Childhood Poverty
Poor children are at greater risk for worse health, less productivity, and harms to well-being that extend into adulthood and subsequent generations. Timing and duration of poverty matter and influence…
Overcoming Challenges to Childhood Immunizations Status
Vaccines are one of the greatest public health achievements, preventing both mortality and morbidity. However, overall immunization rates are still below the 90% target for Healthy People 2020. There remain…
Breastfeeding and the Affordable Care Act
Mothers who receive or qualify for the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program or have lower income are less likely to start and continue breastfeeding than their more advantaged counterparts….
Preventive Pediatrics Issues for Child Health Care Providers
Earnestine Willis, MD, MPH, Editor Preventive pediatrics has been defined as the prevention of diseases and the promotion of physical, mental, and social well-being for children to reach optimal growth…
Pediatric Prevention
Bonita F. Stanton, MD, Consulting Editor The goals of prevention in pediatrics and the mechanisms for achieving it are constantly evolving. Expectations for childhood outcomes have radically changed over time…
Current Options for the Treatment of Food Allergy
Food allergy is increasing in prevalence; as a result, there is intense focus on developing safe and effective therapies. Current methods of specific immunotherapy include oral, sublingual, and epicutaneous, while…
Mechanisms of Oral Tolerance
Oral tolerance is an active process of local and systemic immune unresponsiveness to orally ingested antigens such as food. The gut immune system must balance responses to commensal bacteria (microbiome),…
The Learning Early About Peanut Allergy Study
Observational studies have explored associations between timing of peanut, egg, and milk introduction and food allergy development, noting significant associations with reduced respective rates of milk, egg, and peanut allergy…
Breast Milk and Food Allergy
Breast milk, a living source of nutrition for babies, complements a baby’s immune system, supplementing undeveloped defenses with immune factors while creating the foundation for the innate and adaptive immune…
Gut Microbiome and the Development of Food Allergy and Allergic Disease
The impact of gut microbiome on human development, nutritional needs, and disease has become evident with advances in the ability to study these complex communities of microorganisms, and there is…
