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- The Liberated Birth Recovery Fund is a 10-month program in which we provide working families with paid scholarships. This support includes up to three months of paid leave assistance tailored to each family's needs. The fund allocates $2,000 per month for up to three months for full-time workers and $1,250 per month for part-time workers. We also plan to assist those who receive partial paid…January 2024Maternal/Child Health, Interventions
- This brief is part of a larger effort by Child Trends researchers to expand knowledge about Black children and families. This effort includes continued work on Black family cultural assets and the development of a new multi-year applied research agenda on Black children and families. While sometimes prioritizing adults within Black families and sometimes prioritizing children, the goals of this…January 2024Maternal/Child 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
- The 2023 State of WIC report – supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation – centers infant feeding, economic equity, and modernization of the WIC program. It brings lessons learned in 2022 to the forefront of the conversation on reforms, innovation, and policy. This report assesses the infant formula crisis, USDA’s proposed food package rule, and WIC’s role in building a healthier future for all. (…February 2023Adolescent Health, Services & Programs
- 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
- 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
- This report examines the impact of the lack of a national paid family leave program on maternal health disparities in the U.S. It highlights how the absence of paid leave contributes to poor health outcomes, particularly among racial and ethnic minorities and low-income women. The analysis, based on 2020 data from the CDC’s Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), reveals that White…November 2022Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Depression, Policy and Practice
- 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
- From 2014 to 2015, W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) partnered with the University of New Mexico evaluation team to conduct a study to examine if and how the Foundation's investments in the strategies of folic acid initiative, home visiting, doulas, breastfeeding peer counselors and baby-friendly hospitals were improving maternal-child health in WKKF's priority places in New Mexico. One key finding…June 2022Maternal/Child Health
- 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
- The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a widely used program. Previous research shows that WIC improves birth outcomes, but evidence about impacts on children and families is limited. We use a regression discontinuity leveraging an age five when children become ineligible for WIC and examine nutritional and laboratory outcomes for adults and children…June 2022Maternal/Child Health
- Health care organizations are increasingly making equitable care a strategic priority. Obstetric care represents a major area that needs improvement, as there are long-standing significant disparities in care and high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality. Artificial intelligence (AI) heralds the potential to improve care by employing novel approaches for prevention, risk mitigation,…December 2021Adverse Birth Outcomes, Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
- The United States has the worst maternal health outcomes among high-income nations – despite spending $111 billion yearly on maternal and infant care. People of color, particularly Black and Indigenous birthing people† and parents, bear the brunt of this fundamental failing. Today, there is more recognition than ever of the influence of structural forces on maternal and infant health and a…December 2021COVID-19/Coronavirus, Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Advocacy
- Maternal safety refers to the safety of a person during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period. Transitions through pregnancy and birth can pose complex safety challenges, and normal physiologic changes can result in signs and symptoms that make it difficult to recognize and diagnose serious illness. Additionally, patients may not receive timely or adequate information about their health…October 2021Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
- The COVID-19 pandemic shined a light on the importance of universal access to affordable, high quality child care. For many racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, however, that access has been a long-standing issue. A 2017 CLASP report noted the structural racism that creates and perpetuates inequities and the fragmented U.S. child care system for young children ages birth to 5 years…August 2021Early Adulthood, Services & Programs
- The research team is evaluating how different prenatal substance use policies (PSUPs) impact (1) how systems, such as child welfare, criminal justice and healthcare providers, respond; (2) maternal substance use and healthcare behaviors; and (3) maternal and newborn health. The researchers are also examining whether the policies have differential impact based on the mother’s race and ethnicity. (…October 2020Adverse Birth Outcomes, Substance Use and Misuse
- Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are common and they can have lasting, negative effects on health and well-being. They can also negatively impact education and job opportunities.Children and families thrive when they have access to safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments. These relationships and environments are essential to creating positive childhood experiences and…September 2020Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
- There is a well-established association between income and child health. We examine the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, which provides cash assistance to low-income children with disabilities, to assess how this relationship arises. We use a large database of Medicaid administrative records to estimate the causal effects of SSI receipt on children’s health, using a regression…January 2020Maternal/Child Health, Medicaid
- The project team is leveraging unique U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) policies and the DoD’s robust administrative records to examine whether parental support policies, such as maternity and paternity leave and subsidized childcare improve parents’ health outcomes. To study whether these policies can improve parental health, the team is taking advantage of changes to DoD parental supports…December 2019Early Adulthood
- Practitioners in maternal and child health (MCH) make it a priority to solve complex public health problems facing women, children, adolescents, and their families across the life course. The field of MCH has made significant advances in the past century, including the expansion of family planning methods and services, the eradication of once-common deadly diseases such as polio, and innovations…May 2019Maternal/Child Health
- The project team is developing plausible estimates of the causal effects of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on infant and child outcomes. The investigators focus on the effects of WIC on children after they are born; spillover effects from targeted children to other family members who are not directly eligible for the programs; and on the effects…January 2018Early Adulthood, Services & Programs
- Katherine Theall of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine looked at the association of the three neighborhood-level stressors with biological outcomes reflected by telomere length and cortisol functioning. Telomeres are the region at the end of chromosomes that naturally shorten with age. Shorter telomere lengths are associated with higher risks for…November 2016Maternal/Child Health, Adolescent Health, Social Environment
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