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National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Board on Children and Families. – 1996
The complexity and constantly changing dimensions of national discussions about health care reform hold the risk that special problems of children and pregnant women will be overlooked. This monograph summarizes two workshops which discussed the important health policy issues presented by children and pregnant women that should be addressed by any…
Descriptors: Child Health, Children, Health Care Costs, Health Insurance
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Fairview Health Services. – 1997
Prepared by the Maternal and Newborn Services staff at a health care system affiliated with the University of Minnesota, this book is designed as several resources in one, encompassing pregnancy, childbirth, infant care, child development, baby keepsakes, medical records, and journal-keeping. The book provides authoritative, up-to-date information…
Descriptors: Birth, Child Development, Child Health, Child Rearing
Download full textHawes, Hugh, Ed.; Scotchmer, Christine, Ed. – 1993
This book is designed for those who work with children and who believe that children, in schools and as family members, need to be considered partners in spreading health messages as well as benefiting from them. It contains the messages included in "Facts for Life," a handbook that presents practical, low-cost ways of protecting…
Descriptors: Birth, Breastfeeding, Child Health, Child Safety
Larner, Mary, Ed.; And Others – 1992
In the early 1980s, the Ford Foundation launched a grants program called Child Survival/A Fair Start for Children (CS/FS) that addressed issues related to birth and infant health and development among families that were poor and underserved by traditional human services. This book reports on each of seven CS/FS projects, describing the concerns…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Welfare, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention
Hamburg, David A. – 1994
This book argues that many U.S. children are at risk because of poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, poor health, illiteracy, racial prejudice, and the eruption of unprecedented levels of violence both in inner cities and across the country. It provides a comprehensive overview of the crises young children and adolescents face and the decisions that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, At Risk Persons, Child Development
Vermont Children's Forum, Montpelier. – 1996
This Kids Count report details statewide trends in the well-being of Vermont's children. The statistical portrait is based on 30 indicators of well-being: (1) population; (2) racial and ethnic diversity; (3) median family income; (4) working mothers; (5) single-parent families; (6) child poverty; (7) children receiving ANFC; (8) children receiving…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse
Halfon, Neal, Ed.; McLearn, Kathryn Taaffe, Ed.; Schuster, Mark A., Ed. – 2002
In the wake of intense national interest in very young children, this volume presents an examination of the findings of the Commonwealth Survey of Parents with Young Children, as analyzed by scholars from diverse disciplines. What emerges from this analysis is a picture of the complex forces that influence families and child rearing in the…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Birth, Breastfeeding, Child Development
Feinberg, Sandra; And Others – 1995
This annotated bibliography on parenting resources is designed to assist parents and those who work with them to locate books on the many and complex topics that affect family life. The materials included encompass the various stages of parenting, from pregnancy and childbirth through the parenting of adult children. The many topics covered…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Children, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Development
