ACEs and State Maternal Child Health Programs

Health Issues Specific to Incarcerated Women: Information for State Maternal and Child Health Programs

Over the last 15 years, the number of incarcerated women in the United States has increased dramatically. While the number of men in State and federal prisons has grown 67% since 1990, the number of incarcerated women has increased by 92% (Beck and Mumola, 1998). Offenses related to illegal drugs account for nearly 40% of this increase. Historically, offenses such as larceny, forgery, embezzlem...

The Health of Homeless Women: Information for State Maternal and Child Health Programs

The Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant acute versus chronic homelessness, and to include the rural program (Title V of the Social Security Act) provides leadership homeless as well as those in urban areas, where the homeless to both the public and private sector to build the infrastructure tend to congregate in order to obtain social services. Further, for health care strategies add...

Maternal and Child Health

Maternal and child health.

The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved. doi:10.1093/eurpub/cki170 Advance Access publication February 9, 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Maternal and Child Health: - Work together and learn together for maternal and child health handbook-.

It was quite a while ago that I studied in Boston as a Takemi Fellow, but the days I spent in the scholarship program still remain one of the most exciting and fruitful periods of my life. It was a year in which I encountered many different people, learned a lot, and came to realize many things that I hadn’t noticed before. The participants of the program included a number of brilliant people f...