Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents

495 Pages·2016·3.6 MB·English

by  Maya Rom Korin

Editor Maya Rom Korin
Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents
Editor
Maya Rom Korin
Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
New York, New York, USA
ISBN 978-1-4899-7709-0 e-ISBN 978-1-4899-7711-3
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-7711-3
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016939245
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Preface
Children are the most vulnerable members of society and are dependent on
adults for their well-being. Communities, schools, parents, government, and
various institutions strive to protect our children and provide them the
environment and tools necessary to grow into healthy adults. The well-being of
children determines the health of the next generation. Indeed, many of society’s
most severe health and social problems are caused by issues that develop during
childhood and adolescence. As Healthy People 2020 points out, professionals in
policy, research, and clinical practice fields are cognizant that childhood
provides the physical, cognitive, and social-emotional foundation for lifelong,
health, learning, and well-being, and thus health promotion strategies need to be
well researched, executed, and assessed. Even from an economic perspective,
investment in childhood health promotion pays off greatly.
Health promotion for children and adolescents involves a range of academic
disciplines and fields in order to be successful. And thus, this book is for readers
of all kinds—professionals and students in public health, public policy,
education, social work, medicine and health care, and of course parents and
children themselves. This book aims to bridge the gap between what is discussed
in theory and academia and what health promotion programs are working on the
ground.
This book presents the latest findings on the most effective methods for
health promotion for children. Theory driven, the chapters highlight a
multifaceted approach to health promotion, incorporating community, families,
schools, and policies. Rather than using the same framework and applying it to
different problems, each author presented in the book relies on different
prevention and health behavior models in order to best understand the issue at
hand and address the problem from a multitude of perspectives. Throughout the
book, various solutions will be given using evidence-based principles to plan,
implement, and evaluate community health programs that target health problems
of children and adolescents. While this book was written with a US focus, the
theories and approaches that are addressed are universal in nature and can easily
be translated to many countries and settings.
Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents begins with an overview of
health promotion theories and models in order to orient and familiarize the
reader with the different theoretical approaches or tools available in conducting
health promotion. The book then has two chapters that discuss the role that
socioeconomics, poverty, and culture play in providing the context in which
health promotion for children occurs. Part III of the book will focus on
psychological wellness in children and adolescents, with Chap. 5 describing
what stress and resiliency look like in children, Chap. 6 exploring recent
developments in child mental health, Chap. 7 discussing youth suicide, and
Chap. 8 highlighting health-related concerns among children with ADD/ADHD.
Social and behavioral wellness will be the focus of Part IV. Sexual behavior,
sexuality, and gender issues will be discussed in Chaps. 9 and 10 , highlighting
the latest research findings and debates. Chapter 11 will focus on the latest
research findings in the field of alcohol, tobacco, and drug use prevention for
children, while violence and aggressive behavior are covered in Chap. 12 .
While childhood obesity is all over news headiness these days (Chap. 13 ), it is
unhealthy eating habits that are the root cause of both obesity and eating
disorders (Chap. 14 ), which Chap. 15 will thoroughly address. As number of
children with chronic illnesses has been increasing, Chap. 16 will cover how
dealing with these illnesses is of particular challenge among children. The need
for confidentiality in health services for children will appropriately follow in
Chap. 17 , with a look at the ethical and legal issues involved in having children
be more autonomous in their health care. Chapter 18 will focus on child abuse
and the foster care system.
This book was a project that could not have been completed without the hard
work of so many people. Each contributing author put in time, effort, and hard
work for which I am so grateful given everyone’s very busy schedule and
competing interests. The authors that took part in this book are some of the top
scholars in the field of health promotion for children and adolescents and have
been instrumental in conducting both research and programmatic efforts in their
area of interest. I am appreciative of their commitment to this book and the high-
quality chapters that are presented within. I would also like to thank my editors
at Springer, Janet Kim and Khristine Queja, for their guidance, patience, and
support throughout each step of this project. A special thanks to my family,
especially my husband, Ittai, and my children, Benjamin and Gabriel, for their
endless support and love.
Maya Rom Korin New York, NY, USA
Contents
Part I The Foundation
1 Introduction: What Is Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents?
Maya Rom Korin
2 Theory and Fundamentals of Health Promotion for Children and
Adolescents
Maya Rom Korin
Part II Socioecological Approach to Child and Adolescent Health
3 Poverty and Child Health
Renée Wilson-Simmons
4 Impact of Family Structure, Functioning, Culture, and Family-Based
Interventions on Children’s Health
Karol L. Kumpfer, Cátia Magalhães and Sheetal A. Kanse
Part III Children and Adolescent Psychological Wellness
5 Childhood Stress and Resilience
Andrew J. Barnes
6 Child Mental Health: Recent Developments with Respect to Risk,
Resilience, and Interventions
Eliot Goldman, Joan Stamler, Kimberly Kleinman, Sarah Kerner and
Owen Lewis
7 Youth Suicide
Adam G. Horwitz, Kiel J. Opperman, Amanda Burnside, Neera Ghaziuddin
and Cheryl A. King
8 Health Concerns Regarding Children and Adolescents with Attention-
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Alexandria B. Fladhammer, Adrian R. Lyde, Adena B. Meyers,
Jeffrey K. Clark and Steven Landau
Part IV Social and Behavioral Wellness in Children and Adolescents
9 Preventing Risky Sexual Behavior in Adolescents
Eric R. Walsh-Buhi, Sarah B. Maness and Helen Mahony
10 Early Gender Development in Children and Links with Mental and
Physical Health
May Ling D. Halim, Danielle Bryant and Kenneth J. Zucker
11 Parameters of Preventing Substance Misuse in Adolescents
Steve Sussman, Yue Liao, Jennifer Tsai and Diana Fishbein
12 Violence Affecting Youth: Pervasive and Preventable
Larry Cohen, Rachel Davis and Anna Realini
Part V Dietary Health in Children and Adolescents
13 Pediatric and Adolescent Obesity
Stephenie Wallace and Bonnie A. Spear
14 Preventing Eating Disorders in Adolescents
Maribel Plasencia, Salomé A. Wilfred and Carolyn Black Becker
15 Partnering with Adolescents, Parents, Researchers, and Family Medicine
Clinics to Address Adolescent Weight and Weight-Related Behaviors
Jerica M. Berge, Katharine Didericksen, Michaela Bucchianeri,
Shailendra Prasad and Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
Part VI Children and Adolescents in the Health Care System
16 Wellness Promotion in Children with Chronic Physical Illness
Katharine Thomson and Simona Bujoreanu
17 Confidentiality in Adolescent Health Care
Carol A. Ford, Abigail English, Nadia Dowshen and Charles G. Rogers
18 Wellbeing of Children in the Foster Care System
Lindsey M. Weiler, Edward F. Garrido and Heather N. Taussig
Index

Part I
The Foundation
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1. Introduction: What Is Health Promotion
for Children and Adolescents?
Maya Rom Korin1
(1) Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai, New York, NY, USA

Maya Rom Korin Email: [email protected]
1.1 What Is Health?
The concept of health has been a contested topic among public health
practitioners. For many centuries, the notion of health was described as the
absence of disease. With the discovery of the germ theory in the nineteenth
century, the focus of public health in Western society was centered on the
concept of a single cause for every disease. As chronic and noninfectious
diseases started to increase in significance, it was clear that a multifactor model
of disease and health was required (Blair, Stewart-Brown, Waterston, &
Crowther, 2010a). The concept of human health shifted from that of a disease
model to that of a health model.
The WHO historically defined health as a state of “complete physical, social,
and mental well-being” and that its goal is “the attainment by all citizens of the
world…of a level of health that will permit them to lead socially and
economically productive lives (WHO Alma Ata 1977).” With the WHO’s
conceptualization of health as a human right also came the assertion that all
people should have access to basic resources for health. It also emphasized that
there were certain prerequisites for health, such as peace, economic resources,
food, shelter, and a stable ecosystem. In addition to the WHO’s definition,
optimal health has also been explained as the “dynamic balance of physical,