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There are ∼443 000 children in child protective custody (ie, foster care) in the United States. Children in protective custody have more medical, behavioral, and developmental problems that require health care services than the general population. These health problems are compounded by poor information exchange impeding care coordination. Health care providers often do not know which of their patients are in protective custody and are not privy to the critical social history collected by child protective services, including placement history and maltreatment history. Meanwhile,…
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Importance Physical abuse and neglect affect a significant number of children in the United States. The 2014 Medicaid expansion, in which several states opted to expand their Medicaid programs, is associated with parental financial stability and access to mental health care.
Objective To determine whether Medicaid expansion is associated with changes in physical abuse and neglect rates.
Design, Setting, and Participants This ecological study used state-level National Child Abuse and Neglect…
El informe tiene como propósito presentar a las autoridades gubernamentales, no gubernamentales, agencias de cooperación internacional, medios de comunicación social, instituciones académicas, centros de investigación y población en general, los resultados obtenidos que muestran las condiciones de salud reproductiva, salud materno infantil y para los demás temas incluidos en la encuesta.
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In words, images, facts and figures, this report details the results that UNICEF achieved in 2018, together with its generous partners and supporters, a dedicated global workforce and children and young people themselves. It also profiles UNICEF’s 2018 advocacy campaigns focused on improving child survival and health, expanding early childhood development programmes, ending violence against children and supporting young migrants and refugees. And it highlights the ways in which UNICEF has lived its core values – care, respect, integrity, accountability and trust – by initiating…
United States Government Policy Statement
The United States Government envisions a world in which all children thrive within protective, loving families, free from deprivation, violence, and danger. Advancing Protection and Care for Children in Adversity: A U.S. Government Strategy for International Assistance (2019–2023) outlines the U.S. Government’s whole-of-government commitment and approach to investing in the development, care, dignity, and safety of the world’s most-vulnerable children and their families. U.S. Government par tners involved in implementing this Strategy include the U…
This literature review looks at the most current interventions on safe feeding practices for children with neuromotor disabilities who cannot feed themselves. The results will be used to create a tool to guide caregiver feeding practices in institutions. This tool could then assist professionals and caregivers working in institutions to identify and modify feeding practices that are potentially detrimental to a child’s health. In order to develop this observational tool that can be used internationally in a broad range of institutionalised settings, current evidence on interventions used to…
On Wednesday, May 29, 2019 Princeton University and the Brookings Institution released the latest volume of “The Future of Children”—a journal that promotes effective, evidence-based policies and programs for children, along with a policy brief titled “Achieving Broad-Scale Impacts for Social Programs.” This volume, titled “Universal Approaches to Promoting Healthy Development,” explores universal social programs designed to serve entire…
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In Argentina there are more than 9000 children without parental care due to prior abuse or neglect, assisted in foster child care facilities. The quality of care provided there impacts on the well-being of children and on multiple aspects of their adult life. Prevention in health in this setting has its own characteristics. Lack of policies that guarantee good practices, not only concerns to the exercise of the right to health established by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but also conditions the exercise of other rights. Care requires knowledge, skills and attitudes…
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This study focused on health promotion for children and young adults who live in residential care institutions in Portugal. It aims to understand how these institutions promote the health of the children and young adults who live there and secure their right to health. Multiple qualitative methods were used, including a bibliographic, documental and field research, as well as semi-structured interviews with the professionals of these institutions. The results showed that the institutions are concerned with the health promotion of children and young adults, promoting actions both…
HIV and AIDS continue to be a major contributing factor to vulnerability in Uganda. High HIV prevalence alongside economic challenges, internal migration, family breakdown and other illnesses have resulted in significant numbers of orphans and vulnerable children. These children have faced significant shocks and adversities, but have typically lacked access to a spectrum of supports and services. In addition, many have been unable to access the traditional mechanisms of extended family care that were available prior to the epidemic. In response to the wide-range of vulnerabilities faced by…