Exploring Early Childhood Care and Education Levers to Improve Population Health Proceedings of a Workshop (2019) / Chapter Skim
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as a critical period in human development and an important opportunity for educational and related interventions. In addition to the 2015 publication, workshop background materials provided to all participants included the report Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation (IOM and NRC, 2015)
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By weaving health promotion, preventive care, health literacy, and health care coordination into early care and education environments and making it easier for both health care providers and early care and education pro viders to coordinate and cooperate through policy levers, we can change the health status of entire geographies of children, Chang said. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES As one of its major activities, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement sponsors workshops for its members, stakeholders, and the public to discuss issues of importance for improving the nation's health, 2 Kindig and Stoddart (2003)
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This vision rests on the recognition that outcomes such as improved life expectancy, quality of life, and health for all are shaped by interdependent social, economic, environmental, genetic, behavioral, and health care factors, and will require robust national and community-based policies and dependable resources to achieve. The agenda for this workshop was developed by an independent planning committee that included Debbie Chang, Marquita Davis, Jennifer Frey, Jacqueline Jones, Paula Lantz, Phyllis Meadows, Larry Pasti, Morton Swartz, and Valora Washington.
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. The appendixes to the proceedings include an overview of the input shared in individual participant comments during the gallery walk interactive portions of the workshop and a compendium of links and citations pertaining to the many programs described or mentioned by the day's presenters.
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