/recent
- Pascoe JM, Wood DL, Duffee JH et al
Mediators and Adverse Effects of Child Poverty in the United
States.
Pediatrics Apr 2016
PMID: 26962239
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/recent