"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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September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.
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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.
October 18, 2011 | Journal Article
Educators and health promotion proponents can partner to achieve health and educational goals simultaneously.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Katherine J. Rosich and Janet R. Hankin outline the contents of 11 articles from this special supplement to the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. The findings are the result of 50 years of research into the social dimensions of health and health care in the U.S.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article from a Journal of Health and Social Behavior supplement presents evidence supporting Phelan and Link"s fundamental causes theory. Socioeconomic status (SES) is a fundamental cause of health inequalities because it demonstrates four essential features.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article reviews the past half century of medical sociology in the United States, which includes research into the structure, organization, dynamics and impact of health care services.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
In this article, the author considers the life-cycle of bioethical principles from private ethical conflicts to public spectacle to ingrained policy within health care organizations. Essentially contested total social conflicts have given rise to the language of principlism.
July 22, 2011 | Story
Persuading physicians to focus on social risk factors. As a Health & Society Scholar, Jutte studied the interaction of biological and social risk factors in early childhood, and their relationship to long-term health and educational outcomes.
July 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines whether government-sponsored early intervention programs have the capacity to meet surging demand for autism services. A recommendation by the American Academy of Pediatrics that all young children be screened for autism may create increased demand for autism services.
May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article reports risk factors for reduced sleep during infancy the authors analyzed a range of variables including maternal characteristics (e.g. education, household income), race/ethnicity, and parenting choices (e.g. television viewing or attending daycare).
September 13, 2010 | Story
RWJF Physician Faculty Scholar finds that most states are not able to provide the recommended level of treatment for the growing number of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders.