Developmental Health and the Wealth of Nations: Social, Biological, and Educational Dynamics - Softcover

Clyde Hertzman, MD, FRCPC, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

I. Developmental Health 1. Modernity's Paradox, Keating and Hertzman 2. Population Health and Human Development, Hertzman 3. Health, Well-Being, and Coping Skills, Power and Hertzman 4. When Children's Social Development Fails, Tremblay 5. Quality and Inequality in Children's Literacy: The Effects of Families, Schools, and Communities, Willms 6. Are Socioeconomic Gradients for Children Similar to Those for Adults? Achievement and Health of Children in the United States, Brooks-Gunn, Duncan, and Rebello Britto 7. Socioeconomic Gradients in Mathematical Ability and Their Responsiveness to Intervention during Early Childhood, Case and Griffin II. Fundamental Processes: Biology and Development 8. Mechanisms of Brain Development: Sculpting by the Physical and Social Environment, Cynader and Frost 9. Developmental Trajectories, Early Experiences, and Community Consequences: Lessons from Studies with Rhesus Monkeys, Suomi 10. Psychosocial Processes and Psychneuroimmunology within a Lifespan Perspective, Coe 11. The Organization of Regulatory Systems from Infancy to Early Childhood: Habits of Mind in Competence and Coping, Keating and Miller III. Human Development and the Learning Society 12. The Learning Society: A Human Development Agenda, Keating 13. Social Software for a Learning Society: Relating School and Work, Rohlen 14. Schools as Knowledge-Building Organizations, Scardamalia and Bereiter IV. The Ecology of Child Development: Lessons for a Learning Society 15. Lowering the Burden of Suffering: Monitoring the Benefits of Clinical, Targeted, and Universal Approaches, Offord, Kraemer, Kazdin, Jensen, Harrington, and Gardner 16. The Community as a Participative Learning Environment: The Case of Centraide of Greater Montreal 1, 2, 3, GO Project, Bouchard 17. "It Takes a Village...", and New Roads to Get There, Pence 18. Developmental Health as the Wealth of Nations, Keating