Health and Development Services for Children with Multiple Needs: The Child in Foster Care

1991; Yale Law School; Volume: 9; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

0740-8048

Autores

Neal Halfon, Linnea Klee,

Tópico(s)

Child and Adolescent Health

Resumo

Over the past century, child morbidity and mortality has decreased for most children in Western societies due to improved living conditions and advances in health services.1 Nevertheless, growing numbers of poor and disadvantaged children in the United States still do not enjoy even the most basic services like prenatal care and regular immunizations.2 While many of the infectious diseases that threatened all children earlier in the century have been eliminated among middle and upper class Americans, such diseases continue to affect the poor and underserved.3 Moreover, scholars and public health officials are now recognizing new morbidities such as developmental delays, school problems, emotional and behavioral problems, child abuse and neglect, intrauterine drug or alcohol exposure, and the effects of family disruption and violence.4 Unlike the uold morbidities, which have single biological origins amenable to

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