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Focusing on Children's Health: Community Approaches to Addressing Health Disparities

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In early 2007, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Acad- emies convened the Roundtable on Health Disparities to increase the visibility of racial and ethnic health disparities as a national problem, further the development of programs and strategies to reduce disparities, and track promising activities and developments in health care that could lead to dramatically reducing or eliminating disparities. The Roundtable on Health Disparities includes representatives from the health professions, state and local government, foundations, philanthropy, academia, advocacy groups, and community-based organizations. Its mission is to facilitate communication across sectors and—above all—to generate action. Through national and local activities, the Roundtable strives to advance the goal of eliminating health disparities. On January 24, 2008, the Roundtable on Health Disparities, in col- laboration with the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Research Council and the IOM, held a workshop at the Morehouse School of Medicine’s Louis W. Sullivan National Center for Primary Care Audi- torium in Atlanta, Georgia. The Roundtable brought together a diverse group of experts from a variety of fields to discuss the relationship between socioeconomic conditions early in life and later health outcomes. Life course epidemiology has added a further dimension to our understanding of the social determinants of health by showing an association between early socioeconomic conditions and adult health related behaviors as well as adult morbidity and mortality. Realizing that the foundations of adult health and adult health behaviors are laid prenatally and early in child- hood, the Roundtable’s workshop focused on (1) describing the evidence

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: ., 2009

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1-133

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English

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978-0-309-13785-0

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Focusing on Children's Health: Community Approache

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