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Suffer the child : how the healthcare system is failing our future / Lidia Wasowicz Pringle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pringle, Lidia Wasowicz.
- Series:
- Capital currents book
- Capital currents series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Health and hygiene--United States.
- Children.
- Child.
- Children--Health and hygiene.
- United States.
- Mental Disorders--drug therapy.
- Adolescent.
- Child Development--drug effects.
- Psychiatry--methods.
- Psychotropic Drugs--adverse effects.
- Medical Subjects:
- Child.
- United States.
- Mental Disorders--drug therapy.
- Adolescent.
- Child Development--drug effects.
- Psychiatry--methods.
- Psychotropic Drugs--adverse effects.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 434 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Sterling, Va. : Capital Books, [2007]
- Summary:
- Suffer the Child digs beneath the headlines to expose a health care system burdened with uncertainties and sagging with shortfalls that are shortchanging our children's health. For this book, veteran UPI investigative reporter Lidia Wasowicz Pringle interviewed more than 200 physicians, policymakers, parents, child advocates, educators, drug developers, public health, and medical specialists. Suffer the Child looks at the challenges affecting our children's health, from a failing health-care system to a new found epidemic of chronic conditions like autism and obesity. More importantly, it examines ways we can overcome them, as most of the experts agree that a massive multi-faceted campaign is called for. More than in any previous generation, today's parents must be proactive in protecting and promoting their child's health. This book is their comprehensive reference to the issues we face in caring for our children's health and the system we once trusted to help and heal them.
- Contents:
- Child health USA: the good, the bad, and the undetermined
- Tallying up the chronic illness tab
- Young minds under attack
- Attention on deficits
- A real downer
- Getting to the cause of illness
- Eye on autism: a backward glance
- Eye on autism: facing facts
- Eye on autism: looking forward
- What's in a label?
- Words from the wise
- Epilogue: three Cs for success.
- Notes:
- "A UPI Book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1933102217
- 9781933102214
- OCLC:
- 71139374
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