Sentences with phrase «national maternal child»

Order single copies of the report from the National Maternal Child Health Clearinghouse, 2070 Chain Bridge Road, Suite 450, Vienna, VA 22182; [phone].

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July 11, 2013 — In light of the recent attention on safe birthing practices and the newly released AAP policy statement on Planned Home Births, the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) hosted a national webinar,» A Home Birth Primer for MCH Programs,» on Thursday, July 11, 2013.

Breastfeeding is now included in the National Performance Measures of Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant partly because of the Roundtable's work.My «business» for the past 16 years has been to build the very foundation of «breastfeeding - related businesses:» starting the LC profession; establishing the credential; forming the professional association; and creating / changing health policy.

She campaigns for health equity and works on local and national legislation to improve maternal and child health and newborn care.

Nancy Holtzman, a pediatric nurse and national speaker on maternal child health topics, helps educate new moms and says to expect some change each month.

Contributors: Members of the writing committee for this paper were Peter Brocklehurst (professor of perinatal epidemiology, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midmaternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifchild health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and MidMaternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and MidwifChild Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery).

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal - Fetal Medicine Units Network.

Funding / Support: The Infant Feeding Practices Study II was funded by the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Women's Health, National Institutes of Health, and Maternal and Child Health Bureau in the US Department of Health and Human Services.

8 A national Healthy People 2020 objective to improve maternal and child health is to increase the number of employers with worksite lactation support programs.9 By being Mother - Friendly, businesses not only improve employee health, they also nurture the community that supplies their future employees and managers.

Area and individual maternal characteristics included country of residence, ward type, socioeconomic status, ethnicity (defined by Office for National Statistics guidelines and classified for this analysis as British / Irish white3 or of other ethnic origin), maternal age in years at cohort child's birth, level of education (attainment of qualification at GCSE grade G or above), parity (whether cohort child is first live birth), and lone parent status.

WHO recommends that national authorities in each country decide which infant feeding practice should be promoted by their maternal and child health services to best avoid HIV transmission from mother to child.

With a target of halving maternal and newborn deaths in facilities in 5 years, national governments from 9 first wave countries and partners are joining forces to establish a Network to improve the quality of care provided to mothers, newborns and children.

Ideally, an intersectoral team — including, for example, programme managers and staff responsible for nutrition and maternal and child health, academics, and national and international nongovernmental organizations — will use the tool as a basis for strengthening national policies and programmes that contribute to improved infant and young child feeding.

My name is Tahra Johnson and I work with the National Conference of State Legislatures in the Maternal and Child Health Program.

The impact of infant feeding on child and maternal health is well documented, but the impact on the national economy is less well understood.

She's active in the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, lectures for the Texas Department of State Health Services on lactation and maternal health, and serves as one of the co-physician leads for the National Institute for Children's Health Quality / Texas Breastfeeding Learning Collaborative.

In 1992, in response to epidemiologic reports from Europe and Australia, the AAP recommended that infants be placed for sleep in a nonprone position as a strategy for reducing the risk of SIDS.9 The «Back to Sleep» campaign was initiated in 1994 under the leadership of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development as a joint effort of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, the AAP, the SIDS Alliance (now First Candle), and the Association of SIDS and Infant Mortality Programs.10 The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development began conducting national surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommeNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development as a joint effort of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, the AAP, the SIDS Alliance (now First Candle), and the Association of SIDS and Infant Mortality Programs.10 The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development began conducting national surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommeNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development began conducting national surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommenational surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommendation.

ANMS, Austin New Mothers Study; GWG, gestational weight gain; IFPS, Infant Feeding Practices Study; NMIHS, National Maternal and Infant Health Survey; NR, not reported; PIN, Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition Study; PNSS, Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System; pp, postpartum; PPWR, postpartum weight retention; PRAMS, Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System; SES, socioeconomic status; WIC, Women, Infants and Children Food and Nutrition Services.

Therefore, the target audience includes national and local public health policy - makers, implementers and managers of maternal and child health programmes, health care facility managers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), professional societies involved in the planning and management of maternal and child health services, health care professionals (including nurses, midwives, general medical practitioners and obstetricians) and academic staff involved in training health care professionals.

To achieve the Comprehensive Implementation Plan on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition's target on exclusive breastfeeding, it is important to strengthen the adoption, monitoring and enforcement of national legislation in full compliance with the International Code of Marketing of Breast - milk Substitutes and all relevant subsequent World Health Assembly Resolutions (Code).

The rates of maternal, infant, child, and under - five mortalities have reduced drastically under the National Democratic Congress - led government, President John Dramani Mahama has said.

According to him, the resources used in developing the country under President John Agyekum Kufour, which he said totalled GHS20 billion, helped the party to facilitate the Capitation Grant, National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), School Feeding Programme, free Metro Mass bus rides for school children, National Health Insurance, free maternal care, and the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme, amongst others.

The ongoing review process of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) set in motion late last year by President John Mahama, has tabled a proposal that the scheme be restricted to a compulsory primary healthcare and maternal and child healthcare provision.

To better understand the contributing factors that lead to high rates of infant mortality in the South, researchers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services» Maternal and Child Health Bureau analyzed the most recent National Center for Health Statistics Period Linked Birth / Infant Death Data Files from 2007 - 2009.

According to Professor Jun Zhu from the National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance in Sichuan, China, one of the study's lead authors, «Our findings show that since 1970, child deaths in China have fallen far more quickly than expected, at the country, province and county lChild Health Surveillance in Sichuan, China, one of the study's lead authors, «Our findings show that since 1970, child deaths in China have fallen far more quickly than expected, at the country, province and county lchild deaths in China have fallen far more quickly than expected, at the country, province and county level.

The paper records the considerable efforts being made in the health sector, with national and local governments investing in targeted disease control programmes and the National Health Mission focusing on maternal and childnational and local governments investing in targeted disease control programmes and the National Health Mission focusing on maternal and childNational Health Mission focusing on maternal and child health.

ONE - PARENT SAMPLE SET PARENTAL GUIDANCE RULES: Maternally methylated (red dots) and paternally methylated (blue dots) regions across the human autosomal chromosomes, based on studies of uniparental disomy samplesGENOME RES, 24:554 - 69, 2014 RESEARCHERS Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Division Chief, Department of Maternal - Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan; David Monk, Principal Investigator, Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research ORGANISM Human METHODS Bisulfite - seq; bisulfite - chip Methylation is typically associated with the silencing of the nonexpressed allele, making it a convenient marker for imprinted genes, though it's possible for patterns of differential methylation to exist in tissues where both alleles are expressed.

Hazra is chief of the NIH's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's maternal and pediatric infectious disease division.

Ganz is backed up by a selection of electrifying performances that bring other infamous names of the period to life including Matthes as an appropriately gaunt, quietly terrifying Joseph Goebbels and Harfouch as Goebbel's wife Magda whose maternal tenderness disturbingly jars with her refusal to let her children grow up in a world without National Socialism.

This new cooperative agreement has been awarded to the American Academy of Pediatrics in collaboration with Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development, National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center, Education Development Center, Inc., and Health Care Institute at the University of California Los Angeles.

According to The National Council on the Developing Child Working Paper on Maternal Depression, upwards of 20 percent of mothers suffer from feeling depressed at some time during their lives — and often when their children are still of a young age.

Of the children in our sample, 13 % were identified as bullies, which is similar to a recent national estimate of prevalence of 19 %.8 We therefore conclude that the maternal report of bullying is a reasonable and informative assessment of true bullying behavior.

The National Center for Children in Poverty has a document entitled «Reducing Maternal Depression and Its Impact on Young Children» (January 2008) that is an excellent source for pediatricians and AAP state chapters.

Therefore, in addition to basic demographic variables (eg, maternal education, age) the investigators included variables from the national data set that they believed to be «proxies» for stress (eg, number of moves in past 2 years, number of children in the home, receiving public assistance) and social isolation (eg, number of adults in the home).

Dr Warren has received research support from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the National Science Foundation, and the AHRQ; and Dr Veenstra - VanderWeele has received research support from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the AHRQ.

To examine correlates of maternal depressive symptoms in a diverse, national sample of mothers whose kindergarten - aged children attended a Head Start program.

Despite the negative effect maternal depression can have on children, earlier studies in this area have focused on smaller samples typically collected within 1 site or community.3, 8,20 The purpose of this multisite, cross-sectional study of 5820 children who attended a Head Start program and their families was to describe key aspects of the family environment and demographic factors related to maternal depressive symptoms in a diverse national sample of low - income families whose children attended Head Start as preschoolers and were attending kindergarten at the time of the interview.

A child's daily TV - viewing time was obtained from the maternal response to 2 questions on the survey that were adapted from those used in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.24 The 2 questions on our survey were as follows: (1) «Think for a moment about a typical weekday for your family in the last month.

The prevalence of maternal depressive symptoms reported by screening this large national sample of indigent mothers interviewed between 1992 and 1993 is similar to the prevalence reported for low - income mothers of young children at a Baltimore pediatric primary care clinic in 1984 (41 % vs 35 %, respectively).8 In addition, the extent of family poverty in this study has a «dose - response» association with maternal depressive symptoms that is similar to that reported in another (smaller) national sample from the 1990s.15 In both studies, as well as this study, mothers with lower incomes reported higher levels of depressive symptoms.

Maternal depression is a common, important national problem for low - income mothers of preschool and school - aged children.

This toolbox is an online resource for Maternal and Child Health researchers, academics, practitioners, policy advocates, and others in the field to share information, innovative strategies, and tools to integrate the Life Course Perspective into MCH work at the local, state, and national levels.

According to The National Council on the Developing Child Working Paper on Maternal Depression, upwards of 20 percen...

Prominent health care provider associations and health advocacy organizations weighed in with their opposition, including the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the National Association of Community Health Centers, the American Public Health Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs.

This includes not just Medicaid, but the Title X program, Zika prevention programs, HIV prevention grants, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) grants to prevent sexual assault, the CDC National Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening program, maternal and child health programs, STD and infertility prevention grants, and more.

Lorenzo & Mayer (2014) National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Georgetown University

As noted by the Association for Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP), part of a national coalition of advocacy groups that worked to garner Congressional support, «Together these programs provide critical investments in the health of women, children and families.»

The third national report on key indicators covering maternal and child health, preventative health and chronic disease management showed improvements across the board, though some areas slipped including:

HV CoIIN is the first national learning collaborative dedicated to improving home visiting services and outcomes for low - income families with young children in four topic areas: child developmental surveillance and screening, maternal depression, breastfeeding extension and family engagement.

She has also served as chair of the National Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition and the Maternal Child Health (MCH) section of the American Public Health Association.

The IHDP was supported in its first 3 years by the RWJF; follow - up evaluations were supported by the Pew Charitable Trust, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the Maternal Child Health Bureau, with the RWJF.