"Improving Access to Children's Mental Health Care: Lessons from a Study of Eleven States" - a new report from the Center for Health and Health Care Services - exposes barriers and opportunities for children's mental health under expansion of the Affordable Care Act.
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May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Obesity disproportionately impacts inner-city minority children. The Family Assessment of Initial Risk (FLAIR) intervention was tested in three primary care centers in the Bronx, New York. This article presents parents' focus group responses evaluating FLAIR.
March 26, 2013 | Issue Brief
Early treatment and intervention for mental illness can improve lives and lower related health care costs.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article describes three interventions that successfully reduced racial/ethnic health care disparities in children: one increased breastfeeding in a Navajo community, one decreased behaviors that can transmit HIV in African-American girls, and one increased insurance rates in Latino children. Learnings and pitfalls from these studies are also described.
March 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The effect of medical interventions on the reduction of mental retardation (MR) in the United States between 1950 and 2000 was examined in the present study. The general prevalence of MR was compared to the prevalence of case-specific MR for seven m ...
December 1, 2003 | Program Result
California Pacific Medical Center evaluated a program called the Identification and Early Intervention Program for At-Risk Seniors, which sought to identify high-risk non-hospitalized seniors before a crisis arose that would have forced a hospital stay.
September 1, 2005 | Program Result
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center examined attitudes toward tobacco and alcohol products in very young children and their relationship to parental attitudes and behavior toward the same products.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result
In 1999-2001, the University of Utah Department of Psychology conducted the third round of data collection and analysis for the Young Parenthood Project.
March 1, 2003 | Program Result
Judith S. Palfrey, M.D., and a research team at Children's Hospital in Boston conducted a follow-up study of the long-term impact of the Brookline [Mass.] Early Education Project.
National Program
A model that improves the health and well-being of adolescents by using evidence-based psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions in the early identification and treatment of adolescents and young adults with severe mental illness.
January 15, 2013 | Program Result
The Notah Begay III Foundation sponsored research, meetings, and interviews on the incidence, causes, and impact of obesity and type 2 diabetes among Native American youth in New Mexico, and how to address those challenges.