Sentences with phrase «childhood health care use»

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Community - level promotion of Community Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (CIMCI) and Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health and Nutrition (MNCH / N); conducted home visits using Care Group Modela

To help reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics for common childhood illnesses, parents would benefit from fuller communication from their health care providers, suggests new research published in the National Communication Association's Journal of Applied Communication Research.

Clearly, the funds could be distributed more evenly across all schools, used for early childhood services or for augmenting children's health care, or aimed at improving postsecondary options for students from lower - income families.

Using the legislative mandates and the strong childhood mental health data that supported every child's need for timely permanence, the co-founders set out to hold the foster care system accountable.

Our goal is that these communities «establish community - specific capacity building, infrastructure development and comprehensive integrated early childhood care, health and education services in ways that can be used as models by other communities across the state» (State of New Mexico Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Application For Phase 2 Funding, 2012).

Mothers were eligible to participate if they did not require the use of an interpreter, and reported one or more of the following risk factors for poor maternal or child outcomes in their responses to routine standardised psychosocial and domestic violence screening conducted by midwives for every mother booking in to the local hospital for confinement: maternal age under 19 years; current probable distress (assessed as an Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) 17 score of 10 or more)(as a lower cut - off score was used than the antenatal validated cut - off score for depression, the term «distress» is used rather than «depression»; use of this cut - off to indicate those distressed approximated the subgroups labelled in other trials as «psychologically vulnerable» or as having «low psychological resources» 14); lack of emotional and practical support; late antenatal care (after 20 weeks gestation); major stressors in the past 12 months; current substance misuse; current or history of mental health problem or disorder; history of abuse in mother's own childhood; and history of domestic violence.

Nurses use an additional two «process» focus modules — video feedback and motivational interviewing strategies — to help parents instigate behavioural change.47 Nurses and the social care practitioners also help parents access early childhood health services, volunteer home visiting services and family support services; hold group activities specifically for intervention families; and link women into community activities, as needed.

The multiplicity of settings in which participants obtained health care in Denver and low rates of state - verified cases of child abuse and neglect in the target population made it impossible to use medical and child - protective - service records to assess obstetric, newborn, childhood - injury, and child maltreatment outcomes in the current trial.

These programs include the Nurse Family Partnership, 16,17 Healthy Families America, 18,19 Healthy Start, 20,21 Early Head Start, 22,23 the Comprehensive Child Development Program, 24 — 26 and Early Start.27, 28 All of these programs have been evaluated by using randomized control designs but findings from these trials have been mixed, with some programs showing benefits and others failing to show benefits.29, 30 In a recent review, Howard and Brooks - Gunn30 found that home - visiting programs had reported benefits for a number of outcomes, including child abuse, child health care, quality of home environment, parenting, parental depression, and childhood cognitive skills.

The overall objective is to assess the impact of numerous adverse childhood experiences on a variety of health behaviors and outcomes and health care use.23 The ACE Study was approved by the institutional review boards of Kaiser Permanente, Emory University, and the Office of Protection from Research Risks, National Institutes of Hhealth behaviors and outcomes and health care use.23 The ACE Study was approved by the institutional review boards of Kaiser Permanente, Emory University, and the Office of Protection from Research Risks, National Institutes of Hhealth care use.23 The ACE Study was approved by the institutional review boards of Kaiser Permanente, Emory University, and the Office of Protection from Research Risks, National Institutes of HealthHealth.

Health and community professionals can use the following in their individual work with children, as well as assisting early childhood education and care services and school staff and parents to support children.

Health and community professionals may also wish to use the eLearning course and resources in their work with early childhood education and care (ECEC) services and schools; for example, by directing educators or teachers to the site.

KidsMatter uses a risk and protective framework to focus on areas where schools and early childhood education and care (ECEC) services can influence children's mental health.

The website can be used to search a range of services in a geographical area including activities, libraries, community health services, government services, early childhood education and care services and schools, family support services and general and specialist health services.

Note: This guide has been adapted from the Australian Psychological Society's Building the APS RAP self - reflection exercise for members for use by professionals working in schools, early childhood education and care and health services.

KidsMatter Early Childhood works with early childhood education and care services to support the mental health and wellbeing of young children, their families and early childhood educators using a promotion, prevention and early intervention fChildhood works with early childhood education and care services to support the mental health and wellbeing of young children, their families and early childhood educators using a promotion, prevention and early intervention fchildhood education and care services to support the mental health and wellbeing of young children, their families and early childhood educators using a promotion, prevention and early intervention fchildhood educators using a promotion, prevention and early intervention framework.

Our resources to support children's mental health are designed to be downloaded and printed and can be used in any early childhood education and care service.

Health and community professionals may also wish to use the e-learning course and resources in their work with early childhood education and care (ECEC) services and schools; for example, by directing educators or teachers to the site.

A retrospective cohort study of 8613 adults who attended a primary care clinic in California completed a survey about childhood abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction; illicit drug use; and other health - related issues.

Specific limitations have been noted in the quality of care related to developmental and behavioral services for children in the first 3 years of life,4 - 7 particularly regarding gaps between recommended and actual care received.8, 9 In a national survey, only 23 % of 2017 parents of young children discussed discipline and early learning with their child's clinician, and over half wanted more information about these topics.4 In a survey of 1900 Medicaid - enrolled children ages 4 years and younger, 40 % of parents reported that their child's clinicians did not ask whether they had concerns about their child's development and well - being.10 Using the National Survey of Early Childhood Health, Halfon et al6 reported that 34 % of parents of 2068 children ages 4 to 35 months did not believe their child's clinicians always took time to understand their child's needs.

On Becoming Trauma - Informed: Role of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey in Tertiary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and the Association with Standard Measures of Impairment and Severity Abdul Rahman, MD, FRCPC; Andrea Perri, MSN; Avril Deegan, MSW; Jennifer Kuntz, MSW; David Cawthorpe, MSc, PhD To examine the clinical utility of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) survey as an index of trauma in a child and adolescent mental health care setting, descriptive, polychoric factor, and regression analyses were employed with cross-sectional ACE surveys (2833) and registration - linked data using past admissions (10,400) from November 2016 to March 2017 related to clinicalHealth Services and the Association with Standard Measures of Impairment and Severity Abdul Rahman, MD, FRCPC; Andrea Perri, MSN; Avril Deegan, MSW; Jennifer Kuntz, MSW; David Cawthorpe, MSc, PhD To examine the clinical utility of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) survey as an index of trauma in a child and adolescent mental health care setting, descriptive, polychoric factor, and regression analyses were employed with cross-sectional ACE surveys (2833) and registration - linked data using past admissions (10,400) from November 2016 to March 2017 related to clinicalhealth care setting, descriptive, polychoric factor, and regression analyses were employed with cross-sectional ACE surveys (2833) and registration - linked data using past admissions (10,400) from November 2016 to March 2017 related to clinical data.

A growing collection of evidence related to ACEs and other childhood stressors is available: ACEs have an impact on health and substance use, 2 mental health, 3 health care utilization, 4 psychotropic medication use, 5 and autoimmune disease.6 The overarching point is made: the impact of trauma in childhood is lasting.

It also may be used by other professionals involved in child abuse and neglect interventions, such as child protective services, mental health, law enforcement, health care, and early childhood professionals, to gain a better understanding of the role of educators in child protection.

She is also co-project director of two evaluations of home visiting programs — the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), which is assessing the federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, and MIHOPE - Strong Start, which is examining the effects of home visiting on birth outcomes and maternal and infant health care use.

Early childhood health and development trajectories for these children will be constructed via linkage to a range of administrative data sets relating to birth outcomes, congenital conditions, hospital admissions, emergency department presentations, receipt of ambulatory mental healthcare services, use of general practitioner services, contact with child protection and out - of - home care services, receipt of income assistance and fact of death.

Describes Colorado's work to promote early childhood social and emotional development through the use of mental health consultants in schools and child care programs.

My expertise in the attachment system comes from both my background in early childhood mental health, which is the period of active formative processes in the attachment system (although we use the patterns of the attachment system throughout our lives), and from also applying this attachment - related information directly with children in the foster care system who were the victims of parental abuse and neglect that created a variety of severe distortions with their attachment system.

Use of an infant / early childhood mental health specialist in primary care settings at various levels (e.g., co-location, collaboration, integration)

Specifically, the ACE Study model relies strongly on the idea that adverse childhood experiences create a burden of psychological stress that changes behavior, cognitions, emotions, and physical functions in ways that promote subsequent health problems and illness.22 Among the hypothesized pathways, adverse childhood experiences lead to depression and posttraumatic stress disorder, which in turn can lead to substance abuse, sleep disorders, inactivity, immunosuppression, inflammatory responses, and inconsistent health care use, possibly leading to other medical conditions later in life.23, 24 Therefore, childhood behavioral and emotional symptoms very likely represent a crucial mediator linking adverse childhood experiences and the longer term health - related problems found in the ACE substudies.

Using data from the NLSY and structural equation models, we have constructed five latent factors (cognitive stimulation, parenting style, physical environment, child's ill health at birth, and ill health in childhood) and have allowed these factors, along with child care, to mediate the effects of poverty and other exogenous variables.

Although this finding was not consistent with our predictions, it may suggest that at least during early childhood, the greater use of behavioral control may have a protective effect on health, resulting in lower rates of ambulatory care (i.e., nonemergency care and ER visits).