For years the U.S. has faced a child care crisis—one which the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated. Caregivers are finding it challenging to afford and access child care, which is affecting their ability to remain in the workforce. At the same time, child care providers are str...

National discourse has galvanized organizations throughout society to identify and address inequities based on race and ethnic group. In medicine, diversity at all levels — from the frontline workforce to executive suites and from classrooms to laboratories — is an essential compon...

PolicyLab responded to a request for information from the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance regarding policy proposals to address unmet mental health needs.  In this response, PolicyLab experts answer questions, such as “how should shortages of providers specializing in children’s ...

OBJECTIVES: To develop and test the feasibility of a caregiver self-administered social needs screener, a Web-based searchable community resource map, and a process map for implementation of these tools as part of social needs screening and referral on a pediatric inpatient unit. M...

PolicyLab responded to a request for information from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security regarding the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on “Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility." In this response, PolicyLab experts describe harms that resulted from the 2019 public c...

We identified common and unique barriers and facilitators of evidence-based suicide prevention practices across primary care practices with integrated behavioral health services and specialty mental health settings to identify generalizable strategies for enhancing future implement...

IMPORTANCE: Sweetened beverage taxes are one policy approach to reduce intake of added sugars. Soda is the leading source of added sugars in the US diet, but few studies have examined how such taxes influence sweetened beverage intake in youth. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the associatio...

Little is known about the clinical factors associated with COVID-19 disease severity in children and adolescents. We conducted a retrospective cohort study across 45 US children's hospitals between April 2020 to September 2020 of pediatric patients discharged with a primary diagnos...

Quality, safe child care is a pathway to economic stability, can play a role in promoting equity, and is essential to children’s health and development. However, the U.S. has faced a crisis for years regarding affordability and accessibility of quality child care, and the COVID-19 ...

The burden of asthma disproportionately affects minority and low-income communities, resulting in racial and socioeconomic disparities in asthma prevalence, asthma exacerbations, and asthma-related death. Social determinants of health are increasingly implicated as root causes of d...