Citation
Schickedanz, A., Szilagyi, P. G., & Dreyer, B. (2021). Child Poverty and Health in the United States: Introduction and Executive Summary. Academic Pediatrics, 21(8), S81–S85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2021.09.003

Summary
“Child Poverty and Health in the United States” is about how children are most vulnerable to poverty and which can be dangerous considering children’s health and growth. This article also explains the communities responsibility to future generations, how they should be protected from poverty. This article focuses on impoverished children in the United States, and one of the main points was “Clinical and Health System Responses to Poverty” this point examines pediatricians and their part in helping the impoverished by as stated in the text “More broadly in directly treating poverty itself, addressing its consequent social risks, and mitigating its adverse health impacts.” this shows that poverty is being taught and therefore people want to help and fix one of the biggest economic problems of the United States, which gets us onto the most important point about this article. There are “Leading clinicians, scholars, educators, economists, public health experts, policymakers, and community advocates” that are teaching others about poverty and the causes and effects of how being impoverished can be especially for children. Overall “Child Poverty and Health in the United States” written by Schickedanz, A., Szilagyi, P. G., & Dreyer, B is a good read especially when you want to know more about poverty and have your questions about it answered.

Reflection
The article “Child Poverty and Health in the United States” is a reliable and peer reviewed source that I agree with. I agree with this article because it brings up good points, for example 1 in 5 children live amongst the impoverished, and according to the text “No group is more vulnerable to falling into poverty in the United States than children, whose health and development are exquisitely sensitive to the adverse effects of being poor.” this quote shows how children are most vulnerable to poverty and how its a great risk for those who are already amongst them. In order to better understand this article I need to look up what these children face on their day to day lives. This author wrote a great credible source, and if I could tell him anything I would tell him that his examination on who is giving their attention to this issue the most is great because, not only are you giving them credit, but your sharing to others that there are people who care about poverty and want to see it fixed. This document tells me that children are most vulnerable amongst the impoverished.

Quotaions
– “The conditions of poverty are about much more than dollars and cents, or the simple lack thereof.”
– “The final section of the Supplement expands the frame to poverty reduction and child health promotion at the community level, where pediatricians have opportunities to play a greater role in cross-sector partnerships capable of improving population health and equity.”
– “It includes evidence on progress in our understanding of poverty’s prevalence and health risks, presents solutions to treat child poverty at various levels from policy to clinical practice, and approaches the topic of poverty from an intersectional lens, recognizing that poverty operates as a principal mechanism of structural racism and systematic social marginalization.”
– “Poverty cuts lives short and strips livelihoods bare.”