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September 17, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Child safety seats reduce the risk of death in passenger cars by 71 percent for infants and by 54 percent for kids ages 1 to 4, according to the CDC. For children ages 4 to 8, booster seats cut the risk of serious injury by 45 percent.
June 20, 2013 | New Public Health Post
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America is reconvening to discuss the link between the needs of children in early childhood and improving community health.
June 10, 2013 | Culture of Health Post
The stress and limitations that often accompany childhood poverty can influence children’s life trajectories, change their dispositions, blunt their brain development, and even alter their genes.
November 28, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, reports on some key public health concerns for children and teens in the current issue, published online today. Vaccinating Children Against Chickenpox Also Helps Protect Babies Not Yet ...
November 15, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Advocates say the immediate response should be a call to 911. “That’s an emergency, a child is being assaulted,” says Mitru Ciarlante, director of the Youth Initiative at the National Center for Victims of Crime. Trained operators will then contact ...
July 21, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Our staff at Success By 6 and our early childhood program partners gathered to assess the damage to child care centers to see if families, child care providers or owners had housing, mental health or financial needs in the five counties that we work ...
September 30, 2013 | New Public Health Post
RWJF.org recently pulled together a collection of resources on “adverse childhood experiences”—how common they are and what they can mean for the adults those traumatized children become.
September 3, 2013 | New Public Health Post
“A Public Health Approach to Bullying Prevention,” a new book from the American Public Health Association, is a welcome addition as the school year starts back up and a resource to help stem the problem of bullying at school.
June 21, 2013 | Culture of Health Post
Low incomes, subpar education, and often race and ethnicity, combine to create a conspiracy against health.
May 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
David Olds, PhD, is founder of the Nurse-Family Partnership, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 40th Anniversary Force Multiplier that provides maternal and early childhood health programs for at-risk, first-time mothers. He is a professor of pediatri ...