Promoting Equity and Resilience: Wellness Navigators' Role in Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have demonstrable negative effects on long-term physical and mental health. Racial and ethnic minority children disproportionally experience ACEs due to the impacts of structural inequality and discrimination, which could drive health disparities. Pediatric settings offer an opportune context to address ACEs and improve health equity, and to link families to the necessary resources to promote resilience. Wellness navigators (WNs), who can reflect patients' cultural, linguistic, and other shared characteristics, have the potential to improve patient care and integrated behavioral health services to mitigate the public health impact of ACEs. In the current study, bilingual and bicultural WNs helped to deliver an ACEs screening and respon

SUBMITTER: Barnett ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8240552 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature