Table of Contents
Table of Contents
I. INTRODUCTION
Poverty as a public health concern
Alexis Lieberman and Joav Merrick
II. DISPARITY
Chapter 1: African American children and youth in poverty;pp. 5-24
(Curren W Warf, Leslie F Clark, Denise C Herz and Susan J Rabinovitz)
Chapter 2: Asthma care and outcome;pp. 25-31
(Gary A Emmett and Amy C. Rothkopf)
Chapter 3:
Behavioral determinants related to pediatric overweight;pp. 33-48
(Lenna Ontai, Lorrene D Ritchie, Shannon T Williams,Tara Young and Marilyn S Townsend)
Chapter 4: Anemia among adolescent females;pp. 49-57
(Brian R Torcato, Louise M Lisi, Susan W Robbins, Tilak R. Baba,
Edna C Garcia and Jessica M Robbins)
Chapter 5: Low literacy in low-income adolescents;pp. 59-67
(Alexis Lieberman, Jennifer Cromley, Lauren Charles, Oscar Rodriguez,
Maria G Lopez-Marti, Srikant Das and Diego Moguillansky)
Chapter 6: Adolescent risk taking;pp. 69-77
(Kathleen Boyce Rodgers and Jenifer K McGuire)
III. INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS
Chapter 7: War, poverty and hopelessness in Bosnia-Herzegovina;pp.
81-101
(Mevludin Hasanovic, Edin Haracic, Šemsa Ahmetspahic,
Sanja Kurtovic and Hajrudin Haracic)
Chapter 8: Low income households in India;pp. 103-112
(Arup Mitra and Yuko Tsujita)
Chapter 9: Intentional and unintentional injuries in urban South Africa;pp. 113-127
(Stephanie Burrows, Lu-Anne Swart and Lucie Laflamme)
Chapter 10: Poverty in Israel. Trends 1998-2005/6;pp. 129-138
(Efrat Merrick-Kenig, Mohammed Morad, Isack Kandel and Joav Merrick)
IV. WHAT CAN WE DO?
Chapter 11: What pediatricians can do to make a difference;pp. 141-153
(Mario Cruz and Daniel Taylor)
Chapter 12: Obesity prevention efforts in low-income children;pp.
155-175
(Marilyn S Townsend, Lenna Ontai, Tara Young, Lorrene D Ritchie and
Shannon T Williams)
V. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Chapter 13:
About the editors
Chapter 14:
About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
VI. INDEX