Fwd: What matters more than income, race, gender or geography to a child's future health?

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Health, resilience

Dr. Michael D. McDonald

Coordinator
Global Health Response and Resilience Alliance

Chairman
Global Resilience Systems, Inc.

President
Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.

Michael.D.McDonald@mac.com
202-468-7899

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> From: Steven Locke <slockemd@verizon.net>
> Date: July 16, 2015 at 9:53:17 PM EDT
> To: Michael McDonald <michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com>
> Subject: Fwd: What matters more than income, race, gender or geography to a child's future health?
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>> From: "RWJF Publications" <publications@rwjfmail.org>
>> Subject: What matters more than income, race, gender or geography to a child's future health?
>> Date: July 16, 2015 at 8:01:08 PM EDT
>> To: <slockemd@verizon.net>
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>> Mike,
> You’ll like this, I think.
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>> Imagine: Eight simple questions that could foretell which children in a kindergarten classroom were on track to end up in prison or in college. Addicted or employed. Sick or well. A simple assessment of a child’s social competence skills in kindergarten can predict just that.
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>> A new 20-year study—funded by RWJF and published in the American Journal of Public Health—analyzed what happened to nearly 800 kindergarteners after their teachers measured their social competency skills in 1991. Reasearchers monitored these students and the positive and negative milestones each obtained until they turned 25.
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>> The study found that children who were more likely to “share” or “be helpful” in kindergarten were also more likely to obtain higher education and hold full time jobs nearly two decades later. Students who lacked these “social competence” skills were more likely to face more negative outcomes by the age of 25, including substance abuse problems, challenges finding employment or run-ins with the law.
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>> This latest study comes on the heels of a growing body of findings to draw the association between social emotional functioning in kindergarten and a spectrum of life outcomes such as crime, employment, and education.
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