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Quarterly Opinion
April 2025 Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Patricia Hong,
Everyone is familiar by now with the United States’s appalling maternal and infant mortality statistics. Despite leading the world in health care… More
Quarterly Article
November 2023 Margaret McConnell, Sumit Agarwal, Erika Hanson, Erin McCrady, Margaret G. Parker, Kira Bona,
This article discusses the interplay between health and economic vulnerability during pregnancy and childhood, how these overlapping challenges are addressed by current policies, and the rationale for cash transfers provided in health care settings. More
July 2023 Katelyn Girtain, Sural Shah, Ana C. Monterrey, J. Raul Gutierrez, Mark Kuczewski, Julie M. Linton,
The United States is home to 44.9 million immigrants who contribute unique assets, economic stability, and rich lived experiences to communities… More
July 2023 Sara Rosenbaum, Kay Johnson,
Why a modern regulatory framework for EPSDT that accounts for congressional reforms to the benefit, Medicaid’s enrollment expansion, and the transition to managed care is needed. More
April 2023 Natasha Pilkauskas,
The goal of this paper is to paint a broad picture of findings related to income support and child health. More
April 2023 Nathaniel Anderson, Neal Halfon, Daniel Eisenberg, Anna Markowitz, Kristin Anderson Moore, Frederick J. Zimmerman,
Monitoring population health is one of the 10 essential services of public health. Accurate information on current and emerging threats to the public’s health forms the basis for high-quality research, practice, and policy. For this reason, critical appraisal of the measures and data systems tracking the nation’s health is a persistent necessity. More
March 2023 David Rosner,
A recent set of lawsuits against the Monsanto Corporation by local and state governments to get the company to clean up the mess it made of waterways and local schools with polychlorinated hydrocarbons (PCB) pollution has led to efforts by the company to silence scientists who have served as expert witnesses for plaintiffs. More
March 2023 Paul T. von Hippel, David E. Frisvold,
Context: To control childhood obesity, leading medical organizations have recommended increasing the time that children spend in physical education… More
February 2023 Christina Sobin, Marisela Gutiérrez-Vega, Gisel Flores-Montoya, Michelle Del Rio, Juan M. Alvarez, Alexander Obeng, Ganga Hettiarachchi,
Child lead poisoning, the longest-standing child public health epidemic in US history, is associated with socioeconomic inequity and perpetuates health inequality. Current methods for testing and detection are no longer suited to the demographics and magnitude of the problem. More
January 2023 Taryn A. G. Quinlan, Amelia L. Mitchell, Glen P. Mays,
Context: Improving maternal and child health (MCH) care in the United States requires solutions to address care access and the social determinants… More
