Pediatrics
Tech 'glitch' is causing kids to lose Medicaid coverage
A Medicaid "glitch" is removing health care coverage for potentially millions of children, U.S. health officials warned Wednesday.
Aug 31, 2023
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News tagged with family income
Medical economics
Caregiving a concern as Hispanic community in U.S. ages faster
Caregiving has been part of María Aranda's life since she was a young girl, when her Puerto Rican grandmother and namesake lived with her family in the Los Angeles area. She remembers watching her mother and other family ...
Aug 31, 2023
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Health
Eat your veggies: Writing 'produce prescriptions' could boost patients' health
An apple a day may be just what the doctor ordered.
Aug 29, 2023
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Pediatrics
Pandemic weight gain in kids influenced by family income
The stress, lack of exercise and poor nutrition resulting from the disruption and isolation of the pandemic shutdown led many children and adolescents to gain excess weight. But weight gain was greatest in low-income youth ...
Aug 14, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Integrated mental health care in pediatric primary care linked to improvements in school functioning, study finds
New research led by Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Public Health found that children who received integrated mental health care showed improvements in both mental health and school performance.
Aug 14, 2023
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Health
Many Americans faced food insufficiency following discontinuation of pandemic-related benefits, study finds
The recent discontinuation of pandemic-related food assistance benefits, known as the Supplemental Food Assistance Program (SNAP) Emergency Allotments, led to a substantial increase in food insufficiency in the United States, ...
Aug 11, 2023
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Health informatics
Six percent of U.S. adults had activity-limiting injury in 2020 to 2021
In 2020 to 2021, about 6 percent of U.S. adults had an activity-limiting injury in the past three months, according to a July data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for ...
Jul 21, 2023
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Addiction
4.5 percent of U.S. adults used electronic cigarettes in 2021
In 2021, 4.5 percent of U.S. adults were electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) users, according to a July data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics.
Jul 21, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How effective is Functional Family Therapy for addressing youth behavior problems?
Functional Family Therapy is a family-based intervention for youth with behavior problems, and although it's been implemented in 45 states in the U.S and in nine other high-income countries, a recent analysis of published ...
Jul 19, 2023
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Medical economics
Conditional cash transfer programs have prevented 739,919 child deaths in Latin America: Study
Over the past two decades, conditional cash transfer programs have led to a 24% reduction in child mortality in Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador, equivalent to more than 700,000 child deaths averted, according to an impact evaluation ...
Jul 14, 2023
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