Deborah Klein Walker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4454291 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Deborah Klein Walker |
| PRENOMES | Deborah Klein |
| SOBRENOME | Walker |
| ASSINATURA | WALKER D K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Abt Global (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3420-9131 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Promoting children and young people’s health and rights
Background: Governments are responsible for ensuring children’s rights, wellbeing, and safety, including by adequately supporting families and communities in responding to the impacts associated with social determinants of health throughout the lifespan. Article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child emphasises the right of every child to the highest attainable standard of health. The World Health Organization (2023) repor…
Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
Looking back, moving forward
(Shore & Mannino, 1975), former organization president and journal editor Milton Shore and Fortune Mannino wrote that the association had consistently held a philosophy that included (a) a commitment to an interdisciplinary approach in the study of mental health problems and the development of mental health programs; (b) an emphasis on prevention as well as treatment; (c) the integration of the clinical and the social; (d) a major focus on the so…
Establishing a path to unity
The Biden/Harris Administration faces many challenges, from systems and policies that do not work for or benefit all Americans to stark social and political divisions. Multiple courses of action will be necessary, and there must be commitment and investment for the "long haul." When considering the nation's challenges, overarching themes emerge that must be addressed. For instance, recommendations for justice reform cannot be followed without sig…
Global mental health
Mental health needs have been recognized as a priority area by the World Health Organization (WHO), and a Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan (2013) was proposed to address the needs of millions of people around the world. Concerns have been raised about the degree to which current global efforts are appropriate and sufficient for promoting mental health (MH), reducing the risk for common MH disorders, and addressing the needs of individuals …
Applying Collaborative Learning and Quality Improvement to Public Health
Continuing our organizational mission
This editorial explains the need for a new name for the American Orthopsychiatric Association (ORTHO). As ORTHO continues their work into the 21st century, they want to better reflect their global membership and focus, increasing the number of partnerships with individuals and organizations, and commitment to a just society. Therefore, ORTHO is changing their name to the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice. It is crucial to u…
Impacts of a farmers’ market incentive programme on fruit and vegetable access, purchase and consumption
Objective The present study examines the impact of Health Bucks, a farmers’ market incentive programme, on awareness of and access to farmers’ markets, and fruit and vegetable purchase and consumption in low-income New York City neighbourhoods. Design The evaluation used two primary data collection methods: (i) an on-site point-of-purchase survey of farmers’ market shoppers; and (ii) a random-digit-dial telephone survey of residents in neighbourh…
Persons With Disabilities as an Unrecognized Health Disparity Population
Disability is an emerging field within public health; people with significant disabilities account for more than 12% of the US population. Disparity status for this group would allow federal and state governments to actively work to reduce inequities. We summarize the evidence and recommend that observed differences are sufficient to meet the criteria for health disparities: population-level differences in health outcomes that are related to a hi…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Leadership Development for the MCH Workforce
Family Leaders and Workforce Leadership Development
Selected Findings from the Cross-Site Evaluation of the Federal Healthy Start Program
Achieving Population Health in Accountable Care Organizations
Although “population health” is one of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim goals, its relationship to accountable care organizations (ACOs) remains ill-defined and lacks clarity as to how the clinical delivery system intersects with the public health system. Although defining population health as “panel” management seems to be the default definition, we called for a broader “community health” definition that could improve relati…
Characteristics, Access, Utilization, Satisfaction, and Outcomes of Healthy Start Participants in Eight Sites
Research Consortium on Children with Chronic Conditions (RCCCC)
Intermediate Outcomes, Strategies, and Challenges of Eight Healthy Start Projects
Time to Embrace Public Health Approaches to National and Global Challenges
Many challenges face us today at the local, national, and global levels in assuring the health and security of all individuals. The population-based prevention focus of public health, which is the practice of social justice, offers an approach and potential solutions to major national and global challenges, such as universal health coverage, military investments, climate change, and women's and children's health. As Martin Luther King Jr stated i…
Prevalence and Correlates of Depression as a Secondary Condition Among Adults With Disabilities
This article examines the associations among environmental factors, healthy behaviors, and depression in a sample of adults with major disabilities. When sociodemographics and type and level of disability were controlled, environmental factors (e.g., access to care, contacts with friends, and experience of assault) and risk behaviors (e.g., tobacco use, marijuana use, and physical exercise) were significant correlates of depression. Public health…
Language Proficiency and the Enrollment of Medicaid-Eligible Children in Publicly Funded Health Insurance Programs
Tobacco use among adults with disabilities in Massachusetts
There are disparities in smoking rates between adults with and without disabilities. Smoking cessation programmes targeted to the disabled community are needed
Decreased youth tobacco use in Massachusetts 1996 to 1999
Results support the effectiveness of the comprehensive Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program. The increasing tobacco rates in the first half of the 1990s have been dramatically reversed. These results suggest that programme efforts should be supported or even expanded in order to decrease further the state's rates of youth tobacco use. The findings suggest that other states may learn useful lessons from Massachusetts' successes
The Impact of Television Viewing on Mental Aptitude and Achievement
Journal Article THE IMPACT OF TELEVISION VIEWING ON MENTAL APTITUDE AND ACHIEVEMENT: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY Get access STEVEN L. GORTMAKER, STEVEN L. GORTMAKER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar CHARLES A. SALTER, CHARLES A. SALTER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DEBORAH K. WALKER, DEBORAH K. WALKER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Patterns of response in families of chronically disabled children
Interviews with parents of 1,726 special education students yielded reports of stress that varied significantly by type of disability and by maternal education level; family involvement in the special education process also varied significantly by level of education. Clinically important differences in family perceptions and coping mechanisms are described and the need for better child care provisions and involvement of low-income parents in the …
Variation in Special Education Classification Across School Districts
Using independent information collected from the parents and teachers of a stratified random sample of 829 special education students, we compared the classification practices of five major metropolitan school districts. We examined the functional levels of students with the same labels living in different districts and tested whether differences in functional status were associated with the prevalence of the classification. To determine whether …
Chronically Ill children in school
Attention to the specific educational needs of chronically ill children is a relatively recent development in American education, beginning in a limited fashion at the turn of the century. Prior to that time, high mortality rates, societal attitudes towards the chronically ill or delicate child, and the view of public schooling as a privilege rather than a right, kept all but the mildly impaired out of the public system. Reversals in these trends…
Persons With Disabilities as an Unrecognized Health Disparity Population
Disability is an emerging field within public health; people with significant disabilities account for more than 12% of the US population. Disparity status for this group would allow federal and state governments to actively work to reduce inequities. We summarize the evidence and recommend that observed differences are sufficient to meet the criteria for health disparities: population-level differences in health outcomes that are related to a hi…
Achieving Population Health in Accountable Care Organizations
Although “population health” is one of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim goals, its relationship to accountable care organizations (ACOs) remains ill-defined and lacks clarity as to how the clinical delivery system intersects with the public health system. Although defining population health as “panel” management seems to be the default definition, we called for a broader “community health” definition that could improve relati…
The Impact of Television Viewing on Mental Aptitude and Achievement
Journal Article THE IMPACT OF TELEVISION VIEWING ON MENTAL APTITUDE AND ACHIEVEMENT: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY Get access STEVEN L. GORTMAKER, STEVEN L. GORTMAKER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar CHARLES A. SALTER, CHARLES A. SALTER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DEBORAH K. WALKER, DEBORAH K. WALKER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Variation in Special Education Classification Across School Districts
Using independent information collected from the parents and teachers of a stratified random sample of 829 special education students, we compared the classification practices of five major metropolitan school districts. We examined the functional levels of students with the same labels living in different districts and tested whether differences in functional status were associated with the prevalence of the classification. To determine whether …
Time to Embrace Public Health Approaches to National and Global Challenges
Many challenges face us today at the local, national, and global levels in assuring the health and security of all individuals. The population-based prevention focus of public health, which is the practice of social justice, offers an approach and potential solutions to major national and global challenges, such as universal health coverage, military investments, climate change, and women's and children's health. As Martin Luther King Jr stated i…
Chronically Ill children in school
Attention to the specific educational needs of chronically ill children is a relatively recent development in American education, beginning in a limited fashion at the turn of the century. Prior to that time, high mortality rates, societal attitudes towards the chronically ill or delicate child, and the view of public schooling as a privilege rather than a right, kept all but the mildly impaired out of the public system. Reversals in these trends…
Clinical assessments and maternal judgments
Mothers and clinicians, both of whom play key roles in securing mental health services for children, have been found to differ in their ratings of children's adjustment. While this finding is confirmed by the present study, ratings made by social workers based on a structured interview with mothers prior to their children's kindergarten entry indicate a number of significant relationships with measures of children's school and behavioral adjustme…
Patterns of response in families of chronically disabled children
Interviews with parents of 1,726 special education students yielded reports of stress that varied significantly by type of disability and by maternal education level; family involvement in the special education process also varied significantly by level of education. Clinically important differences in family perceptions and coping mechanisms are described and the need for better child care provisions and involvement of low-income parents in the …
Variation in Special Education Classification Across School Districts
Using independent information collected from the parents and teachers of a stratified random sample of 829 special education students, we compared the classification practices of five major metropolitan school districts. We examined the functional levels of students with the same labels living in different districts and tested whether differences in functional status were associated with the prevalence of the classification. To determine whether …
The Impact of Television Viewing on Mental Aptitude and Achievement
Journal Article THE IMPACT OF TELEVISION VIEWING ON MENTAL APTITUDE AND ACHIEVEMENT: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY Get access STEVEN L. GORTMAKER, STEVEN L. GORTMAKER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar CHARLES A. SALTER, CHARLES A. SALTER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DEBORAH K. WALKER, DEBORAH K. WALKER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Language Proficiency and the Enrollment of Medicaid-Eligible Children in Publicly Funded Health Insurance Programs
Tobacco use among adults with disabilities in Massachusetts
There are disparities in smoking rates between adults with and without disabilities. Smoking cessation programmes targeted to the disabled community are needed
Decreased youth tobacco use in Massachusetts 1996 to 1999
Results support the effectiveness of the comprehensive Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program. The increasing tobacco rates in the first half of the 1990s have been dramatically reversed. These results suggest that programme efforts should be supported or even expanded in order to decrease further the state's rates of youth tobacco use. The findings suggest that other states may learn useful lessons from Massachusetts' successes
Prevalence and Correlates of Depression as a Secondary Condition Among Adults With Disabilities
This article examines the associations among environmental factors, healthy behaviors, and depression in a sample of adults with major disabilities. When sociodemographics and type and level of disability were controlled, environmental factors (e.g., access to care, contacts with friends, and experience of assault) and risk behaviors (e.g., tobacco use, marijuana use, and physical exercise) were significant correlates of depression. Public health…
Intermediate Outcomes, Strategies, and Challenges of Eight Healthy Start Projects
Time to Embrace Public Health Approaches to National and Global Challenges
Many challenges face us today at the local, national, and global levels in assuring the health and security of all individuals. The population-based prevention focus of public health, which is the practice of social justice, offers an approach and potential solutions to major national and global challenges, such as universal health coverage, military investments, climate change, and women's and children's health. As Martin Luther King Jr stated i…
Characteristics, Access, Utilization, Satisfaction, and Outcomes of Healthy Start Participants in Eight Sites
Research Consortium on Children with Chronic Conditions (RCCCC)
Achieving Population Health in Accountable Care Organizations
Although “population health” is one of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim goals, its relationship to accountable care organizations (ACOs) remains ill-defined and lacks clarity as to how the clinical delivery system intersects with the public health system. Although defining population health as “panel” management seems to be the default definition, we called for a broader “community health” definition that could improve relati…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Leadership Development for the MCH Workforce
Family Leaders and Workforce Leadership Development
Selected Findings from the Cross-Site Evaluation of the Federal Healthy Start Program
Impacts of a farmers’ market incentive programme on fruit and vegetable access, purchase and consumption
Objective The present study examines the impact of Health Bucks, a farmers’ market incentive programme, on awareness of and access to farmers’ markets, and fruit and vegetable purchase and consumption in low-income New York City neighbourhoods. Design The evaluation used two primary data collection methods: (i) an on-site point-of-purchase survey of farmers’ market shoppers; and (ii) a random-digit-dial telephone survey of residents in neighbourh…
Persons With Disabilities as an Unrecognized Health Disparity Population
Disability is an emerging field within public health; people with significant disabilities account for more than 12% of the US population. Disparity status for this group would allow federal and state governments to actively work to reduce inequities. We summarize the evidence and recommend that observed differences are sufficient to meet the criteria for health disparities: population-level differences in health outcomes that are related to a hi…
Applying Collaborative Learning and Quality Improvement to Public Health
Continuing our organizational mission
This editorial explains the need for a new name for the American Orthopsychiatric Association (ORTHO). As ORTHO continues their work into the 21st century, they want to better reflect their global membership and focus, increasing the number of partnerships with individuals and organizations, and commitment to a just society. Therefore, ORTHO is changing their name to the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice. It is crucial to u…
Global mental health
Mental health needs have been recognized as a priority area by the World Health Organization (WHO), and a Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan (2013) was proposed to address the needs of millions of people around the world. Concerns have been raised about the degree to which current global efforts are appropriate and sufficient for promoting mental health (MH), reducing the risk for common MH disorders, and addressing the needs of individuals …
Establishing a path to unity
The Biden/Harris Administration faces many challenges, from systems and policies that do not work for or benefit all Americans to stark social and political divisions. Multiple courses of action will be necessary, and there must be commitment and investment for the "long haul." When considering the nation's challenges, overarching themes emerge that must be addressed. For instance, recommendations for justice reform cannot be followed without sig…
Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
Looking back, moving forward
(Shore & Mannino, 1975), former organization president and journal editor Milton Shore and Fortune Mannino wrote that the association had consistently held a philosophy that included (a) a commitment to an interdisciplinary approach in the study of mental health problems and the development of mental health programs; (b) an emphasis on prevention as well as treatment; (c) the integration of the clinical and the social; (d) a major focus on the so…
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