The team examined children’s Medicaid participation from 2019 to 2021 and found that as of March 2021, states newly adopting continuous Medicaid coverage for children during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced a 4.62% relative increase in children’s Medicaid participation compared with…

PolicyLab responded to a request for public comment from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on proposed changes to meet the needs of a Modern, Data-Driven Program in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). In their response, PolicyLab experts…

More than 1 in 3 US children live in households with incomes less than 150% of the federal poverty level. Experiencing childhood poverty can have profound negative impacts on children’s health. Nondirected cash transfer programs, such as the 2021 expanded Child Tax Credit (eCTC), have…

The peak of the COVID-19 pandemic led to decreased maternal and child health care engagement, especially among marginalized populations. Existing disparities in prenatal care access and quality faced by pregnant immigrant people are likely to be amplified by the pandemic. We conducted…

PolicyLab responded to a request for public comment from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the Proposed Rule on Child Nutrition Programs: Revisions to Meal Patterns Consistent with the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.  In their response, PolicyLab experts offer their support…

In March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that there were 1205 maternal deaths in 2021 in the US, marking a substantial uptrend from 861 deaths in 2020 and 754 in 2019. This sharp 40% increase in the maternal mortality rate to 32.9 deaths per 100 000 live…

The words used to describe patients have the power to influence their care. “No-show” is shorthand for a patient missing an appointment without alerting the health care team. This term has its contextual root in business, in which a customer’s failure to attend an appointment can be…

Diagnostic excellence is an important domain of healthcare quality. Delays in diagnosis have been described in 20-30% of children with abusive injuries. Despite the well characterized epidemiology, improvement strategies remain elusive. We sought to assess the applicability of…

IMPORTANCE: The variability in timing of middle and secondary school reopenings during the 2020 to 2021 school year in the US presents an opportunity to examine the associations of different approaches to in-person education with changes in community COVID-19 incidence. Early studies…

Asthma is the most common pediatric chronic condition, affecting 5.1 million children in the United States. Although effective clinical management of asthma is readily available and increasingly precise, racial and ethnic disparities in asthma prevalence and clinical outcomes persist…