Child abuse and maltreatment is a silent and hidden morbidity and mortality issue today. A new report has shed light on this taboo subject, the dramatic statistics we have compared to other countries and the difference domestically between states. Currently, the child maltreatment death rate is 11 times higher than Italy’s and 3 times higher […]
Category: Children’s Health
Drink your Milk! A History of USDA Guidelines
With Thanksgiving behind us and having eaten our filling, let’s take a look at the history of the U.S. government’s dietary guidelines. To reflect the time period and new knowledge, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) releases new messages about what we should eat more of and eat less of. In the 1800’s Dr. […]
Health Disparities and Children in Rural Areas
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has released a report on U.S. rural children and their health, called The Health and Well-Being of Children in Rural Areas: A Portrait of the Nation 2007. Compared to urban areas, children living in rural locations are more likely to face adverse health outcomes. The study uses parental responses from […]
Videos available from May 2011 Symposium on Children’s Mental Health
2011 Public Health Symposium on Early Childhood Mental Health Translating the science of early experiences into culturally informed policy and practice Keynote Speakers included: Robert Anda, MD, MS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atum Azzahir, Powderhorn/Phillips Cultural Wellness Center Diane Benjamin, MPH, FrameWorks Institute Ed Ehlinger, MD, MS, Commissioner of Health, Minnesota Megan Gunnar, […]
Child Health Day
This past October 3, 2011 celebrated the 83rd annual Child Health Day. On this day, we in the Maternal and Child Health field are reminded of the importance of keeping our nation’s children healthy in order to help them live fulfilling lives. President Calvin Coolidge was the first president to proclaim the day. For more […]
Public Health Symposium – May 2011
The Center for Leadership in Maternal and Child Public Health, in partnership with the Center for Excellence in Children’s Mental Health, the Human Capital Research Collaborative and the Minnesota Community Foundation Project for Babies, is pleased to announce the 2011 Public Health Symposium on Promoting Early Childhood Mental Health: Translating the science of early experiences […]
Guest post: Nicole Steffens on AMCHP
First year MCH student Nicole Steffens tells us about her experience at AMCHP this year: Adolescent health and public health frameworks, such as the life course model, framed the majority of my experience at AMCHP this year. On Saturday, the Preconception Health Symposium covered various states’ strategies of introducing a preconception framework into state health […]
Andy Goodman on Storytelling
One of my favorite sessions from this year’s AMCHP conference:
U of MN School of Public Health alum lifts Minneapolis youth out of street crime and into more promising lives
Emergency physician Dave Dvorak goes beyond ‘treat and street’ to stop the cycle of violence for Minneapolis kids. A victim of child abuse who ends up in the emergency department would never be treated and sent back to a violent environment without some sort of intervention. But all too often that’s exactly what happens when […]
The “individual mandate” and health reform: small steps, big challenges
Here on campus, many of us have spent the past few weeks cramming. Cramming for an epidemiology final. Cramming one more get-together with friends on an impossibly full calendar. Maybe cramming one more piece of turkey onto a plate piled high with holiday food. We missed a lot of things during these past few weeks […]
You’re getting your flu shot… Right?
With flu season upon us, Adam Ruban’s piece for NPR hit a nerve for this reader. As Ruban notes, “tens of millions” of expired H1N1 vaccine were destroyed this past summer — meaning that millions of Americans decided to forgo vaccination and take their chances with a potentially deadly flu strand. According to the CDC, […]
Public health in Alaska: some thoughts
Greetings, MCH readers! Laura Andersen here, a master’s student at the University of Minnesota’s Maternal and Child Health program. I’m writing you from Alaska, where I am currently about halfway through one of the most interesting internships I’ve ever held – at the State of Alaska’s Section of Women’s, Children’s, and Family Health. Alaska is […]
New Publication: Health of Military Families
Hot off the presses! The Center for Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Public Health at the University of Minnesota is very pleased to announce the release of the summer 2010 issue of Healthy Generations on the Health of Military Families. Electronic of this (high resolution) issue and past issues are available to download at: […]
New resource on childhood mental health
The National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health has issued a new reference for public health professionals who work in childhood mental health. Free to download here, “A Public Health Approach to Children’s Mental Health” offers a comprehensive public health approach to children’s mental health. The guide links environmental supports, services, and interventions across […]
When is a chubby baby TOO chubby?
Posted by Clarence Jones Chubby Babies? Isn’t anything sacred? As a lifelong, card carrying member of the “Chubby Baby” club, I was recently surprised by the results of a new study published in February 2010 in the journal Clinical Pediatrics entitled “Identifying the “Tipping Point” Age for Overweight Pediatric Patients” that found over half of […]