US children’s health endangered

This video from the USA says about itself:

Mar 8, 2012

There are severe gaps in the quality of medical care American children receive due to health disparities that often occur across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. Dr. Lindia Willies-Jacobo, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Assistant Dean for Diversity and Community Partnerships at UCSD, explains the most common disparities in children including strategies that can be employed to eliminate them. Series: “LeNoir – NMA Pediatric Lecture Series” [3/2012] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 23404]

More than half of all US children will suffer from chronic health conditions during their childhood, a marked increase over the past two decades, a new study shows: here.

A new report from the federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that between 2014 and 2015 life expectancy fell in the US, the first time this has happened since 1993, at the height of the AIDS epidemic: here.

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