TOPIC: Social Determinants of Health, Mental Health, and Academic Achievements

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• Children and Poverty

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

General

• Basic Facts About Low-income Adolescents
• Children in Poverty: Trends, Consequences, and Policy Options
• Social Determinants Themes

Health

• Class- The Ignored Determinant of the Nation's Health
• Integrating Poverty and Gender into Health Programmes: A Source book for Health Professionals
• Major Risk and Protective Factors - Social Determinants of Health
• Social Determinants of Health
• Social Determinants of Health Information Sheet
• Social Determinants of Health: What, How, Why, and Now

Mental Health

• Determinants approaches to mental health promotion
• Social Determinants of Health: Mental Health-Fact Sheet
• Social determinants of mental health disparities among new mothers
• Social determinants of psychological distress

Academic Achievement

• An Education Strategy to Promote Opportunity, Prosperity & Growth
• Parsing the Achievement Gap Parsing the Achievement Gap

• The Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Center for the Future of Children
• Child Trends, Inc.
• The Child Welfare League of America
• Children's Defense Fund
• Children Now
• Free the Children
• The Institute for Children and Poverty
• Institute for Research on Poverty
• Kids Count
• The National Center for Children in Poverty

• Access to care for children of the working poor. By S. Guendelman ∓ M. Pearl. (2001). Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 155, 651-658.
• Achieving health Equity and Social Justice: Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being. Giles W.H., Liburd., (2007). Jossey-Bass.
• Community Interventions on social determinants of health: focusing the evidence. In Mc Queen D, Jones C, Global Perspectives on Health Promotion effectiveness. By: Metzler M, Amuyunzu-Nyamongo M, Mukhopadhy A, de Salazar L. (2007). New York (NY).
• Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies on Young Children: New Findings on Policy Experiments Conducted in the Early 1990s. Pamela A. Morris, Lisa A. Gennetian, and Greg J. Duncan. 2005. Social Policy Report 19, No. 2.
• For Love and Money? The Impact of Family Structure on Family Income. By Adam Thomas and Isabel Sawhill. Future of Children, 15, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 57-74.
• The Health of Nations: Why Inequality is Harmful to your Health. Kawachi I, and Kennedy B. (2002). New York: New Press.
• How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents: A Synthesis of Research. Lisa A. Gennetian, Greg J. Duncan, Virginia W. Knox, Wanda G. Vargas, Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman, Andrew S. London. 2002. New York: MDRC.
• Income and Health over the Life Course: Evidence and Policy Implications. Benzeval M., Dilnot A., Judge K., and Taylor J. (2001). Understanding Health Inequalities. 155,pp. 96-112. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press
• Income inequality and mortality in Metropolitan Areas of the United States.Lynch J.W., Kaplan G.A., Pamuk E.R., Cohen R., Heck C., Balfour J., et al (1998). American Journal of Public Health, 88, 1074-1080
• Inequalities in Health: Life Course Perspectives Davey Smith G. (2003). Bristol UK: Policy Press.
• The Limitations of Population Health as a model for a New Public Health. Raphael D., and Bryant T. 2002. Health Promotion International, 17. 189-199
• New Hope for Families and Children: Five-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare. By Aletha C. Huston and others. New York: MDRC, 2003; and an unpublished eight-year follow-up survey results from the New Hope evaluation
• The Political and Social Contexts of Health. Navarro V. (2004). Amityville New York: Baywood Press.
• Re framing School Dropout as a Public Health Issue. Freudenburg N, Ruglis J.(2007). Prev Chronic Dis, 4(4), 101-124.
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• Relative Contribution of Early Life and Adult Socioeconomic Factors to Adult Morbidity in the Whitehall II Study. Marmot M, Shipley, M., Brunner E., and Hemingway H. (2001). Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, (2001)55, 5.
• Social Determinants and their Unequal Distribution. By Graham H. (2004). Milbank Quarterly, 82(1), 101-124.
• Social Determinants of Health. Marmot M., and Wilkinson R. (2006). Oxford UK: Oxford University Press.
• Socioeconomic factors, Health behaviors, and mortality. Lantz P.M., House J.S, lepkowski J.M., Williams D.R., Mero R.P., and Chen J.J.(1998). Journal of the American Medical Association, 279(21), 1703-1708.
• Starting school healthy and ready to learn: using social indicators to improve achool readiness in Los Angeles.(2007). Prev Chronic Dis, 4(4), 101-124.
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• The States Role in Promoting population Health: Public Health Concerns in Canada, USA, UK, and Sweden. Raphael D., and Bryant T.(2006). Health Policy, 78, 39-55.
• Unequal Lives: Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities Graham H., (2007). New York Open Press.
• What if we were Equal? A comparison gap of the black-white mortality Gap in 1960 and 2000 Satcher D., Fryer GE., Mc Cann J., Troutman A., Woolf SH, Rust G. Health AFF (Milwood)2005. 24(2), 459-464
• Work over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law. By Ron Haskins. 2006. Brookings Institution Press.

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