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- Food insecurity has emerged as a highly prevalent risk to the growth, health, cognitive, and behavioral potential of America’s low-income children (www.feedingamerica.org). What exactly is food insecurity? The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines it as a household’s lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy lifestyle for all household members as well as…November 2014Services & Programs
- Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as Obamacare, has stimulated extensive debate over the way in which healthcare is financed, and whether or not the costs of healthcare are sustainable. Among publicly funded healthcare in the US, Medicaid and Medicare are primary sources of funding. In federal fiscal year 2012, Medicaid spending on acute health exceeded $275.4 billion, while…September 2014Policy and Practice
- Though a common target for health-improving efforts, young people are not often regarded as agents of change for healthier communities. However, a growing number of successful health-supportive policy, environment, and systems-change efforts trace their impetus to youth involvement. Not only are youth proving to be catalysts and prolific communicators in social movements, but their involvement…September 2014Social Environment
- Even after passage of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA), persons with mental illnesses have difficulty finding a job and keeping it. In this study, the authors assessed employment outcomes among more than 1,000 individuals with a psychiatric disability who were unemployed at the start of the two-year study period. Those who received ADA accommodations not only worked more hours per month…September 2014Services & Programs
- Introduction: While there has been impressive progress in creating and improving community healthcare delivery systems that support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), there is much more that can and should be done.Methods: This paper offers a review of healthcare delivery concepts on which new models are being developed, while also establishing an historical context.…July 2014Policy and Practice
- The release of the Institute of Medicine’s reports Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century over a decade ago led to numerous efforts in programs, practice, and research to improve health equity and health care quality. The pediatric community has been in the forefront of this effort providing “…March 2014Policy and Practice
- Historically, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have experienced health disparities related to several factors including: a lack of access to high quality medical care, inadequate preparation of health care providers to meet their needs, the social determinants of health (e.g., poverty, race and gender), and the failure to include people with IDD in public health…October 2013Policy and Practice
- BackgroundClinical practice guidelines are developed to improve the quality of healthcare. However, clinical guidelines may contribute to health inequities experienced by disadvantaged groups. This study uses an equity lens developed by the International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN) to examine how well clinical guidelines address inequities experienced by individuals with intellectual…May 2012Policy and Practice
- Today, there are approximately 5.2 million Native Americans living in the United States (Infoplease, 2011), of which 2.1 million are under the age of twenty-four (American Fact Finder, 2010). For those who belong to one of the 565 federally-recognized Indian tribes, the federal government has definite legal, treaty and trust obligations to provide these individuals health care, education, public…November 2011Depression, Suicide
- Good health significantly improves a person's quality of life. However, people with intellectual disabilities disproportionately have more health problems than the general population. Further complicating the matter is that people with more severe disabilities often cannot verbalize health complications they are experiencing, which leads to health problems being undiagnosed and untreated. It is…September 2010Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
- Disabled people represent between 10% and 20% of the world’s population, depending on the definitions adopted. They are disproportionately poor, and have historically experienced diverse forms of social exclusion. The rise of the disability rights movement, the establishment of disability discrimination legislation in many countries, and the advent of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons…November 2009Postsecondary Education
- This report is a synthetic review of impact evaluations examining effectiveness of water, sanitation and hygiene (WSH) interventions in reducing childhood diarrhoea. The results challenge the notion that water quality treatment in the household and hygiene interventions are necessarily the most efficacious and sustainable interventions for promoting reduction of diarrhoea. While point-of-use…August 2009Communicable Disease
- American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) land rights, sovereignty conflicts, and health outcomes have been significantly influenced by settler colonialism. This principle has driven the numerous relocations and forced assimilation of AI/AN children as well as the claiming of AI/AN lands across the United States. As tribes across the country begin to reclaim these lands and others continue to…November 2001Historical Trauma, Environmental Injustice
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