Childhood multiple risk factor exposure exceeds the adverse developmental impacts of
singular exposures. Multiple risk factor exposure may also explain why sociodemographic …

More than 6.5 million children in the United States, approximately 13% of all students, miss
15 or more days of school each year. The rates of chronic absenteeism vary between states …

Importance Social determinants of health shape both children's immediate health and their
lifetime risk for disease. Increasingly, pediatric health care organizations are intervening to …

Introduction Childhood adversity is an under-addressed dimension of primary prevention of
disease in children and adults. Evidence shows racial/ethnic and socioeconomic patterning …

OBJECTIVE: This large population-based study of US children considered the association of
obesity with a broad range of comorbidities. This study examined relationships between …

Background Early childhood caries (ECC) is the most common disease of childhood and
often is accompanied by serious comorbidities affecting children, their families, the …

By current estimates, at any given time, approximately 11% to 20% of children in the United
States have a behavioral or emotional disorder, as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical …

Objectives. We investigated the association between housing insecurity and the health of
very young children. Methods. Between 1998 and 2007, we interviewed 22 069 low-income …

BACKGROUND: There is growing interest in clinical screening for pediatric social
determinants of health, but little evidence on formats that maximize disclosure rates on a …

Since the early twentieth century, medical and public health innovations have led to
dramatic changes in the epidemiology of health conditions among infants, children, and …