Social determinants of health for Native Hawaiian children and adolescents

CONCLUSIONS: The significant barriers facing Native Hawaiian children and adolescents achieving their full potential constitute a challenge to the fulfillment of the human right to health. Future research needs to more fully articulate the linkage between the health status of Native Hawaiian children and adolescents, the determinants of that status, and the requirements of the human right to health. Needed particularly are longitudinal studies which provide data that may link multigenerational trauma and discrimination to poverty and other factors, ultimately producing healthy inequity for Native Hawaiian children and adolescents.PMID:22235151 | PMC:PMC3254224

Source: Hawaii Medical Journal - January 12, 2012 Category: General Medicine Authors: David M K I Liu Christian K Alameda Source Type: research