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- Purpose: Perceived Social Support (PSS) can impact breastfeeding behaviors, and a lack of PSS potentially contributes to disparities in breastfeeding rates for African American women (AA). Objectives were to describe PSS at two timepoints and test associations between PSS and breastfeeding intensity for AA.Methods: Data are from a feasibility trial of breastfeeding support among AA. The Hughes…May 2023Maternal/Child Health
- As abortion rights become more restricted in the United States, a new study shows that it’s become harder for women to access reproductive health care services more broadly – such as routine screenings and birth control – in recent years.April 2023Abortion Access
- For more than a decade, the Network for Public Health Law has worked with key stakeholders across the United States to advance law and policy that supports safer, healthier, stronger and more equitable communities. The Network provides technical assistance, trainings, evidence-based tools and resources, and connects public health policymakers, officials, lawyers, and practitioners as well as…April 2023Reproductive/Sexual Health
- Desegregation-focused housing policies aimed at reducing disparities in neighborhood conditions may also reduce disparities in health outcomes. This paper examines the effects of one such policy on the health of pregnant people and their newborn infants. Specifically, it studies the impact of Massachusetts Chapter 40B, a major civil rights-era housing policy that increases the supply of…April 2023Maternal/Child Health, Healthy Housing
- Civic engagement is positively associated with important health and developmental benefits for participating adolescents and young adults. As illustrated by youth political participation, social activism, and rallies for racial justice during the COVID-19 pandemic, youth civic engagement is often inspired by and responsive to problems that are salient to a young person’s lived experiences.…April 2023Maternal/Child Health, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Housing and Children’s Healthy Development (HCHD) is a longitudinal study of families with children aged 3 to 10 years of age at the study’s inception that tests the impact of offering the families rental assistance through HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher program on their housing choices, housing and neighborhood quality, and children’s development. The study intends to reveal how being offered the…February 2023Healthy Housing
- Children and teens in the US experience staggeringly high rates of gun deaths and injuries. They are also harmed when a friend or family member is killed with a gun, when someone they know is shot, and when they witness and hear gunshots. Gun homicides, non-fatal shootings, and exposure to gun violence stunt lives and, because of their disproportionate impact, reflect and intensify this country’s…February 2023Gun Violence/Firearms, Structural Violence, Environment/Context
- Twenty-five years ago, a watershed study on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) first established a relationship between childhood trauma and long-term health impacts that can last well into adulthood. Since then, numerous related studies have corroborated the association between ACEs and mental health and substance use disorders as well as diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.…February 2023Maternal/Child Health
- Importance: The prevalence of obesity among youths 2 to 19 years of age in the US from 2017 to 2018 was 19.3%; previous studies suggested that school lunch consumption was associated with increased obesity. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA) strengthened nutritional standards of school-based meals. Objective: To evaluate the association between the HHFKA and youth body mass…February 2023Maternal/Child Health, Policy & Law
- Drawing on data from the National Survey of Children’s Health, this brief investigates the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and disparities in ACEs exposure by children’s race, family income, age and health insurance coverage. The disproportionate impact of ACEs has deep ramifications on health equity due to related research showing that ACEs exposure is associated with…February 2023Maternal/Child Health, Social/Structural Determinants
- Purpose: Mental health inequalities across social identities/positions during the COVID-19 pandemic have been mostly reported independently from each other or in a limited way (e.g., at the intersection between age and sex or gender). We aim to provide an inclusive socio-demographic mapping of different mental health measures in the population using quantitative methods that are consistent with…January 2023Communicable Disease, Mental/Behavioral Health
- Background Although preventable through screening, cervical cancer incidence and mortality are higher among American Indian and Alaska Native women (AIAN) than White women. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansions may uniquely impact access and use of cervical cancer screening among AIAN women and ultimately alleviate this disparity. Methods Using Medicaid…January 2023Cancer, Medicaid
- The Connecticut Health Foundation’s Health News Roundup highlights several critical issues such as workforce shortages, distrust in healthcare, racism, and legislative action that affect the mental health of communities of color. This roundup provides a snapshot of the challenges and potential policy directions for improving mental health care and addressing disparities in health outcomes. (…January 2023Mental/Behavioral Health
- Maternal health disparities have many causes, but disparate social conditions and a lack of prenatal care or substandard maternal care are often key factors. Community-based maternal care models can help to narrow the disparities in maternal health outcomes by providing expanded prenatal, childbirth and postpartum support that is respectful and culturally relevant to at-risk women. These models…January 2023Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
- Cerebral Palsy Guide provides free educational materials, financial resources, and support options for families affected by this condition and other birth injuries. (website description)January 2023Maternal/Child Health
- SisterSong is a Southern based, national membership organization; our purpose is to build an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve institutional policies and systems that impact the reproductive lives of marginalized communities. SisterSong defines Reproductive Justice as the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the…January 2023Reproductive Justice, Racism
- Self-care is a broad-based concept and can encompass numerous actions that are intended to empower the individual to enhance their own health. Self-management approaches are one component of self-care. Given the nature of the medical abortion process, it is possible for women to manage the process by themselves in whole or part. While individuals may conduct some or all elements related to the…January 2023Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Reproductive Justice
- The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansions increased preconception and postpartum insurance coverage among low-income birthing people, leading to greater use of outpatient care. In this study we evaluated whether the expansions affected rates of postpartum hospitalization. Our analyses took advantage of underused longitudinal hospital data from the period 2010–17 to examine…January 2023Adverse Birth Outcomes, Medicaid
- The way a society treats people who give birth says a lot about that society. Tragically, the gender- and race-based biases in American society are evident in health outcomes surrounding pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum recovery.Our country is in the midst of a maternal health crisis. The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world and 60 percent of those…December 2022Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
- In this breakout session from the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, panelists shared excerpt clips from the film "Public Education, Racism, and Community Health: Lessons from New Orleans" which documents the community struggle in having a say with rebuilding the city's public education system after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The webinar also highlighted the structural flaws…December 2022Education, Environment/Context, Racism
- Preterm births in the U.S. have reached the highest level in 15 years, and disproportionately are experienced by Black and Native American mothers and infants, according to a new report from WKKF grantee March of Dimes. “Our country, unfortunately … is one of the least safe places to give birth and be born,” said Dr. Zsakeba Henderson, March of Dimes’ senior vice president and interim chief…November 2022Maternal/Child Health
- The Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership (BRHP), supported by The Kresge Foundation, launched the Healthy Children Voucher Demonstration (HCD) in October 2022. This initiative integrates housing assistance with health-focused support to improve health outcomes for families in Baltimore. The program pairs housing vouchers from the Housing Authority of Baltimore City with BRHP's mobility…November 2022Healthy Housing
- Importance: The number of people living in unaffordable housing (relative to income) is projected to continue increasing as housing cost inflation outpaces incomes in the US. Although reproductive-aged women have disproportionately high housing costs, particularly around the time of childbirth, data on associations between housing costs and maternal health and the role of publicly supported…November 2022Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Healthy Housing
- As of April 2021, nine states and the District of Columbia had enacted state-specific paid family leave (PFL) programs, offering partial wage replacement to parents after the birth of a child. The Biden Administration also proposed the development of a national solution through the American Families Plan. Despite these advances, concerns with workforce disruptions and economic costs have hindered…November 2022Mental/Behavioral Health, Paid Family Leave
- Child welfare agency leaders, including tribal child welfare administrators, and other decision makers possess substantial power and influence that can be leveraged toward advancing equity in research and evaluation. National momentum is growing to identify and address the disproportionality and disparities that diverse communities along the child welfare continuum experience. These…November 2022Policy and Practice
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