Children with asthma rely on regular medication use to stay healthy, and are particularly vulnerable to flare-ups and hospitalizations when their treatment is interrupted. One common reason for disrupted access to medication for children with asthma and others with chronic conditio...
Like most young people, transgender and gender-expansive youth often have a pediatric primary care provider (PCP) who is their first or only point of contact in the health care system. Unfortunately, many of these providers feel they do not have the training or experience needed to...
Transgender and gender-expansive youth face unique challenges that impact their physical and mental health. Harassment, discrimination, violence and rejection are just some challenges that lead more than 40 percent of transgender individuals to attempt suicide in their lifetime—10...
With strong evidence that maternal depression negatively impacts children’s health and development, this issue is a pressing concern for children’s health advocates and providers. In this brief, we highlight recent national efforts to improve access to care for maternal depression,...
As recently as 2014, the U.S. military reported rates of child abuse and neglect that were 45 percent lower than those of the general population. However, recent PolicyLab research suggests that the U.S. Army may be unaware of a large proportion of child maltreatment cases among it...
More than 95 percent of children in the U.S. currently have health insurance. We can attribute much of the success in achieving this nearly universal rate of children's coverage to the introduction of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in 1997 and the 1965 passage of Me...
For the 15 percent of adolescents who have intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD), transitioning to adulthood can present unique challenges to accessing necessary health care. PolicyLab researchers have identified specific barriers facing this population and recommended acti...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported more than 1.5 million chlamydia and 400,000 gonorrhea cases in 2015, mostly in adolescents and young adults.1,2 A relatively simple treatment can cure most patients of chlamydia and gonorrhea, but treating an infected pa...
Public health insurance programs such as Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) have been critical to maintaining coverage and meeting the health care needs of millions of children in working families. Today, more than one in three U.S. children – 35 million...
The federal maintenance of effort (MOE) provision is a time-limited provision to prevent states from restricting access to existing public insurance coverage through methods like increasing out-of-pocket costs and rolling back eligibility. This provision is particularly importan...
