Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes

Young Motherhood and Child Outcomes

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Infant and Young Child Feeding: a Key area to Improve Child Health

  Good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. Poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. For millions of chi...

Weight maintenance from young adult weight predicts better health outcomes

OBJECTIVE Defining groups of individuals within a larger population with similar patterns of weight change over time may provide insight into influences of weight stability or gain. METHODS Latent class growth modeling was used to define subgroups of weight change in adult members of the Gila River Indian Community participating in at least four non-diabetic health exams including OGTTs (N = ...

How Does Incarcerating Young People Affect Their Adult Health Outcomes?

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Despite the widespread epidemic of mass incarceration in the US, relatively little literature exists examining the longitudinal relationship between youth incarceration and adult health outcomes. We sought to quantify the association of youth incarceration with subsequent adult health outcomes. METHODS We analyzed data from 14 344 adult participants in the National L...

Adult Antiretroviral Therapy and Child Health :