Sentences with phrase «maternal child family»

Nick Claxton — Program Director, Maternal Child Family Health Division, Philadelphia Department of Public Health

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If we can provide access to contraceptives, moms can go back to work to combat extreme poverty; kids can stay in school; families can feed their children; and we can improve maternal and child mortality outcomes.

Boethius... you didn't mention a Mother... I'm curious whether (like myself), you've been both a mother and father to yr children... I have a feeling that it's the maternal ties (iin my case, overly compensated) that are most difficult to break, especially seen in single parent (male) families.

Engage fathers in existing family support, child development and maternal / child health programmes.

While low - income, ethnic - minority families displayed less sensitivity overall to their children, positive father involvement and close mother - father relationships were especially beneficial in the case of maternal risk.

«I think there are several implications about thinking of self - regulation in this way and fostering child development — particularly for families in poverty,» said Blair, «and [about] the idea that maternal sensitivity and parenting behavior is changeable» (Blair et al., 2011).

My friend, pediatric physical therapist Wendi McKenna, has put together an online summit of 20 child development, maternal, and family health experts — including me — to -LSB-...]

By promoting health equity, which will aid in the reduction of barriers and inequality in maternal and child health for women of color in the D.C. Metro Area, we aim to foster healthy individuals, healthy families and healthy communities.

«(S) erious conflict in the relationship with the mother, leading to maternal gateclosing; repartnering and responsibilities to children in the new family; physical distance; feelings of disenfranchisement by the legal system; and limited financial resources.

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The legislature finds that breast - feeding a baby is an important and basic act of nurture that must be encouraged in the interests of maternal and child health and family values.

As a mother and a nurse with 20 years experience in maternal child field including L & D postpartum and nursery as well, my heart goes out to you and your family.

Sometimes progress in raising the degree of maternal and child health means moving backwards, to the participation of a whole village in raising a child, rather than forward to the increasingly socially isolated nuclear family.

While many families have extremely positive experiences after adopting the younger child, there are many families who try very hard to force the child into their arms for comfort and nurturing when the child's innate capabilities for this type of infant - maternal attachment are not yet formed.

My midwife Breda was an extremely maternal Irish woman, who grew up in a family with 13 children.

Dottie has spent her entire career working in maternal child health and has long been an advocate for children and their families.

Kathleen's heart has always been in service to children and families, beginning her career in a hospital setting where most of her time was spent in maternal child health and pediatrics, including work as the coordinator of the hospital's child protection team.

Her interest and love for supporting nursing mothers and their families to meet their own breastfeeding goals started while she was a Maternal Child Health Nurse with the Visiting Nurse Association of of Boston in 2000.

Optimal breastfeeding for the first 2 years of life is the single most effective intervention to prevent child deaths worldwide.1 Breastfeeding saves children's lives, supports their growth and development, preventsmalnutrition, ensures food security for infants, protects maternal and child health, reduces financial pressure on families, supports loving relationships and increases educational attainment.

She is committed to supporting families, and training maternal child health professionals on culturally appropriate breastfeeding support.

Lactation consultants around the world are transforming world health by helping families build a solid foundation for maternal and child health, gender equality and sustainable health care.

Evidence - Based Model Crosswalk to Benchmarks: Model Alignment With Benchmark (PDF - 641 KB) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services & Health Resources and Services Administration (2011) Describes the Affordable Care Act Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV), and how the act responds, through evidence - based home visiting programs, to diverse needs of children and families in at - risk communities through collaboration at the Federal, State, and community levels.

Her Kindred Fireside Chats and interviews with conscious living leaders, like Deepak Chopra, MD; Paul Ray, PhD; Marilyn Schlitz, PhD; Thom Hartmann; Joseph Chilton Pearce and others, continue to forge the new story of holistic family wellness at a time when the United States ranks dead last for infant, child and maternal wellness among its 40 industrial nation peers.

For example, it is unclear whether children do better because of improved caregiving, increased maternal personal resources, improved family functioning, expanded economic resources, or all of the above.

Although some programs have produced evidence of enduring, long - term family, maternal, and child outcomes, other broadly disseminated programs have not demonstrated detectable effects.

One randomized controlled trial comparing home - visited families with control participants who received other community services found a statistically significant difference in mean depressive symptoms at two years post-enrollment, but this contrast was nonsignificant at three years post - enrollment.15 A second study of Early Head Start found no differences in depressive symptoms between intervention and control group participants post-intervention, although a difference was detected at a longer - term follow - up prior to children's enrollment in kindergarten.10 Other randomized controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal depressive symptoms.12, 16,17

In the US, the Obama administration has funded a range of initiatives that require the use of evidence - based strategies in areas such as teen pregnancy prevention, home visiting, education and workforce innovation.2, 3 In the field of home visiting, an increasing number of programs have been rigorously evaluated and have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in outcome domains such as parenting, maternal and child health, child development and school readiness, reductions in child maltreatment, and family economic self - sufficiency.4, 5,6

The ACF Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) awarded the TEI contract to provide technical assistance, leadership, and support to promote excellence in community - based research and evaluation of MIECHV initiatives that serve American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) children and families through the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program.

In many European countries, home visiting is a routine part of maternal and child health care, although the practice is less established in Canada and the United States.7 Over the past 30 years, one of the most promising prevention strategies targeted at decreasing rates of child maltreatment has been to provide health services, parenting education, and social support to pregnant women and families with young children in their own homes.

The study includes: an analysis of the state needs assessments that were provided in the state MIECHV applications and an effectiveness study that includes an impact analysis to measure what difference home visiting programs make for the at - risk families they serve in areas such as prenatal, maternal, and newborn health; child development; parenting; domestic violence; and referrals and service coordination.

But research has shown significant positive outcomes for vulnerable families enrolled in home visiting, including improved maternal, newborn, and infant health, better educational attainment for moms, improved school readiness, and reduced child abuse.

This free membership is being offered to students of diversity and to those students who are pursuing certificates, certifications, and degrees in the fields related to maternal / child and family studies: doulas, childbirth educators, somatic healing, midwifery, nursing, child development, medicine, pediatrics, sociology, mental health, psychology, public health and related fields.

The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program responds to the diverse needs of children and families in at - risk communities and is required to carry out a continuous program of research and evaluation activities in order to increase knowledge about the implementation and effectiveness of home visiting programs.

This time - limited learning activity targets for improvement four major areas of concern to the federal home visiting program, breast feeding, maternal well - being, child development and family engagement.

Our board and advisory committee, volunteers and consultants are maternal - child health experts with training and experience in family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, maternal mental health, perinatal psychology, maternity and newborn nursing, midwifery, lactation support, public health, health promotion, doula support and childbirth education.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

These include teenage motherhood, maternal educational under - achievement, poverty, parental antisocial behaviour and other mental - health problems, prenatal stress and maternal health, family violence, child abuse and parenting difficulties.

Research led by Barry M. Lester, PhD, director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, found the single greatest contributor to long - term neurobehavioral development in preterm infants is maternal involvement — and that a single - family room NICU allows for the greatest and most immediate opportunities for maternal involvement.

Recognizing the prevalence (1 in 7 women will suffer) and serious implications of untreated maternal mental health disorders for mothers, children, families, and society more generally, the California Legislative Women's Caucus put forth Assembly Concurrent Resolution (ACR) 148 which was passed in 2014.

Adjusted for child's age and sex, country, birth weight, mother's education and income, father's education and income, maternal BMI, and family history of diabetes.

The results of this study support the hypothesis that, for full - term children, breast - feeding allows better development of stereoacuity than does formula feeding, independent of the family's socioeconomic status and the maternal diet in pregnancy.

The New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD)-- the state grantee of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program — is committed to supporting home visiting...

The Canadian Foreign Minister, Lawrence Cannon, has announced that its maternal and child health initiative, due to be launched at the G8 summit in June, will not address family planning «in any way shape or form» on the erroneous grounds that family planning is not needed to save lives.

As a champion for New York's children and families, Governor Cuomo recognizes the critical difference skillful, prompt and compassionate care can mean for women with maternal depression, which affects as many as one in seven mothers nationally.

«If family planning reduces the high - risk, high - parity women who have had many children and are at higher risk of death, then certainly it should reduce the maternal mortality ratio,» Black says.

A new study indicates that a child's temperament may be influenced by maternal postpartum depression, maternal sensitivity, and family functioning.

Given the trend toward women having children later in life, health officials should emphasize improvements in prenatal care, including family planning education and increased training of birth attendants to manage and encourage deliveries for women of advanced maternal age at health - care facilities.

Corresponding author Matthew A. Broom, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics at Saint Louis University and SLUCare physician at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center, formed the Happy Mothers, Healthy Families program in 2013 with a three - year, $ 316,140 grant from the Maternal Child and Family Health Coalition (MCHFC).

After accounting for children's age, parental education levels, household income, family structure and family health outcomes such as maternal mental health, and type of health insurance used, the differences remained.

These studies considered several family factors, including maternal and paternal parenting, parent - child relationship and marital conflict.