“Improving Population Health by Targeting Childhood Development.”

Abstract:

The learning gaps between groups of children that exist in too many communities today do not need to exist.  George Halvorson’s most recent book Three Key Years explains what parents, family, communities, and day care settings can all do to strengthen each child’s brain in those key months and years.  A top public health priority for our nation should be to teach that information to every single parent even before each child is born. 

High-income homes average 12 books per child. More than half of the lowest income homes — and more than half of the day cares for the lowest income children — do not have a single book. The higher income homes read to their children more than 1500 hours per child between birth and kindergarten. The lowest income homes read fewer than 30 hours to their children in those same years.  Roughly half of the Medicaid homes have no books and the children without books clearly do not benefit from daily reading — but 30 percent of the Medicaid mothers do have books and those mothers read every day to their children.

Understanding the science of child development will assist our society in reducing some of the health disparities that affect the health of our communities.

George C. Halvorson
Chair and CEO of the Institute for InterGroup Understanding
Retired Chair and CEO of Kaiser Permanente

Locations: 

Rochester
Kern Lecture Hall Gonda 8-104
1 – 2 p.m. CT

Arizona
Phoenix
Specialty Bldg 3-249
11 - Noon MT

Scottsdale
Mayo Clinic Bldg 1‑140E
11 - Noon MT

Florida
Davis 2-251N
2 - 3 p.m. ET

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