ESSAY ON CHILDREN ARE NATION'S FUTURE
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The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) work concerning children and youth is wide ranging. It encompasses such issues as finding better methods to assess and monitor health status; improving the nutrition for all, with special attention to vulnerable populations; developing strategies to reduce underage drinking; examining concerns about childhood vaccines; and improving children’s access to better drugs and safe medical devices.
Children’s health has improved considerably over the past several decades. Scientific and public health advances have reduced infant mortality and morbidity from infectious diseases and accidental causes, improved access to health care, and reduced the effects of lead and other environmental contaminants. Today’s health challenges result from the interactions of influences in children’s biological, behavioral, social, and physical environments. The interventions needed are therefore complex and multifaceted. Protecting and promoting health now requires considering the overall context in which children live, in addition to identifying and treating specific diseases or injuries.
First-order questions concern how to define children’s health, how to monitor influences that affect health outcomes, and how to apply appropriate measurement tools. Children’s Health, the Nation’s Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health (2004) offers a new framework for measuring the health of children from birth through age 18 and provides a foundation on which to build a comprehensive children’s health measurement system. One practical value of this type of measurement system will be improved ability to target scarce resources to assure that investments make the maximum contribution to improving child health.
Protecting and promoting health now requires considering the overall context in which children live, in addition to identifying and treating specific diseases or injuries.
The new approach assesses dynamic interactions over time, and portrays their effects on health throughout different stages of childhood. The report’s recommendations call on the federal government to set monitoring children’s health as a national priority, and to designate a specific unit within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to take the lead in coordinating agency efforts to standardize, coordinate, and develop new data on
Children’s health has improved considerably over the past several decades. Scientific and public health advances have reduced infant mortality and morbidity from infectious diseases and accidental causes, improved access to health care, and reduced the effects of lead and other environmental contaminants. Today’s health challenges result from the interactions of influences in children’s biological, behavioral, social, and physical environments. The interventions needed are therefore complex and multifaceted. Protecting and promoting health now requires considering the overall context in which children live, in addition to identifying and treating specific diseases or injuries.
First-order questions concern how to define children’s health, how to monitor influences that affect health outcomes, and how to apply appropriate measurement tools. Children’s Health, the Nation’s Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health (2004) offers a new framework for measuring the health of children from birth through age 18 and provides a foundation on which to build a comprehensive children’s health measurement system. One practical value of this type of measurement system will be improved ability to target scarce resources to assure that investments make the maximum contribution to improving child health.
Protecting and promoting health now requires considering the overall context in which children live, in addition to identifying and treating specific diseases or injuries.
The new approach assesses dynamic interactions over time, and portrays their effects on health throughout different stages of childhood. The report’s recommendations call on the federal government to set monitoring children’s health as a national priority, and to designate a specific unit within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to take the lead in coordinating agency efforts to standardize, coordinate, and develop new data on
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