Adverse pregnancy outcomes increase infants’ risk for mortality and future health problems. Neighborhood physical disorder may contribute to adverse pregnancy outcomes by increasing maternal chronic stress. Google Street View technology presents a novel method for assessing neighbo...

On November 4, 2019, PolicyLab hosted “Equity, Affordability & Quality: A Roundtable on Medicaid & CHIP’s Future for Youth.” During this event, we assembled children’s health experts with the goal of outlining effective, evidence-based health policy issues and solutions rip...

Racial and ethnic disparities in the identification of developmental and behavioral concerns in children are public health problems in the United States. Early identification of developmental delay using validated screening instruments provides a pathway to prevention and intervent...

OBJECTIVE: To utilize hospital EMR data for children placed in foster care (FC) and a matched control group to compare: 1) healthcare utilization rates for primary care, subspecialty care, emergency department (ED) visits, and hospitalizations; 2) overall charges per patient-year; ...

BACKGROUND: Access to written hospital discharge instructions improves caregiver understanding and patient outcomes. However, nearly half of hospitals do not translate discharge instructions, and little is known about why. OBJECTIVES: To identify barriers to and potential strategie...

Two million adolescents experience suicidal ideation (SI) or suicide attempt (SA) annually, and they frequently present to emergency departments. Delays in transfer to inpatient psychiatric units increasingly lead to “boarding” in emergency departments and inpatient medical units. ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To identify predictors of anticipated pain with intrauterine device (IUD) insertion in adolescents and young women. DESIGN: We performed linear regression to identify demographic, sexual/gynecologic history, and mood covariates associated with anticipated pain usin...

STUDY OBJECTIVES: To examine associations between cumulative socio-demographic risk factors, sleep health habits, and sleep disorder symptoms in young children. METHODS: 205 caregiver-child dyads (child mean age ± SD: 3.3 ± 1.1 years; 53.7% girls; 62.9% Black, 22.4% non-Hispanic/La...

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether there are distinct childhood sleep problem trajectories from birth to 10-11 years and to assess associations with cumulative socio-ecological risks (child, family, context). STUDY DESIGN: Participants were 5107 children from the Longitudinal Study of...