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Nurse Faculty Scholar Explores Effects of Poverty on Children's Health
December 20, 2009 | Story
Nursing professor Bob Atkins is discovering how low-income children can better manage routine health problems like ringworm, tooth decay and poor vision.
Effect of a Clinic-Based Referral System to Head Start: A Randomized Controlled Trial
August 25, 2004 | Journal Article
A Randomized Controlled Trial
Pediatric Visits Promote Early Childhood Literacy and Enhance Language Development in 1,400 Practices
June 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Boston University Medical Center expanded the Reach Out and Read program, which trains pediatric providers in counseling parents about reading to their children and provides practitioners with books to give them at well-child visits.
Improving Asthma Care for Children
National Program
Program to improve the management of asthma for children covered by Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Children's Futures: Improving Health and Development Outcomes for Children in Trenton, N.J.
National Program
To employ a comprehensive set of interventions to improve the health of children in Trenton, New Jersey.
Allies Against Asthma: A Program to Combine Clinical and Public Health Approaches to Chronic Illness
National Program
To support community-based coalitions aimed at improving efforts to control pediatric asthma.
Educating Pediatricians and Family Physicians in Children's Oral Health
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The authors recommend that educational programs be evaluated for the effect on the oral health of the children they serve and that closer medical-dental collaborations be fostered at all levels of the educational continuum.
Health Care Quality-Improvement Approaches to Reducing Child Health Disparities
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Children's health disparities are often overlooked. One way to address this issue is by merging findings from quality improvement initiatives with findings from disparities research. Asthma and immunization initiatives are two areas where disparities in children's health care and health have been tackled with some success.
Helping Mothers and Children with a Families Center in Washington, D.C.
March 24, 2010 | Program Result Report
The Developing Families Center in Washington, D.C., provides health and social support services to young women and their families in the city's low-income, Black neighborhoods.
Shaniqua Ballard's Story
March 24, 2010 | Program Result Report
Shaniqua Ballard was living without much hope in a shelter for pregnant women, with little money and no health insurance, until she discovered the Developing Families Center, where she received obstetric and well-woman care, and enrolled her children in the child development program.