Hot Links

The Health of Immigrant Populations: Coverage, Access, and Outcomes

Immigrants' Health Care: Coverage and Access, The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, August 2000. http://www.kff.org/content/2000/2000802a/Pub2203.pdf

 

Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents

The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity, 2001
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity/

News Release on Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity, 2001 (PDF)

Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General, 1996
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/sgr/sgr.htm

Bright Futures in Practice: Physical Activity
http://www.brightfutures.org/physicalactivity/pdf/index.html

CDC Training Module: Overweight Children and Adolescents: Screen, Assess and Manage
http://128.248.232.56/cdcgrowthcharts/module3/text/intro.htm

 

International Perspectives on Youth Violence

Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action (http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/bestpractices.htm)

Blueprints Project
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence - University of Colorado at Boulder (http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/Default.htm)

The Center for Mental Health in Schools at the University of California at Los Angeles (http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu)

Children's Safety Network: National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Center (www.childrenssafetynetwork.org)

National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center (http://www.safeyouth.org/)

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2001). "Surveillance of
Fatal and Nonfatal Firearm-Related Injuries, United States, 1993-1998."
(Available at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr. Specify /mmwr ss.html)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2001). "Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General." Rockville, MD. http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/youthviolence/

"What You Can Do to Prevent Violence" (Booklet by HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau)
Order from the National Maternal and Child Health Clearinghouse at www.nmchc.org or by calling 1-888-434-4624



Trends in Twin Birth Outcomes and Prenatal Care Utilization

Health Canada. Canadian Perinatal Health Report, 2000. Ottawa: Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada 2000. Pages xvii to xix and 69-70.
This publication can be accessed at
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc/brch/reprod.html

 

Using Survey and Market Research to Tailor Pregnancy Prevention Efforts to Young Adolescents

Add Health Study
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth

National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
http://www.teenpregnancy.org

 

Managing and Measuring Pediatric Oral Health

Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health (Executive Summary)

Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health (Full Report)

Surgeon General's Conference on Children and Oral Health

CDC Resources on Children and Oral Health

Healthy People 2010

Children's Dental Health Project, American Academy of Pediatrics

More Web Links on Children's Oral Health (PDF)

NCQA Pediatric Oral Health Performance Measures:
Crall, J.J., Szlyk, C.L., Schneider, D.A., et al. Pediatric oral health performance measurement: Current capabilities and future directions. J of Public Health Dent 1999; 59; 136-141.

 

Using Adolescent Health Data to Influence Policy and Programs

Presenter Contact Information (PDF 4KB)

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, March 1999, Vol. 5, No.2.
Issue Focus: Geographic Information Systems in Public Health, Part 1.

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, July 1999, Vol. 5, No.4.
Issue Focus: Geographic Information Systems in Public Health, Part 2.


Mortality Reviews - Tools for MCH Programming

Arizona Child Fatality Review Team

National Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Program
http://www.acog.org/from_home/departments/dept_web.cfm?recno=10

State FIMR Coordinators
http://www.acog.org/from_home/departments/dept_notice.cfm?recno=10&bulletin=176

Maternal Mortality in Los Angeles County 1994-1996

 

MCH Data Resources on the Internet

 

State Data Systems

 

New Health Status Indicators in the MCH Block Grant

Draft Health Status Indicators (PDF file, 45k)

 

Healthy People 2000 Progress Review on Maternal and Infant Health

Healthy People 2000 Progress Reviews: http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/hp2000/prog_rvw.htm

Healthy People 2010: http://web.health.gov/healthypeople/

March of Dimes: http://www.modimes.org

NCHS: Healthy People 2000 Maternal and Infant Health Progress Review http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/about/otheract/hp2000/childhlt/childhlt.htm

NCHS News Release 9/14/99: "Multiple Birth Rate for Older Women in Sky-Rocketing"  http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/releases/99facts/99sheets/multiple.htm

"Data and Review of Progress on Healthy People 2000 Maternal and Infant Objectives: Overview presentation by Dr. Edward Sondick of NCHS." http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/about/otheract/hp2000/childhlt/childhlt.htm

Michael Kogan, et al. "The Changing Patterns of Prenatal Care Utilization in the United States, 1981-1995, Using Different Prenatal Care Indices." JAMA, 1998, Vol. 279 (20), p. 1623-1628.

Milton Kotelchuck. "An Evaluation of the Kessner Adequacy of Prenatal Care Index and a Proposed Adequacy of Prenatal Care Utilization Index." AJPH, 1994, Vol. 84, p. 1414-1420.

Trude Bennett, "Pregnancy Associated Hospitalizations in the United Sates in 1991 and 1992: A Comprehensive View of Maternal Morbidity." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1998, Vol. 178, p. 346-354.

 

Risk Adjustment for Children's Services

CSHCS CAPITATED INTERIM RATES: Final Rate Calculations (for Steve Fitton's presentation) (Inter_5.xls, 302k) (you need Excel to open)

1999 CSHCS Rates (for Steve Fitton's presentation) (cshcsrat.xls, 302k) (you need Excel to open)

Summary of Description of NACHRI Classification of Congenital and Chronic Health Conditions

Newhouse JP et al., Risk adjustment for a children's capitation rate. HCFA Review, Fall 1993, pp. 39-54.

Ireys HT et al. Expenditures for care of children with chronic illnesses enrolled in the Washington State Medicaid program, FY 1993. Pediatrics 1997;100(2):197-204

Fowles JB et al. Taking health status into account when setting capitation rates. JAMA 1996;276:1316-1321.

Fowler EJ and Anderson GF. Capitation adjustment for pediatric populations. Pediatrics 1996;98:10-17.

Additional References on Risk Adjustment

 

Economic Analysis in MCH

Vol I: An Introduction to Economic Analysis for MCH Practitioners
Vol II: A Review of Descriptive Cost Studies of Economic Evaluations of Maternal and Child Health Interventions
Vol III: Costs of Family Health Services Evaluation of Three Programs in New Jersey

All three background reports may be found at: http://mchb.hrsa.gov/html/economic.html

Prevention Effectiveness: A Guide to Decision Analysis and Economic Evaluation. AC Haddix, SM Teutsch, PA Shaffer, DO Dunet (Eds). New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Distance Learning Course: "Cost Analysis and Decision Making in MCH," May 3-June 25, 1999.

 

Developing Effective Performance Measures

Institute of Medicine Report: "Improving Health in the Community: A Role for Performance Monitoring," Jane S. Durch, Linda A. Bailey, and Michael A. Stoto, Eds., National Academy Press, 1997.

 

Tools for Monitoring the Impact of Health Systems Changes

The Family Health Outcomes Project Web Site

 

Healthy People 2010

http://web.health.gov/healthypeople

 

Violence and Drunk Driving: State-Specific Cost Estimates to Promote Prevention

CSN National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Center housed at Educational Development Center in Newton Mass http://www.edc.org/hhd/csn