Child Health

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Making It Easier for School Staff to Help Traumatized Students — Jun 4, 2009

Describes Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET), a cognitive-behavioral program intended to be delivered in schools by teachers or school counselors rather than clinical personnel.

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Support for Students Exposed to Trauma: The SSET Program — Jun 3, 2009

The Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET) program is a series of ten teacher- or school counselor-led lessons aimed at reducing distress for middle school students who have been exposed to a traumatic life event.

Journal Article

The Scientific Evidence for Child Health Insurance — Jan 15, 2009

Discusses two critical policy options related to child health insurance: reauthorization and potential expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and expansion of health insurance to all children.

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Planning for Health Care Transitions: Results from the 2005-2006 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs — Jan 1, 2009

Many youth with special health care needs have difficulties transferring to adult medical care.

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Influences of Physical and Social Neighborhood Environments on Children's Physical Activity and Obesity — Jan 1, 2009

The authors investigated the association between physical and social neighborhood environments and fifth-grade students' physical activity and obesity.

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The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review — Jan 1, 2009

Reviews studies that examine how transfer payments affect marriage or child well being.

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Treating Traumatized Children After Hurricane Katrina: Project Fleur-de Lis — Jan 1, 2009

Project Fleur-de-lis[TM] (PFDL) was established to provide a tiered approach to triage and treat children experiencing trauma symptoms after Hurricane Katrina.

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Setting Research Priorities to Reduce Global Mortality from Childhood Diarrhoea By 2015 — Jan 1, 2009

Childhood diarrhoea still claims nearly 2 million lives each year and remains responsible for 18% of all child deaths. Regardless of this, research interest in this disease has been steadily decreasing after the development of cost-effective interventions in the 1980s.

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Off-label Prescribing to Children in the United States Outpatient Setting — Jan 1, 2009

The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of off-label prescribing to children at United States outpatient visits and to determine how drug class, patient age, and physician specialty relate to off-label prescribing.

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Which Factors Explain the Decline in Infant and Child Mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh? — Jan 1, 2009

The authors use data from the Matlab Demographic Surveillance System on nearly 94,000 singleton live births that occurred between 1987 and 2002 to investigate the extent to which the change in mortality over this period can be explained by changes in repr

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Perceived Effects of Leave from Work and the Role of Paid Leave Among Parents of Children with Special Health Care Needs — Jan 1, 2009

The authors examined the perceived effects of leave from work among employed parents of children with special health care needs.

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Meeting Family and Military Needs Through Military Child Care — Jan 1, 2009

This article summarizes results from a child care survey of military families conducted by the RAND Corporation in 2004 and draws policy implications for the military child care system.

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Violence Exposure and PTSD: The Role of English Language Fluency in Latino Youth — Jan 1, 2009

The authors explored the level of violence exposure and trauma symptoms in Latino youth and the relationship of these factors with English language fluency.

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Support for Students Exposed to Trauma: A Pilot Study — Jan 1, 2009

This study describes preliminary data from a pilot study of a new program, Support for Students Exposed to Trauma, adapted from the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools program.

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Weight Status, Quality of Life, and Self-Concept in African American, Hispanic, and White Fifth-Grade Children — Jan 1, 2009

This study examined the association between weight status and quality of life (QOL) in fifth-grade African American, Hispanic, and white children and the potential mediation of this relationship by self-concept.

Journal Article

Factors Influencing the Enrollment of Eligible Extremely-Low-Birth-Weight Children in the Part C Early Intervention Program — Jan 1, 2009

Moderate iodine deficiency in Mexican schoolchildren was associated with a 4.26 times higher risk of low IQ. More attention is needed to ensure effective salt iodination processes.

Journal Article

Recanting of Life-Time Inhalant Use: How Big a Problem and What to Make of It — Jan 1, 2009

To establish the prevalence of recanting of life-time inhalant use, the authors identify correlates of recanting to gain insight to its causes and develop a method for distinguishing recanters who truly are versus are not life-time users of inhalants.

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Prevalence, Characteristics, and Associated Health and Health Care of Family Homelessness Among Fifth-Grade Students — Jan 1, 2009

The authors describe the lifetime prevalence and associated health-related concerns of family homelessness among fifth-grade students.

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Outpatient Satisfaction: The Role of Nominal Versus Perceived Communication — Jan 1, 2009

Examine the simultaneous associations of parent and coder assessments of communication events with parent satisfaction.

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Birth Weight Effects on Children's Mental, Motor, and Physical Development: Evidence from Twins Data — Jan 1, 2009

Determine the effect of very low birth weight (VLBW; <1500 g) and moderately low birth weight (MLBW; 1500-2499 g) on children's mental and motor development and physical growth during the first 2 years of life and whether VLBW and MLBW babies catch up to normal birth weight (NBW; >/=2500 g) children by age 2.

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