The Hidden Health Crisis of Eviction
Originally posted at BU.edu/SPH. Housing is a prescription for good health. Yet, as housing prices rise while wages remain stagnant, we know that millions of families and individuals are unable […]
Celebrating 20 Years with Friends, Supporters, and Champions
You may have heard our news this year: We’re turning 20! For the past two decades, we’ve provided policy-relevant research from the frontlines of pediatric care to improve the health […]
Child and Family Health Research and Policy in Coming Decades; Children’s HealthWatch’s Second Twenty Years
Children’s HealthWatch was born out of concerns that policies like the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reauthorization Act (PRWORA) of 1996, the so-called “welfare reform” law, instead of improving public […]
Children’s Healthwatch: The Data System for the Next 20 years
When Children’s HealthWatch started 20 years ago in 1998, we had a passionate mission: to measure the impact of the “new” policies, namely welfare reform, and their impact on the […]
The Power of One
“I am only one, but I am one. I can’t do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do.” -Edward Everett Hale This […]
20 Years of Informing Policies to Improve Child Health
Sitting in a conference room in Washington D.C. twenty years ago, my clinical colleagues, Drs. Diana Cutts, Patrick Casey, Carol Berkowitz, and Maureen Black, and I shared disturbing and tragic […]
Children with Special Health Care Needs and Disabilities: Solutions for Stable Homes
Summary of Findings All children need stable homes to thrive. High costs associated with raising a young child with special health care needs (SHCN) may strain a family’s budget and […]
A Stable, Affordable Home is a Prescription for Good Health
Originally posted on Opportunity Starts at Home As a doctor, I know that a stable, affordable home is a prescription for good health. This was recently instilled by my work […]
These are the key actions that successful anti-hunger and health care partnerships all share
Over the past several years, Health care systems and individual providers have increasingly recognized their role in identifying and addressing their patients’ food security needs. Efforts to screen for food […]