This AJPH editorial focuses on the importance of screening patients for food insecurity in clinical settings using the Hunger Vital Sign, and the evidence-based household-level interventions that can alleviate the […]
It should go without saying that no child deserves to go hungry. But with the House of Representatives’ recent vote to cut $150 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program […]
Food insecurity, defined by the US Department of Agriculture as “lack of consistent access to enough healthy food for an active healthy life,” is related to many adverse physical and […]
During the last 20 years, low-income families have had their incomes plateau or decline as their housing costs soared. Public aid has not been expanded to meet the growing need: […]
On October 20th, 2017, Children’s HealthWatch signed on to a letter from Health Care to All addressing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In the letter, the undersigned […]
As pediatricians, public health researchers, and child health and policy experts with the non-partisan organization Children’s HealthWatch, we urge members of Congress to ensure sufficient federal funding for programs that […]
On September 25, 2017, Children’s HealthWatch wrote a letter to Chairman Hatch and Ranking Member Wyden of the Senate Committee on Finance urging them to oppose the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson proposal and […]
Introduction This study examined how mothers’ Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) relate to their children’s developmental risk and assessed how the association is mediated through mothers’ depressive symptoms and fair/poor health. […]
On September 19, 2017, Allison Bovell-Ammon, Children’s HealthWatch Deputy Director of Policy Strategy, submitted testimony to the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development in support of House Bill 2365 […]
Stephanie Sakho believes that people who work should have fuller refrigerators than she does. The divorced, certified nursing assistant from Southwest Philadelphia puts in 40 hours a week. But even […]