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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Children's Health"”.
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Fathers' Involvement and Children's Health
The relationship between involvement in children's health care, the moderating effects of parenting beliefs between involvement and child health status and use, and the mediating effects of family integrity in fathers' involvement and child health were examined in two separate studies. The first …
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Goal Conflict in the State Children's Health Insurance Program
… state-level empirical analysis of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) from 1999-2007. This program was selected for analysis because it is a program in which goal conflict has been readily manifest, particularly during the 2007 SCHIP reauthorization attempts. Goal conflict …
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African American Parents' Experiences in Their Children's Health Care Encounters
… disparities in African American child health may be the result of the intersection of many social determinants of health and other factors, such as health care relationships. A review of the literature revealed a gap in understanding of African Americans’ perceptions of care; and a gap …
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Changing land use and children's health in Mae Chaem, northern Thailand
Based on oral histories of agriculture and health in the Mae Chaem valley, northern Thailand, this work documents changing child health and medical practice since the 1950's and explores possible connections with increasing pesticide use. The research shows how local knowledge can help us …
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Family structure, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and child outcomes
… family structure and public policy are linked to health and developmental child outcomes. Each essay employs two or three waves of the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) as the primary data source. The first essay broadly investigates how family structure, including the less typical …
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State Implementation of the Children's Health Insurance Program: Analyses of Variation In Policy Adoption
… with a discussion of the comprehensive Clinton health plan and the origin of CHIP as a potential legacy of that national dialogue. While the Clinton plan did not achieve passage, its heightening of the issue of uninsurance, particularly in pediatric populations, appears to have set the tone for …
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Developing dialogic learning in children's health and social care teams through the use of person centered thinking
… teams delivering family support services to children and their families. The aim of this study was to explore and attain an understanding of how the use of these tools and processes would affect the process of organisational learning in the three settings. It is believed to be the first time …
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A Comparison of the Members of a Children's Health Club with Non-members by Use of a Standardized Health Test and Behavior Inventory
<p>Many methods of health education are being used today to help children and young people grow into healthy useful citizens. A health club is one such method which may be used to provide activities and health knowledge which may influence attitude and behavior.</p> <p>The purpose of this study was …
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A study to evaluate the nutritional habits of year 6 children, before and after a nutrition-based intervention: The CHANGE! (Children's Health, Activity, and Nutrition: Get Educated!) Project.
… which have been used to measure and determine healthy eating behaviours in UK school children but with varying degrees of success. The main aim of this thesis was to develop, pilot and evaluate the Children’s Health, Activity and Nutrition: Get Educated! (CHANGE!), a healthy eating curriculum …
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Ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų mityba, sveikatos ugdymas ir laisvalaikis /
The theoretical analysis of nutrition, health education, physical activity and leisure activities of children of pre-school age was performed in the paper. The quantitative research method chosen is a questionnaire survey aimed at evaluating and analyzing the nutrition, health education, physical …
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Health Attitudes, Knowledge And Literacy Of Primary Caregivers With Elementary School Children
… has indicated that physical activity and healthy eating in elementary school children are the exception rather than the norm. Increased attention to the rising rates of childhood obesity, coupled with the recognition that changes in the school environment are critical to reducing this …
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'Being on Top of It:' A Qualitative Examination of the Processes and Contexts Shaping Pediatric Caregiving among Low-Income, Young, African-American Fathers.
… relationship between father involvement and children's health outcomes (Stewart & Menning, 2009; Bronke-Tinkew, Horowitz, Scott, 2009; Yogman, Kidlon, & Earls, 1995; Lamb, 1997; Dubowitz, Black, & Cox, 2001; Chenning 2008). Recent years have also seen a growing interest in the impact of …
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Essays on Preschool Education, Family Economic Circumstances, and Child Outcomes
… and parental labor market outcomes child health and human capital accumulation. The first chapter studies the effects of attending state pre-kindergarten programs on child development and health up to eight years after preschool age. I find that the implementation of a pre-K program in a …
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Children's Convalescent Home, 1845-1970
… middle of the nineteenth century a new type of health care institution, the children's convalescent home, began to provide care to sick children. Institutional convalescence quickly became an established part of medical orthodoxy, particularly for urban working-class children. Convalescent homes …
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Relationship satisfaction and mental health of parents of children with autism: A comparison of autism, ADHD, and normative children
… the relationship satisfaction and mental health of parents of children diagnosed with Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) to parents of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and parents of normative children. The analytical …
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A therapeutic landscape created by the children's Comprehensive Health Investment Project of the Roanoke Valley
… States, political and social attention to child health care remains insufficient, as it has for decades, especially that which serves the needs of low-income families. In response to this widespread negligence, many communities around the country have developed innovative programs to meet the …
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Predictors of Developmental Screenings for Young Children
… examines the usefulness of the New Model of Children's Health and its Influences for the identification of predictors for health service effectiveness. Health service effectiveness is measured by probability estimations of whether young children receive formal or informal developmental …
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The Color of Marginalization: Painting the Picture of Race and Public Policy in American States
… Unemployment Insurance (UI) and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This study examines whether states with minority populations greater than the national average have public policies that are more restrictive than states with minority populations at or below their …
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The Effects Of Anxiety and Depression on Children's Utilization of Medical Health Care Services
… between childhood anxiety and depression and children's rate of medical care utilization. Additionally, the model examined considered family and parental factors (family conflict, parental anxiety, parental depression, and parental somatization) as well as children's level of negative …
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GUARANTEE OF CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING THROUGH DEVELOPMENT OF AN EFFECTIVE FAMILY STRENGTHENING SYSTEM IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
In 2012, 10,887 children resided in state-run residential care institutions in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Out of them, more than 80 percent were children whose parents were alive and known to the authorities, but who have been deprived of parental rights. Institutionalization negatively impacts …
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