Mental Health
To Create a Better World for Children and Families: The Case for Ending Childhood Poverty
The Academic Pediatric Association (APA) is a great and unique organization. The best minds and hearts in pediatrics are our members. We are a family of teachers and scholars and advocates and healers presiding over academic pursuits, over the education and nurturing of our young, fertilizing the ground of the future of society. We have our eyes on protecting and supporting and improving the lot of the most vulnerable children and families. We do so many good things. We are open to all levels of diversity.Mental Health and Child Developmental Problems: The “Not-So-New Morbidity”
A series of articles in this issue of Academic Pediatrics deal with child and family mental health concerns and childhood developmental problems, raising questions about their burden for children and families, the role of the primary care pediatrician in screening, diagnosing, and managing these issues, and the inadequacies of the health care system to properly address these morbidities.1–6 These “not-so-new morbidities” are as problematic today as they were when first described as “the new morbidity” by Robert Haggerty and his colleagues in 1975.
