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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM |
| Session Number: 4100 |
| From Cell to Society: An Evidence-Based Approach To Address Social Determinants of Child Health and Development |
| PAS State of the Art Plenary |
| Vancouver Convention Centre ~ 301-305 |
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| Target Audience: General academic pediatricians, pediatric faculty, residents, and medical students interested in population health, social determinants of disease, and public policy efforts addressing child health disparities. |
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| Objectives:
- Describe the relevance of population-level studies of normative early child development to clinical practice and long-term physical and psychosocial child health[br]- Update practitioners and researchers about the population-level determinants of early child development and health[br]- Summarize current understanding of how early social experience influences human development at the biological level[br]- Contrast existing and future policy strategies for early childhood interventions in the US and Canada |
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| Chairs: Douglas Jutte, University of California, Berkeley, CA and Lisa Chamberlain, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA |
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| Early childhood development [ndash] physical, cognitive-language, social-emotional [ndash] alters a course, begun in utero or earlier, for health and disease across the lifespan. While at birth [lt]5% of children have discernable biological limitations, by school-age more than 25% are behind where they should be [ndash] in a socioeconomically-graded manner. This large risk is amenable to effective, evidence-based, early intervention. The Vancouver-based Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) is a unique example of a research network dedicated to addressing this challenge. HELP is population-based and broadly interdisciplinary, conducting research from a cellular to societal level that informs health and social policy. This session will use the broad range of HELP[apos]s work to illustrate how academic pediatric research can be organized to address social determinants and make positive, broad-based improvements to early childhood well-being. This session will conclude with a review of how this approach presents an opportunity and challenge to the American model of child health inequity research. |
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Overview
Lisa J. Chamberlain
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA |
| 8:00 AM - |
Overview
Douglas Jutte
University of California, Berkeley, CA |
| 8:05 AM - |
Where Are We Now: Measuring and Interpreting Early Childhood Health and Development across a Population
Clyde Hertzman
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| 8:20 AM - |
The Cellular Level: How Early Experience Gets under the Skin To Influence Health and Disease
W. Thomas Boyce
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC |
| 8:35 AM - |
The Role of Resilience: Identifying and Learning from Communities Where Early Child Development Outcomes Exceed the Expected
Paul Kershaw
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| 8:50 AM - |
Clinical Lessons: How Population-Based Studies of Early Childhood Vulnerability Can Inform Clinical Care
Tim F. Oberlander
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| 9:05 AM - |
The Societal Level: Using Population-Based Data To Inform Policy and Improve Community Development for Early Childhood Health
Lori Irwin
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| 9:20 AM - |
Lessons for the United States: Next Steps for an American Evidence-Based Approach to Reducing Childhood Health Disparities
Neal Halfon
University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
| 9:35 AM - |
Discussion
Discussion
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