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- Heat-related illnesses are common, yet preventable on hot days. Children and pregnant women need to take extra precautions to avoid overheating on days of extreme heat. Dehydration, heat stroke, and other heat illnesses may affect a child or pregnant woman more severely than the average adult. (website introduction)October 2024Social/Structural Determinants, Environment/Context
- Climate distress in young people is very likely to increase in coming years, and young people’s mental health services need to be prepared to meet the demand. This paper reports a qualitative pilot study to establish the views of three stakeholder groups involved in youth mental health counselling services in England: young people, mental health counsellors, and strategic partners. We find broad…October 2024Mental/Behavioral Health, Climate Change
- In today's society, the concept of social justice has become increasingly important in all aspects of our lives, including education. As educators, we are responsible for ensuring that every student has access to equal opportunities and resources to thrive academically and personally. In this article, we will explore the definition and importance of social justice in education, examine the…July 2024Early Childhood Education, Opportunity Youth
- The characteristics of a neighborhood’s built environment may influence health-promoting behaviors, interactions between neighbors, and perceptions of safety. Although some research has reported on how youth in high-violence communities navigate danger, less work has investigated how these youth perceive the built environment, their desires for these spaces, and how these desires relate to their…April 2024Physical Environment
- Child well-being refers to the overall state of a child's physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development, encompassing their health, happiness, safety, and ability to thrive. Child well-being is influenced by various factors, including family support, education, access to healthcare, and neighborhood characteristics. Neighborhood characteristics refer to a range of attributes defining the…March 2024COVID-19/Coronavirus, Environmental/Community Health
- Purpose: The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth report recommends several Medicaid policies to increase insurance coverage among adolescents: approve Medicaid expansion; eliminate the 5-year Medicaid waiting period for lawfully present adolescent immigrants; increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for adolescent health services to the level of Medicare; and ensure coverage…October 2023Advocacy, Access
- School-based mental health services (SBMH) may increase students’ access to care, which could yield benefits for mental health status and human capital-related outcomes. This paper uses a difference-in-differences design with 19 years of survey and administrative data to estimate the impacts of SBMH on a range of K-12 student outcomes. SBMH increases average outpatient mental health service use…October 2023Suicide, School-Based Health Care
- A proposed school-based health center (SBHC) at the new Grand Junction High School campus was voted down 3-2 by the Mesa County Valley School District 51 Board of Education during its March 7 business meeting. Concerns regarding parental rights and a lawsuit against the health center’s proposed operator were two reasons cited by the board members voting against the clinic. (author abstract)May 2023School-Based Health Care
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- A strong start in life: How public health policies affect the well-being of pregnancies and familiesThis report takes a holistic view of perinatal health and, as people progress through different stages of development, puts it in context as a developmental precursor to later indicators of wellness, including birth outcomes, postpartum wellness, and subsequent child development. The five domains of social determinants of health and well-being serve as the framework for this report:…July 2022COVID-19/Coronavirus, Maternal/Child Health, Social/Structural Determinants
- Food and nutrition are literally life-giving and life-sustaining, yet parents and caretakers in the United States who rely on infant and specialty formulas for their loved ones’ health and nutritional needs face high prices and severe shortages. As of May 2022, 43 percent of formula products were out of stock nationwide—a massive increase from the average out-of-stock rate of between 2 percent…June 2022Maternal/Child Health, Social/Structural Determinants
- Childhood adversity and its structural causes drive lifelong and intergenerational inequities in health and well-being. Health care systems increasingly understand the influence of childhood adversity on health outcomes but cannot treat these deep and complex issues alone. Cross-sector partnerships, which integrate health care, food support, legal, housing, and financial services among others,…May 2022Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- The transition from school to postsecondary life can be difficult. Research shows that youth with disabilities are less likely than their nondisabled peers to successfully make this transition. The disparities in outcomes are larger for youth with disabilities who are from racial and ethnic minority groups. Minority youth are also more likely to be disconnected. This Minority Youth and…April 2022Early Childhood Education, Social Environment
- Adequate access to resources such as child care, nutritious foods, and housing can help people of reproductive age and their families lead healthy lives. However, these resources are not sufficiently available across all geographic areas and communities in the United States. People in these underserved communities—who have historically been disproportionately affected by rigid policies, minimal…January 2022Maternal/Child Health, Social/Structural Determinants
- To effectively support asthma self-management among children most at risk for poor outcomes, it is important to examine potential disparities in parents' asthma-related knowledge. This study draws on baseline data collected from a randomized controlled trial to analyze how knowledge of asthma self-management varies by sociodemographic characteristics in a racially and economically diverse sample…November 2021Asthma, Adolescent Health, Education
- Birthing can be an empowering experience for women. Within many Indigenous cultures around the world, birth is a ceremony to celebrate new life, acknowledging the passing from the spiritual world into the physical world. While initiatives to “indigenize” health care have been made, this paper argues that the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations…June 2021Social/Structural Determinants
- Addressing pediatric mental health during COVID-19 and other disasters: A national tabletop exerciseObjective: In the wake of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, rapid identification of pediatric mental health risk is extremely important. The Western Regional Alliance for Pediatric Emergency Management held an integrated, interdisciplinary national tabletop exercise to familiarize mental health and non-mental health professionals with Psychological Simple…April 2021COVID-19/Coronavirus, Mental/Behavioral Health, Disasters
- In this conversation, Marina Apgar, post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), and Mieke Snyder, research fellow at the IDS reflect on the effectiveness of two research for development programs: CLARISSA, a program focused on reducing the worst forms of child labor in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar, and Tomorrow's Cities, focused on reducing disaster risk…October 2020Child Maltreatment, Disasters
- This article addresses the severe hunger crisis currently affecting America, the worst in decades. It discusses the root causes of the issue, including economic disparities, unemployment, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article proposes solutions to mitigate hunger, such as increasing government support for food assistance programs, strengthening food supply chains, improving access…October 2020Social/Structural Determinants
- Antonio Boyd is the Chief Operating Officer at Future of School, the leading non-partisan charity focused on access to quality education, and a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education at Northeastern University. In this video, Antonio discusses his action research dissertation with his chair, Dr. Cherese Childers-McKee. Antonio used participatory action research to explore…October 2020High School Graduation
- This episode of On the Evidence focuses on transition-age youth (ages 14 to 24) who have disabilities and must navigate a complex and fragmented system to access benefits and support services. Recent research suggests that it is possible to intervene with youth with disabilities and smooth the transition to adulthood, especially by providing well-designed, customized supports to specific…July 2020Services & Programs, Opportunity Youth
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