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Health Policy Forum
Category: Public PolicyAn examination of the ways that public policy effects children's health and access to health care.Brief attachment: 2006-09-Health_Policy_Forum-Mirvis.pdfTags: Best...
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A Closer Look At The Social Determinants Of Child Health
Category: Public PolicyThis brief by Barbara Starfield analyzes the social and societal determinants of child health and public policy approaches to influencing these determinants to enhance the health...
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Social Determinants of Child Health of Child Health
Category: Public PolicyThis brief by Linda Southward is a broad ranging analysis of the different fixed and random effects which influence children's well-being and development over the course of their...
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A Children’s Agenda For Tennessee
Category: Public PolicyWhy is it important to improve the well-being of the youngest children in Tennessee?Brief attachment: 2009-01-Childrens_Agenda.pdfTags:...
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Covering Kids' Health Needs
Category: Public PolicyHealth care coverage for children is a critical issue in Tennessee. In 2008, there were 158,759 uninsured children in the state. TennCare is the largest provider of health...
View ArticleFamily Planning Pays Off
What happens when a state expands access to family planning services under Medicaid? This is the subject of a new report by the Guttmacher Institute. As the report points out, a provision of the 2010...
View ArticleEarly Experience of Pain has Lasting Effects
About 9,000 newborn infants are receiving intensive care in the U.S. today, and many will be exposed to medical procedures that cause pain, such as needle sticks and circumcisions. Babies often receive...
View ArticleMother's Milk - the Gift that Keeps on Giving
All it takes to be reminded of the importance of mother's milk is to Google it.The phrase prompts hundreds of thousands of breastfeeding links that prove that the words are synonymous with the best,...
View ArticleFour Words that Change Lives
In numerous ways every day, with your help, we search for just the right words to engage more of the public and to make them understand the importance of brain development for the future of our...
View ArticleGood News for Parents of Young Children
A few years ago, The Urban Child Institute (UCI) and Neighborhood Christian Centers partnered on a simple concept that would encourage Mid-South families to spend time together in a way that fused...
View ArticlePremature Births: Something Worth Reducing
Prematurity takes a high toll on families, and imposes high costs to society. More babies die each year from causes related to prematurity than from any other single cause, and children born...
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