Childhood is generally defined as the period of life between birth and adulthood, but children can also be characterized by their stage of development, including prenatal, infant, toddler, school-age, pre-pubescent, and teen or adolescent. RAND research on children covers the prenatal period to age 18 and spans multiple research areas, including health, education, criminal justice, and safety.
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The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act funds programs that curb crime among juvenile probationers and young at-risk offenders. This report summarizes, for fiscal year 2009-2010, state- and county-determined outcome measures from each program.
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Japanese translation of Support for Students Exposed to Trauma, a series of lessons aimed at reducing distress for middle school students who have been exposed to a traumatic life event.
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Shares the results of Safe Start Promising Approaches, a community-based initiative that implemented and evaluated promising and evidence-based programs to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence in 15 U.S. program sites.
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Child care studies that have examined links between teachers' qualifications and children's outcomes often ignore teachers' and children's transitions between classrooms at a center throughout the day and only take into account head teacher qualifications.
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This study examined whether an adolescent's self-identified race moderates the perceived effectiveness of anti-smoking messages.
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Investigates the multiple levels of influence on unprotected sex among homeless youth, including social network, individual, and partner level influences.
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The burden of maternal and infant deaths falls disproportionately on low income countries (LICs) and lower middle income countries (LMCs1) and among the poorest within these countries.
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Pediatric residents who support further reductions in work-hours believe reductions have positive effects on patient care, education, and quality of life.
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Homeless youth lack the traditional support networks of their housed peers, which increases their risk for poor health outcomes.
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The goal of this study is to better understand the longitudinal cross-lagged associations between popularity, assessed through self-rating and peer nominations, and alcohol use among middle school students.
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Children and adolescents are among the highest need populations in regards to mental health support, especially in low and middle income countries (LMIC).
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The objective of this paper is to delineate a set of standards for conducting benefit-cost analyses (BCAs) of early childhood programs.
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The effects of childhood physical abuse should be more actively investigated in clinical settings, especially those frequented by homeless women.
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In this paper, we examine the possibility that maternal smoking during pregnancy may set off a behavioral trajectory for the child that increases the likelihood of problem behaviors generally, of which smoking is one manifestation.
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The association between peer smoking and adolescent smoking initiation appears to be due to both peer selection and direct influence.
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Community practitioners can face difficulty in achieving outcomes demonstrated by prevention science.
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The CHIP expansions to children in higher income families were associated with limited uptake of public coverage.
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There is growing concern that climate change will lead to more frequent natural disasters that may adversely affect short- and long-term health outcomes in developing countries.
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Students who have experienced a traumatic event are at increased risk for academic, social, and emotional problems as a result of these experiences.
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The aim of this study was to examine the views of key stakeholders in health care payer organizations on the use of practice redesign strategies to improve the delivery of well-child care (WCC) to low-income children aged 0 to 3 years.
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