Children And Youth In Sickness And In Health

Author : Janet Golden,Richard Meckel,Heather Munro Prescott
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313330414

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Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health by Janet Golden,Richard Meckel,Heather Munro Prescott Pdf

Six original essays reflect the growing scholarly interest in the history of childhood and youth, particularly issues affecting child health and welfare. These important new essays show how changing patterns of health and disease have responded to and shaped notions of childhood and adolescence as life stages. Until the early 20th century, life-threatening illnesses were a sinister presence in the lives of children of all social classes. Today, many diseases and threats to child health have been eliminated or alleviated. Yet critical problems remain. New threats such as AIDS and violence take a steady toll. Child health remains an active concern for all families. Despite the development of health care policies, social welfare policies, and effective medication, the home remains—as it was in the Colonial period—the most critical site of care. Parents are still central to the preservation of children's health. This work imposes a holistic view of this experience for children and families. By examining the child's perspective of illness, the authors make an important contribution to the understanding of illness as part of the developmental process of growing up.

Author : Janet Golden,Richard Meckel,Heather Munro Prescott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313053009

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Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health by Janet Golden,Richard Meckel,Heather Munro Prescott Pdf

Six original essays reflect the growing scholarly interest in the history of childhood and youth, particularly issues affecting child health and welfare. These important new essays show how changing patterns of health and disease have responded to and shaped notions of childhood and adolescence as life stages. Until the early 20th century, life-threatening illnesses were a sinister presence in the lives of children of all social classes. Today, many diseases and threats to child health have been eliminated or alleviated. Yet critical problems remain. New threats such as AIDS and violence take a steady toll. Child health remains an active concern for all families. Despite the development of health care policies, social welfare policies, and effective medication, the home remains—as it was in the Colonial period—the most critical site of care. Parents are still central to the preservation of children's health. This work imposes a holistic view of this experience for children and families. By examining the child's perspective of illness, the authors make an important contribution to the understanding of illness as part of the developmental process of growing up.

Author : Institute of Medicine,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309166607

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Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth by Institute of Medicine,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health Pdf

Children's health has clearly improved over the past several decades. Significant and positive gains have been made in lowering rates of infant mortality and morbidity from infectious diseases and accidental causes, improved access to health care, and reduction in the effects of environmental contaminants such as lead. Yet major questions still remain about how to assess the status of children's health, what factors should be monitored, and the appropriate measurement tools that should be used. Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health provides a detailed examination of the information about children's health that is needed to help policy makers and program providers at the federal, state, and local levels. In order to improve children's health-and, thus, the health of future generations-it is critical to have data that can be used to assess both current conditions and possible future threats to children's health. This compelling book describes what is known about the health of children and what is needed to expand the knowledge. By strategically improving the health of children, we ensure healthier future generations to come.

Author : Hannah Newton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199650491

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The Sick Child in Early Modern England, 1580-1720 by Hannah Newton Pdf

Illness in childhood was common in early modern England. Hannah Newton asks how sick children were perceived and treated by doctors and laypeople, examines the family's experience, and takes the original perspective of sick children themselves. She provides rare and intimate insights into the experiences of sickness, pain, and death.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648749428

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Birdie and the Big Sickness by Anonim Pdf

Birdie's friends are all sick, but doctors and nurses are there to help. A story for young children about illness in the community.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : National health insurance
ISBN : PSU:000023041400

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National Health Insurance by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf

Author : Carl G. Leo-Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436803632

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Child in Health and Illness (1917) by Carl G. Leo-Wolf Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Cynthia Comacchio,Janet Golden,George Weisz
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780773577671

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Healing the World's Children by Cynthia Comacchio,Janet Golden,George Weisz Pdf

Essays range from historical overviews and historiographic surveys of children's health in various regions of the world, to disability and affliction narratives - from polio in North American to AIDS orphans in post-Apartheid South Africa - to interpretations of artistic renderings of sick children that tell us much about medicine, family, and society at specific times in history.

Author : Frank J. Sileo,Carol S. Potter
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1433833816

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When Your Child Has a Chronic Medical Illness by Frank J. Sileo,Carol S. Potter Pdf

Written by leading mental health professionals, this warm and accessible parenting book for children with chronic illnesses offers clear, practical guidance for all aspects of the journey. When you're focused on ensuring your child gets the best possible treatments for their symptoms, it's easy to overlook or dismiss the impact the illness can have on your relationships and emotions. This book places your psychological well-being front and center, so you can be the best caregiver possible for your child.

Author : Institute of Medicine and National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Committee on Children, Health Insurance, and Access to Care
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-10-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309173933

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America's Children by Institute of Medicine and National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Committee on Children, Health Insurance, and Access to Care Pdf

America's Children is a comprehensive, easy-to-read analysis of the relationship between health insurance and access to care. The book addresses three broad questions: How is children's health care currently financed? Does insurance equal access to care? How should the nation address the health needs of this vulnerable population? America's Children explores the changing role of Medicaid under managed care; state-initiated and private sector children's insurance programs; specific effects of insurance status on the care children receive; and the impact of chronic medical conditions and special health care needs. It also examines the status of "safety net" health providers, including community health centers, children's hospitals, school-based health centers, and others and reviews the changing patterns of coverage and tax policy options to increase coverage of private-sector, employer-based health insurance. In response to growing public concerns about uninsured children, last year Congress voted to provide $24 billion over five years for new state insurance initiatives. This volume will serve as a primer for concerned federal policymakers and regulators, state agency officials, health plan decisionmakers, health care providers, children's health advocates, and researchers.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Health Literacy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309681322

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Developing Health Literacy Skills in Children and Youth by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Health Literacy Pdf

Young people develop health literacy skills in a variety of environments, facing critical thinking challenges about their health from school, home and family life, peers and social life, and online. To explore the development of health literacy skills in youth, the Roundtable on Health Literacy convened a workshop on November 19, 2019, in Washington, DC. Presenters at the workshop discussed factors relating to health literacy skills and ways to further develop those skills among youth from early childhood to young adulthood. This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.

Author : David Wright,The Hospital for Sick Kids
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781442667570

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SickKids by David Wright,The Hospital for Sick Kids Pdf

Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children is the most famous medical institution in Canada. In addition to being the largest pediatric centre in North America, it has earned an international reputation for clinical care and research that has influenced generations of health care practitioners across the country and around the world. In a very real sense, hospital staff have touched the lives of tens of thousands of children and their families. SickKids has an equally remarkable history - from its humble origins in rented houses in Victorian Toronto, the Hospital would flourish to become an influential paediatric institution, pioneering Pasteurization, the Iron Lung for Polio, Pablum, the Mustard Procedure for 'Blue Babies', and the discovery of the gene for Cystic Fibrosis. It would also be the site of two of most famous medical controversies in modern Canadian history -- the suspected murder of two dozen babies in the early 1980s and, more recently, the whistle-blowing controversy involving the research scientist, Nancy Olivieri. David Wright’s History of The Hospital for Sick Children chronicles this remarkable history of the SickKids, including its triumphs and tragedies, its discoveries and dead-ends. In doing so, Wright has crafted a compelling and accessible history of SickKids that anchors Toronto's children's hospital within the broader changes affecting Canadian society and medical practice over the last century.

Author : Bernard Schissel
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552669402

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About Canada: Children & Youth by Bernard Schissel Pdf

Canada is a signatory on the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which guarantees the protection and care of children and youth. About Canada: Children and Youth examines each of the rights within the Canadian context – and finds Canada wanting. Schissel argues that although our expressed desire is to protect and care for our children, the reality is that young people, in Canada and around the world, often lack basic human rights. The lives of young people are steeped in abuse from the education and justice systems, exploitation by corporations, ill health and poverty. And while the hearts of Canadians go out to youth in distant countries suffering under oppressive circumstances, those same hearts often have little sympathy for the suffering of youth, particularly disadvantaged youth, within Canada. This book explores our contradictory views and argues that we must do more to ensure that the rights of the child are upheld.

Author : Donald T. Wigle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199748888

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Child Health and the Environment by Donald T. Wigle Pdf

This is the first textbook to focus on environmental threats to child health. It will interest professionals and graduate students in public health, pediatrics, environmental health, epidemiology, and toxicology. The first three chapters provide overviews of key children's environmental health issues as well as the role of environmental epidemiology and risk assessment in child health protection. Overarching themes are the susceptibility of the rapidly developing fetus and infant to environmental toxicants, the importance of modifying factors(e.g. poverty, genetic traits, nutrition), the role of health outcome and exposure monitoring, uncertainties surrounding environmental exposure limits, and the importance of timely intervention. Later chapters address the health effects of metals, PCBs, dioxins, pesticides, hormonally active agents, radiation, indoor and outdoor air pollution, and water contaminants. In analyzing potential environmental hazards, the author addresses both biologic and epidemiologic evidence, including the likelihood of causal relationships. Among the health outcomes he discusses are developmental, reproductive, and neurobehavioral effects, respiratory disease, cancer, and waterborne infectious diseases. These discussions cover environmental exposure sources/indicators, interventions, and standards, and conclude with a summary of calls for an improved science base to guide public health decisions and protect child health.

Author : Paul Nash,Sally Nash,Kathryn Darby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Healing
ISBN : 1849053898

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Spiritual Care with Sick Children and Young People by Paul Nash,Sally Nash,Kathryn Darby Pdf

Exploring both principles and best practice of the spiritual care of sick children and young people, the authors equip the reader to think critically and creatively about how to provide care in hospitals, hospices and other care contexts for ill and disabled children. They provide evidence-based practice principles, and a range of activity-based interactions that empower the child or young person and expand discussion of meaning and identity.