... understand its impact on children‟s health at birth and during early childhood and whether the lift of the ban had an immediate impact on child abandonment We find insignificant estimates for health ... early childhood (at age and 5) andthe impact of the lift of the ban on child abandonment We conduct our empirical analysis on children‟s outcomes at birth and during early childhood using the ... whether the abandoned child entered the current institution directly from their families or from another institution.35 Figure depicts the abandoned children per 10,000 live births, by month and...
... are of other race, mother is white (not father), mother is Hispanic (not father), mother is of other race (not father), mother is foreign-born (not father), father is foreign-born (not mother), ... Hispanic - both other - mother is white, father is non-white - mother is black, father is non-black - mother is Hispanic, father is non-Hispanic - mother is other, father is non-other −0.274 −0.122 ... parents are of “other” race/ethnicity - Mother = white, Father = non-white - Mother = black, Father = non-black - Mother = Hispanic, Father = non-Hispanic - Mother = other, Father = other Parents’...
... outreach and informing methods help families apply for coverage, understand their benefits, and find medical homes Implementingthemedicalhomeconceptcanimprovechildhealthqualityandefficacy ... Other Medicaid contract entities? Collaboration and Action to ImproveChildHealth Systems: Toolkit for State Leaders Implementingthemedicalhomeconceptcanimprovechildhealthqualityand ... qualityandefficacyThe Evolving MedicalHomeThe American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and HRSA/MCHB have promoted theconcept of a medicalhome for decades The AAP first advanced theconcept to...
... of the mother that may reduce thehealth of the child: early inputs into thechildhealth production function The second set are the mother’s own health, including her mental health, prior to the ... sick andhealth care, whether they have a regular bedtime and whether they wear a seat belt The parental health behaviours are parental BMI, whether the parent smokes and whether the mother has ... to the child, or the nature of the housing of thechild Instead, the biggest determinant of childhealth appears to be the prebirth health of the mother, particularly her mental health Mothers...
... Brumberg, and Milton Friedman Across these, and other authors, the consumption of a product (as opposed to the amount produced) is foreseen to vary depending on a number of local factors andthe time ... Methodology 10 The Worldwide Market Potential for Accident & health insurance andmedical service plans sold by life insurance companies 12 AFRICA: ACCIDENT & HEALTH INSURANCE ANDMEDICAL SERVICE ... Vincent andthe Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States viii Executive Summary American Samoa Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Federation Nauru New Zealand Palau Solomon Islands...
... outlines the conceptual framework for understanding how disasters impact childhealth Section describes the data used in the empirical analysis, Section outlines the methods, and Sections describes the ... socioeconomic andchildhealth indicators than Northern states (Murthi, Guio, and Dreze 1995; Mishra, Roy, and Retherford 2004; Rani, Bonu, and Harvey 2008) As a result, children in Southern states ... set of health shocks to thechild Mother’s education has been shown to be critical for determining a variety of childhealth outcomes across developing countries (Desai and Alva 1998), and these...
... all children with a medicalhomecan promote equity andimprove their healthand well-being.93 Yet the likelihood of a child having a primary care provider that meets the criteria of a medicalhome ... management, andquality improvement coaching The Children’s Healthcare Access Program has been replicated in Grand Rapids, Michigan The success of these two organizations illustrates that the support and ... status, and race/ethnicity to assess the equity of thechildhealth care system the fourth dimension of performance The analysis ranks states andthe District of Columbia on each indicator and the...
... MPE conceived the idea of the review EAL wrote and conducted the searches and sifted the results Both authors assessed the included and excluded studies EAL led the writing of the manuscript ... may limit their generalisability to other countries and healthcare systems Although we pooled the results of the studies (reflecting their homogeneity of patient groups and settings), there were ... [49,51,52] with the PCP being the target of the intervention in two of them [51,52] The unit of allocation was the patient in seven [46-49,52-54], the physician in one [50], andthe family practice...
... wrote the manuscript with comments and revision by EK, MLF and MY MLF was the managing clinician at presentation, and EK the physician continuing care All the authors read and approved the final ... previously obtained from the patients and/ or their parents for the original publication of the case discussed in the literature review Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the families included ... variable and depend upon the severity of the mutation and sex of the individual The classic presentation is males with hemizygous null mutations with no residual enzyme activity who present in the...
... leadership and partnering to encourage other training entities to assist with the address of these persistent training needs Thehealth of the nation’s children and families is too important andthe ... educational needs of public healthandhealth care professionals who serve or are administratively responsible for U.S children and their families, the Maternal andChildHealth Bureau (MCHB), HRSA, ... stayed the same (e.g., the need for program development and management training), and some have emerged (e.g., the need for systems development training) These apparent P1: GXB Maternal andChild Health...
... document—descriptions and ordering information about all the currently available manuals and guides on qualitative and participatory research related to childhealthand nutrition and reproductive healthThe first ... Results of these field tests allow the authors of the manual to select the most effective methods and techniques to obtain the requisite information and to improvethe instructions for using these ... interest and make them accessible to the user For instance, by searching for “diarrhea AND child, ” the program will locate all passages in the data that contain both words, “diarrhea” and child. ” The...
... order to improvethehealth conditions of the poorest women and children and expedite progress towards achieving the MDGs related to maternal andchildhealth in the few years left to the target ... disadvantage the poor, since it is among the poorest groups that the MDG indicators are not good and there is a significant potential for improvement in these groups [2] The selected maternal andchildhealth ... interventions are listed in Tables and In the Demographic andHealth Surveys, Table Maternal andchildhealth outcomes included in the study and their definitions Health outcome Definition/measurement...
... construct and test meaningful hypotheses and transfer learning about the intervention to other settings Information about the actual use of the intervention, and about its Helps to understand how the ... for the evaluation of small-scale quality improvement projects Qualityand Safety in Health Care 2003, 12:210-214 Shojania KG, Grimshaw JM: Evidence-based quality improvement: The state of the ... research and, in doing so, reconceptualise their understanding and also develop their skills in facilitation In this way, the cooperative inquiry group provides a forum for the KTAs to develop their...
... increases the production of cytokines and free radicals so they could affect the cardiovascular system and prognosis in these patients deteriorate The risk of hypertension also significantly higher ... consideration The study complied with the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association on ethical issues in Biomedical Research The research proposal was adopted Council Ethics in Biomedical ... triglycerides and LDL-C would increased the risk of hyperuricemia at 3.9, 2.1 and 2.9 times higher than the normal group respectively The difference was statistically significant with p
... prenatal andchild healthcare can directly influence theefficacy of the production of childhealth inasmuch as their practices have an empirical basis The major assumption, therefore, is that the ... which is thequality of medical care, and εt , which combines unobserved individual, household and community shocks to health High technical qualitycan directly influence theefficacy of thehealth ... constrained by available time and resources, by thehealth production function, andthe price andquality of all available medical services Therefore, thehealth behavior demands in period t are: xt...
... overcoming these barriers The Connection to Health action plan module stores patient action plans and provides ongoing access to the plans by the healthcare team andthe patient for self-monitoring and ... patients with the information, tools, and support they need to adopt healthy behaviors and take care of their health problems in their daily lives However, primary care clinicians and staff often ... Follow-up The Connection to Health System provides ongoing monitoring and prompts follow-up by both the patient andthe practitioner The self-monitoring component allows the patient to track their...
... this quality improvement project took place in concert with the Academic Chronic Care Collaborative sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges andthe Institute for Healthcare Improvement ... in Quality Improvement The physician felt ownership of the improvement processes overall and had the authority to solicit and get approval for staff in other disciplines to participate in the ... at the mesosystem level At the same time, there were several key innovation-hindering factors associated with the general mandate to conduct SMAs andthe specific decision to translate the mandated...
... this quality improvement project took place in concert with the Academic Chronic Care Collaborative sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges andthe Institute for Healthcare Improvement ... in Quality Improvement The physician felt ownership of the improvement processes overall and had the authority to solicit and get approval for staff in other disciplines to participate in the ... at the mesosystem level At the same time, there were several key innovation-hindering factors associated with the general mandate to conduct SMAs andthe specific decision to translate the mandated...
... were in the family home (dichotomized as three or more televisions in the home/ fewer than televisions), and whether thechild had a television and/ or computer/electronic games console in their ... of older children reported watching TV, videos or DVD’s together with their child, and eating dinner in front of the TV together with their child more often than parents of younger children Parents ... opportunity to change the family andhome environment Acknowledgements TheHealth Eating and Play study (HEAPs) was funded by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (baseline) andthe Australian...