Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.
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Related Stress has become more commonplace and accepted in our everyday lives. Many studies show the negativ... SONIA J. LUPIEN Physicians must be free to make clinical determinations, in accordance with medical standards of car... MARIA CANTWELL We must screen for and treat psychological distress because it can translate into better physical he... JOSHUA THORPE Why do we need to support the food stamp program? Because low-income families experience unemploymen... DONNA BRAZILE Failing to provide children adequate access to nutritious food not only endangers their emotional, p... JANE BROWN Due to the aging population in the U.S. and the gradual change in the healthcare service model from ... HARRY WANG This agency is located in a low-income area in Texarkana, Arkansas, and provides day care for childr... DON CAPSHAW We are preparing to address the health care needs of the people here. There are people who have perh... KIRK WILLIAMS the seriousness of emotional deprivation: It is not difficult to understand how children ... MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has dem... ATUL GAWANDE We're getting too old to care for them at home and it's something we couldn't do anyway because of t... GARY LATHAM I see taking care of my emotional and mental health in the same way that I see taking care of a garm... GINA BARRECA I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or... THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH ... stress hormones are meant to give us the strength and endurance to respond to extraordinary cond... BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business ... MICHAEL BURGESS They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their chi... ANN RICHARDS We take any child that has at least a history of violence and mental health needs and can't be taken... HENRY GARDNER Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of ... MIKE ROUNDS Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress ... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN It has information on all kinds of emotional and mental health issues that kids face today, and it d... GREG KILLIAN Childhood trauma can range from having faces extreme violence and neglect to having confronted feeli... ARIELLE SCHWARTZ We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or... JUDD GREGG While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suff... MICHAEL K. SIMPSON Many weight issues stem from illness, be it physical or, indeed, emotional. And a large portion of p... JAMEELA JAMIL The demographics long term are extremely promising. All the major industrialized nations are enterin... BOB HIGGINS Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibi... MIREILLE GUILIANO The antithesis of love is Fear, not anger. At the core of all persistent or long-term emotional suff... DONNA M THOMAS We benefited tremendously from the close working relationship we established with the physicians and... G. CAMERON DEEMER Many people do not realize the toll stress can have on their lives or that mental health is key to o... CYNTHIA WAINSCOTT Missouri could make huge strides by adopting a state version of the Federal False Claims Act. Millio... JENNIFER HILL Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone'... THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to the... ADRIENNE RICH Statewide studies have shown that children from low-income Hispanic and Asian populations in Califor... JANE WEINTRAUB Unfortunately, we have a growing shortage of psychiatrists, and many people find that their health i... DR. MARVIN SWARTZ Many of these children are going to have profound handicaps throughout their lives -- both physical ... LARRY GOSTIN Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are depend... JIM DEMINT They help with mental health issues like stress. As you know, we have a number of embassies that hav... LAURENCE G. BROWN Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and c... BLANCHE LINCOLN Not only is the actual word "hysteria" gendered — it once referred to an exclusively female diseas... SADY DOYLE Poor meal programs and poor nutrition underlie so many workplace issues: morale, safety, productivit... CHRISTOPHER WANJEK Our hope is that we will be able to work out some long-term issues for dealing with low-income assis... ANTHONY SWINGER Wright State University offers a unique asset to the community through its health professions school... GLENN HAMILTON This partnership is an absolute victory for health practitioners and will change the way they consum... BRIAN NAIRN If we can get people with arthritis over the initial pain barrier by addressing their pain and getti... JENNIFER HOOTMAN Third-party payers of medical bills, whether public or private, often collectivize health care and a... LORI ROMAN Young children are especially susceptible to problems, mainly because of their size. Elderly people ... FRED RAINWATER In Greenville, we really are studying the unmet needs of women, whether economic needs, educational,... PHYLLIS MARTIN I got emotional help and support from my wife and friends. But the physical help had to come from a ... GIL KLEIMAN The lasting physical and mental health effects of long term very high altitude exposure appear to be... STEVEN MAGEE It takes a fairly long period of time to get someone to normalize their eating and get them back to ... JODY RHOMBERG We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as H... MITCH DANIELS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Community support of our program is outstanding. We have an excellent Community Advisory Council of ... CLAUDIA CORBIN A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same qual... KATE MIDDLETON Many of them also have other issues including a lack of transportation. Parents may have to miss tim... LINDA WOLFE Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term ba... LIYA KEBEDE People need to be better shoppers for health care because more of their health care costs will be pa... MARIBETH SHANNON Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost th... DIANE ABBOTT In Korea, there are many people who keep their family dogs in their garden, neglecting their physica... YOON KERR Portfolio managers often find that their portfolios have a level of realized risk, or realized activ... DR. SEBASTIAN CERIA He declares his support for Bradley based on his commitment to health care for children, curbing gun... BILL BRADLEY Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbo... SAMANTHA POWER And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affo... TIM RYAN It's bad enough to have to come to work and stress out over heavy work loads without going home to s... ANGELA GREEN Many, if not most, organizations now view consultative selling as the baseline, regardless of their ... SHARON DANIELS We are pleased with this partnership and how it will support our goal of improving the outcomes of p... BRIAN NAIRN If it were as easy as telling parents to have their children eat healthier and exercise more, I don'... DR. JULIE LUMENG Those who all talk about big emotional or caring issues are really all sensitive to all or many are ... ANUJ SOMANY My contention is that if we expand the patient-centered health care approach, we'll have less pe... TIM WALBERG Our efforts must ensure that we meet the families' immediate survival needs without necessarily comp... CHANGU MANNATHOKO Domestic violence is just as much a quality-of-life and liberty for community, social, and legal att... TRACEY BOND It's absolutely a low-income and minority problem. We saw a lot of disease in high-income people too... WYNNE GROSSMAN As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, me... JEFFREY KLUGER They're crossing their fingers because disposable income is so low. They must be more creative and f... JAMES DETORRE These ratings are clear evidence of the positive affect we are having on the health of our members. ... JOSH BENNETT The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising... JIM RYUN The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our ... ELLEN GUSTAFSON These nurses shored up a health care system that was in disarray. Many patients they treated had med... DEBORAH BURGER Many people make their way through life acting as though they are ‘alone.’ They never progress b... SUSAN BARBARA APOLLON It has the potential to help lower both short-term and long-term health costs. HELEN DARLING The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but ar... LUNDY BANCROFT Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, ps... DIRK BENEDICT Toxicity causes nutritional deprivation - and your body then craves more and more food, trying to ge... SUZANNE SOMERS Both drugs lower the risk of developing breast cancer by 50%. DR. LORA WEISELBERG We were addressing many of the issues as they were looking at the same issues. CINDY SMITH After a decade of working in high altitude astronomy the medical profession discovered that I had a ... STEVEN MAGEE Rather than focus resources on the state's most pressing needs or helping parents of low-income fami... LARRY MCCARTHY There is a deep connection, when we're talking about certain market forces and a legal structure... MATTHEW DESMOND Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk f... HANK JOHNSON Someone in their 80s, like Mrs. Mack, could not possibly take on the physical, much less the emotion... DENISE CHETTA Where I live, many children are out of school because of diseases they catch from their drinking wat... DOLLY AKHTER Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Through substance abuse treatment we address a profound crisis in America, reducing the associated c... BARRY MCCAFFREY This is all geared toward addressing some of their concerns, or as many as we thought we could. DERRICK RADKE Workers at Caterpillar made the company into the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mi... ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making ... BLANCHE LINCOLN These are people who felt trapped in a bad marriage or onerous care-giving duties and widowhood offe... DEBORAH CARR One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades an... ANTOINE LAVOISIER Neither side, and I have said this all along, wants to go through the horror of revisiting this issu... GEORGE PARNHAM The problem is that most male adolescents don't have discussions about reproductive health-care issu... CYNTHIA ROSENGARD
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