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Maternal and Child Health Resources

See also Public Health Library Research Guide no. 8: Family Planning/Contraception/Abortion

See also Reproductive Health Resources.

Organizations and Agencies

Administration for Children and Families (DHHS)

Includes information on head Start and many other programs.

Alan Guttmacher Institute

AGI focuses on reproductive health research, policy analysis, and public education. AGI publishes many reports and news briefs online, including State Policies in Brief.

Annie E. Casey Foundation

The Right Start Online: "This web site and Working Paper (The Right Start for America's Newborns: A Decade of City and State Trends (1990-1999)) update previous Right Start reports by providing a text and data update focused on cities and the nation as a whole. Updated data are available as profiles, line graphs, national maps, and rankings for the nation's 50 largest cities (Plus 5 additional cities in which the Annie E. Casey Foundation has made a long-term investment) and the 50 states through 2000."

Kids Count Data Book Online

The Kids Count project tracks the health status of children in the United States. Some of the indicators tracked include:

Child Death Rate

Infant Mortality Rate

Juvenile Crime Arrest Rate

Median Income of Families With Children

Percent Low Birth-Weight Babies

Percent of 2-Year-Olds Who Were Immunized

Percent of Children in Poverty

Percent of Low-Income Children Without Health Insurance

Percent of Families With Children headed by a Single Parent

Percent of Female-headed Families Receiving Child Support or Alimony

Data is provided nationally and state-by-state. All data is available from an easy-to-use, powerful online database that allows you to generate custom graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles. You can also download the entire Kids Count data set as delimited text files.

California Healthy Kids Resource Center

At this site, one may "access reviewed health education material for free loan, research summaries, school health laws, programs, and consultant servcies, and links to reviewed health education websites". Subjects covered include HIV/AIDS education, nutrition education, alcohol and drug abuse prevention, mental health, and more. A newsletter is also available.

Child Trends

"Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to studying children, youth, and families through research, data collection, and data analyses . . . Child Trends gathers data on the major indicators of children's health and well-being, analyzes trends in these data over time, and works to develop new or improved indicators of child and family well-being."

Child Trends DataBank

Contains data on trends, national goals, and more on each of over 80 indicators in six broad categories: health, social and emotional development, income, assets and work, education and skills, demographics, and family and community.

Guide to Effective Programs for Children and Youth

"Child Trends has an extensive knowledge base about "programs that work" to enhance children's development. This Guide offers a way of presenting this knowledge in a user-friendly format for policy makers, program designers, and funders." The guide may be browsed by outcome, age, and developmental stage or by program category.

Children Now

Children Now is an advocacy group focusing on family, health, and media issues. Numerous publications are available online.

California County Data Book contains county-level statistics about California children's health, education, family economics and child welfare.

Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network (CYFERNet)

CYFERNet works to support community-based educational programs for children, youth, parents and families.

Children's Defense Fund

"CDF provides a strong, effective voice for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves." Information, data, and publications are avaliable on CDF's issues of concern: child care, child health, child welfare and mental health, violence prevention and youth development, and family income.

Children's Environmental Health Network

The Children's Environmental Health Network's purpose is to protect the health of children with regards to environmental hazards. A national effort, the Network concentrates on three areas - education, research, and policy. It provides an introduction to the field of child environmental health and provides access to reports resulting from symposia and conferences.

Children's Safety Network, National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Center

"CSN works with maternal and child health, public health, and other injury prevention practitioners to provide technical assistance and information, facilitate the implementation and evaluation of injury prevention programs, and conduct analytical and policy activities that improve the state-of-the-art of injury and violence prevention." Their site has injury prevention resources and publications, as well as data on injury related deaths and costs (at state and county levels).

ChildStats.gov

ChildStats.gov is the web site of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, which is made up of representatives from many federal agencies and departments. The web site "offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment,and education."

America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being is an annual report on the status of the nation's children, presenting 25 key indicators on critical aspects of children's lives. Every two years, a detailed report is produced, alternating with a brief report on the other years. Reports from 1997 to the present are available online.

Family Health International

An international non-profit group committed to helping people obtain access to family planning services and to preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. The site includes thousands of online publications, country profiles, and the journal Network

Family Health Outcomes Project (UC San Francisco)

FHOP works to develop or adapt standardized approaches to health outcomes monitoring; longitudinal tracking and unique client identification. FHOP provides technical assistance and training to state and local health jurisdictions, and also does research on the factors which impact maternal/child health outcomes. The site includes software downloads, reports, guidelines, and planning tools, and more.

Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization

Has information about vaccine preventable diseases and provides access to the full text quarterly newsletter, Immunization Forum (older issues were called Immunization Focus). Also provides access to the Vaccine Page, which provides access to up-to-the-minute news about vaccines and an annotated database of vaccine resources on the Internet.

March of Dimes

The four goals of the March of Dimes are to reduce birth defects, reduce infant mortality, reduce low birthweight, and increase the number of women who get prenatal care in the first trimester. Their site offers educational material, as well as summary national perinatal statistics.

The MCH Policy Research Center

"The MCH Policy Research Center is a health policy group that provides federal and state policymakers, public health officials, and provider and family organizations with analysis, objective research, and strategic guidance on financing and service delivery issues affecting children and adolescents, particularly those with special needs and those from low-income families." Their project areas and publications focus on Medicaid, managed care, health service delivery, provider capacity, and more.

National Adolescent Health Information Center (NAHIC)

NAHIC "is based within UCSF's Division of Adolescent Medicine. The overall goal of NAHIC is to improve the health of adolescents by serving as a national resource for adolescent health information and research and to assure the integration, synthesis, coordination and dissemination of adolescent health-related information." The site includes numerous publications, fact sheets, and an annotated links section.

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (Affiliated with the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University.)

Includes an Organizations Database of more than 2,000 MCH and related organizations, Annotated Bibliographies on Selected Topics in MCH, and selected full-text NCEMCH publications (PDF files).

NCEMCH Knowledge Paths

"NCEMCH's knowledge paths on maternal and child health-related topics contain selections of recent, high quality resources and tools for staying abreast of new developments and conducting further research. Components of a knowledge path include links to Web sites, electronic publications, databases, and discussion groups, and citations for journal articles and other print resources."

National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center, including an Oral Health Programs Database.

Bright Futures, a "national initiative to promote and improve the health and well-being of infants, children, and adolescents." Available publications include practice guidelines for nutrition, mental health, and more.

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Progress of Nations 2000

State of the World's Children 2004

"The State of the World’s Children 2004 focuses on the relationship of girls' education and development goals and the promise of Education For All." Published each year, this report also includes statistical tables on health, education, economic indicators, nutiriton, and more.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Administration for Children and Families

Has the latest information on screening guidelines as well as surveillance information and recent bibliographic citations for research publications funded by CDC. Also has statistics on child care, welfare caseloads, and more.

National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information

NCCANI was established by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974. Their web sit has fact sheets, statistics, prevention resources, a bibliographic database of over 32,000 records on child abuse and neglect, and a national organizations database.

CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program

Has the latest information on screening guidelines as well as surveillance information and recent bibliographic citations for research publications funded by CDC.

Health Care Financing Administration. Innovative State Strategies to Insure Children

"This database includes qualitative information collected from program, Medicaid, and maternal and child health directors of the following states: California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Washington."

Health Resources and Services Administration. Maternal and Child Health Bureau.

The MCHB's program areas include Title V, women and infants, child health and safety, children with special health care needs, and more.

Title V: A Snapshot of Maternal and Child Health 2000

"The Snapshot provides the most comprehensive picture to date of how the Title V Federal-State Partnership works and what is happening in each of the 59 States and jurisdictions. The Snapshot includes Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant to States program information, a listing of the Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS) and other Federal MCH grants to each State and jurisdiction."

Celebrating 65 Years of Title V: The Maternal and Child Health Program (2001)

This report chronicles the development and evolution of Title V since its inception in 1935 to the present. It includes annual block grant figures for each state. (PDF file)

US EPA Office of Children's Health Protection

The EPA Children's Environmental Health Yearbook (June 1998)

The EPA Children's Environmental Health Yearbook Supplement (August 2000)

America's Children and the Environment: A First View of Available Measures (December 2000)

America's Children and the Environment: Measures of Contaminants, body Burdens, and Illnesses (February 2003)

This report "brings together, in one place, quantitative information from a variety of sources to show trends in levels of environmental contaminants in air, water, food, and soil; concentrations of contaminants measured in the bodies of children and women; and childhood illnesses that may be influenced by exposure to environmental contaminants."

Publications and Databases

To search for journal articles on this topic, use the Online Indexes and Databases. To locate journals, use the Melvyl catalog, or the UC-eLinks Electronic Journals Search.

America's Children: Health Insurance and Access to Care (1998) (National Research Council and Institute of Medicine)

Full-text publication.

Chartbook on Children's Health Insurance Status (December 1998)

Provides information on insured and uninsured children in the U.S.

Children's health, 1996: health insurance, access to care, and health status. by Margaret E. Weigers, Robin M. Weinick, Joel W. Cohen. (Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 1998)

Environmental Health Legislation Database

Sponsored by the National Conference of State Legislatures, this database includes state legislation on such topics as asthma, pesticides, lead, mercury, and indoor air pollution. All entries include brief summaries of current legislation as well as status and bill number. It is searchable by topic, keyword, state, bill number, type of bill, and date.

Healthy Families Program, California

"The Healthy Families Program is a state and federal funded health coverage program for children with family incomes above the level eligible for no cost Medi-Cal and below 250% of the federal income guidelines."

National Data Analysis System (Child Welfare League of America)

"NDAS is the most comprehensive collection of child welfare and related data in the country, providing access to all states' child welfare and related data for the most recent years available. Users of NDAS can develop their own tables and graphs for a state or group of states in a single year or across years." Data topics include:

• Administrative data
• Child abuse and neglect
• Children's health
• Fiscal data
• Outcomes

and more. There is also a section highlighting Children of Color.

National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs Data Resource Center

Search data provided by The Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative. State Profiles are also provided. Also available are tips and tools for using this data, as well as data downloads.

PeriStats

"PeriStats is an interactive perinatal data resource providing maternal, infant and child health-related data at the state-level and for many indicators at the county-level. Data are also available for the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the United States." Tables may also be produced that compare the data to the United States as a whole, or to other states. From the March of Dimes, PeriStats uses data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including the National Center for Health Statistics, the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, and the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, the Health Care Financing Administration, the Health Resources Services Administration, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Governors Association, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the March of Dimes.

State of the World's Mothers 2004

"This year’s State of the World’s Mothers report focuses on the tens of millions of girls around the world who marry and have babies while they are still children themselves. The report recommends ways to help girls delay marriage and motherhood [and] also suggests programmatic and policy solutions to help child mothers and their babies survive and thrive." Also included is the Mothers’ Index, which presents statistics on indicators of women's and children's well-being. From Save the Children.

System Capacity for Adolescent Health Tool

This tool, developed by the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, is a set of assessment and discussion tools designed to assist state maternal and child health programs in assessing six areas of capacity to support effective state adolescent health programs.

Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation)

This annual report provides the policy community with comprehensive data on the well-being of children and youth. More than 80 indicators of well-being are examined in the five broad areas: Population, family, and neighborhood; Economic security; Health conditions and health care; Social development and behavioral health; and Education and achievement. Earlier editions are also available.

Understanding the Health Culture of Recent Immigrants to the United States: A Cross-Cultural Maternal Health Information Catalog

From the American Public Health Association, this catalog "analyzes the unique maternal health cultures of three main regions of the world from which immigrants to the U.S. frequently come in terms of: (1) relevant country-of-origin information that can be predictors of maternal health, (2) health status and risks of recent immigrant women associated with biological, cultural, and lifestyle susceptibility, (3) maternal health culture, including folk practices and health belief systems, and (4) culture's effect on the utilization of maternal health services in the U.S."

When Teens Have Sex: Issues and Trends (A KIDS COUNT Special Report, 1998)

This report discusses the impact of U.S. teen pregnancy and provides a series of recommendations to reduce teen pregnancy. It also provides key indicators of detailed state adolescent health and sexual behavior.

The World's Youth 2000

This report, published by the Population Reference Bureau, provides worldwide regional and national data on population, education, and health, with a special focus on sexual and reproductive health.

Youth Indicators 1996 : Trends in the Well-Being of American Youth (U.S. Department of Education)

Statistical compilation of demographic, socioeconomic, educational, health, and other data on young people.

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)

"The YRBS is a national school-based survey conducted biennially to assess the prevalence of health risk behaviors among high school students." Questionnaires, fact sheets, and some results are available from the survey.

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