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PERSPECTIVE article

Front. Pediatr.
Sec. Children and Health
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fped.2024.1401739

Reading for Life-Long Health

Provisionally accepted
Kaiulani Shulman Kaiulani Shulman 1*Karen Baicker Karen Baicker 2Linda Mayes Linda Mayes 1
  • 1 Child Study Center, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, United States
  • 2 Scholastic Corporation (United States), New York, New York, United States

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    There is a strong, positive relationship between childhood literacy and physical and mental health outcomes in adulthood. Through primary care-based literacy interventions, pediatricians reach children and their families long before they enter traditional education venues. In so doing, pediatricians play a key role in children's school readiness and in turn health outcomes.The current state of childhood literacy in United States defines an increasingly urgent platform for the healthcare profession generally, and pediatricians specifically, to embrace. Through reviewing the existing literature on the impact of childhood literacy on physical, mental, and social-emotional health outcomes, we hope to highlight the need for increased collaboration between the education and medical fields to further promote the literacy interventions in pediatric healthcare settings.

    Keywords: reading, physical health, Mental Health, early childhood education, Health Outcomes, literacy

    Received: 15 Mar 2024; Accepted: 09 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Shulman, Baicker and Mayes. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Kaiulani Shulman, Child Study Center, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, United States

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