| Autor: |
Nord, Christine Winquist, Zill, Nicholas, Prince, Cynthia, Clarke, Sally, Ventura, Stephanie |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
1994 |
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| Popis: |
The goal of the work described in this report was to develop a new child health index that could be reported annually by the National Education Goals Panel for each of the 50 states, as well as for local areas. This index would serve as an indicator of health conditions at birth that relate to children's readiness to learn upon school entry. The new standard birth certificate adopted by nearly all states in 1989 contains more than a dozen items of information that are potentially useful for this purpose. The availability of these data make it possible to sum across the individual health factors to form a composite index made up of factors with demonstrated relevance to later educational performance for all children born in a given year in a given geographical area. In this paper, we describe the development of such an index. Our index consisted of six risk factors: late (third trimester) or no prenatal care, low maternal weight gain ( |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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