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Jun 25, 2025
Centering Housing Policies on Child Health and Success
Housing is a well-established social driver of pediatric health, and housing needs among children are much more prevalent than we often recognize. We…
Jun 18, 2025
Nurturing Minds: Advancing Early Childhood Mental Health Services Through Clinical Service, Research and Policy
The first five years of a child's life hold remarkable changes and growth. This period is characterized by rapid brain development, the acquisition…
Jun 13, 2025
The Heart of the Matter: Why Medicaid Is Crucial for Children With Congenital Heart Disease
While Medicaid is the largest insurer of children nationwide, it plays an even more significant role in the coverage of children with chronic…
Jun 04, 2025
Secondary Medicaid: Why Privately Insured Children Rely on Medicaid, Too
I am a pediatrician who cares for children who have been hospitalized. Most of my patients are among the 20% of children and youth with special…
May 28, 2025
The Vital Role of Medicaid in Adolescent Eating Disorder Care
Eating disorders are among the most deadly and prevalent psychiatric diagnoses, with anorexia nervosa carrying the second highest mortality rate of…
May 16, 2025
Caring for Caregivers: Shining a Light on Mental Health in Early Parenthood
Over the last 15 years, awareness around postpartum depression (PPD) has continued to grow. To that end, in 2010 and 2015, the American Academy of…
May 08, 2025
Medicaid Is a Lifeline for Many Working Families
Medicaid coverage is a lifeline for tens of millions of working families in the United States. Though 49% percent of children get their health…
Apr 25, 2025
Why Adult Medicaid Is a Critical Component of Child Health
As a primary care pediatrician, I support the health of individual children and families. As a child health researcher, I think about ways to prevent…
Apr 02, 2025
Why Medicaid Is Important for Children and Youth With Disabilities
Medicaid coverage has lifelong positive impacts on children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)*, as well as on their families and…
Mar 25, 2025
Turning the Page: How Shared Reading and Pediatric Partnerships Can Strengthen Early Literacy and Child Well-Being
According to the 2024 Nation’s Report Card, one in three students in Pennsylvania—and even fewer in Philadelphia and among marginalized communities…
Mar 19, 2025
Adolescent Health in 2025: What’s the Status and What’s at Stake?
Adolescence, marked by rapid growth and development (physical, cognitive, psychological and emotional), is a critically important life stage. It is…
Mar 11, 2025
Informing Families, Protecting Youth: The Case for Clearer Alcohol Guidelines in 200 Words
Alcohol remains the most commonly used substance among youth, yet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) have historically lacked explicit…
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