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• The Health of Immigrant Populations: Coverage, Access, and Outcomes
• Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents
• International Perspectives on Youth Violence
• Trends in Twin Birth Outcomes and Prenatal Care Utilization
• Using Survey and Market Research to Tailor Pregnancy Prevention Efforts to Young Adolescents
• Using Adolescent Health Data to Influence Policy and Programs
• Mortality Reviews - Tools for MCH Programming
• MCH Data Resources on the Internet
• State Data Systems
• Healthy People 2000 Progress Review on Maternal and Infant Health
• Risk Adjustment for Children's Services
• Developing Effective Performance Measures
• Tools for Monitoring the Impact of Health Systems Changes
• Healthy People 2010
• Violence and Drunk Driving: State-Specific Cost Estimates to Promote Prevention
• U.S. Teens in Our World: Understand the Health of U.S. Youth in comparison to Youth in Other Countries
• Women's Health: Data Resources and Federal Initiatives
• Findings from the National Survey on Children with Special Health Care Needs
• Implications of the New Federal Approach to Classifying Race/Ethnicity
• Managing and Measuring Pediatric Oral Health
• Perinatal HIV Screening: Efforts to Monitor Trends, Improve Provider Capacity, and Reduce Transmission
• Integrated Child Health Information Systems

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 (PDF)

Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents

• The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity, 2001
• 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
  
• Bright Futures in Practice: Physical Activity
• CDC Training Module: Overweight Children and Adolescents: Screen, Assess and Manage

International Perspectives on Youth Violence

• Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action
• Blueprints Project Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence - University of Colorado at Boulder
• The Center for Mental Health in Schools at the University of California at Los Angeles
• Children's Safety Network: National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Center
• National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
• SafeUSA
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2001). "Surveillance of Fatal and Nonfatal Firearm-Related Injuries, United States, 1993-1998."
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2001). "Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General." Rockville, MD.
• "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

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

• Add Health Study
  
• National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
  
• More Web Links on Children's Oral Health (PDF)

Using Adolescent Health Data to Influence Policy and Programs

• 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

• National Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Program
• State FIMR Coordinators
  
• Maternal Mortality in Los Angeles County 1994-1996

MCH Data Resources on the Internet

• Healthy People 2000 data sources
• U.S. Census data
• CDC Data and Statistics
• National Center for Health Statistics

State Data Systems

• New York State Department of Health
• Massachusetts Community Health Information profile (MassCHIP)
• Washington State Department of Health Center for Health Statistics

Healthy People 2000 Progress Review on Maternal and Infant Health

• Healthy People 2000 Progress Reviews
• Healthy People 2010
• March of Dimes
• NCHS: Healthy People 2000 Maternal and Infant Health Progress Review
• NCHS News Release 9/14/99: "Multiple Birth Rate for Older Women is Sky-Rocketing"
• "Data and Review of Progress on Healthy People 2000 Maternal and Infant Objectives: Overview presentation by Dr. Edward Sondick of NCHS."

Risk Adjustment for Children's Services

• CSHCS CAPITATED INTERIM RATES: Final Rate Calculations (you need Excel to open)
• 1999 CSHCS Rates (you need Excel to open)

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.

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, MA.

U.S. Teens in Our World: Understand the Health of U.S. Youth in comparison to Youth in Other Countries

• Currie C., et al (ed.). Health and Health Behaviour Among Young People. WHO Policy Series: Health Policy for Children and Adolescents, Issue 1
• National Academy of Sciences Committee on Health and Behavior. Health and Behavior: The interplay of biological, behavior, and societal influences. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2001
• Health Behavior in School-aged Children Web Site
• U.S. Data Files from 1997/1998 HBSC survey
• Bright Futures: Prevention and Health Promotion for Infants, Children, Adolescents and their Families

Women's Health: Data Resources and Federal Initiatives

• Women's Health USA
• HRSA Office of Women's Health
• DHHS Office on Women's Health
• DHHS Office on Women's Health Regional Coordinators
• National Womens' Health Information Resource Center

Implications of the New Federal Approach to Classifying Race/Ethnicity

• For more information on OMB race standards (Statistical Policy Section, Data on Race and Ethnicity)
• National Vital Statistics System
• National Health Interview Survey

Managing and Measuring Pediatric Oral Health

• Healthy People 2010
• Children's Dental Health Project, American Academy of Pediatrics
• More Web Links on Children's Oral Health (PDF)

Perinatal HIV Screening: Efforts to Monitor Trends, Improve Provider Capacity, and Reduce Transmission

• CDC's Perinatal HIV Prevention Program: Information and Resources
  
• Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs CDC-funded initiative "State-level Capacity Building Toward the Elimination of Perinatal HIV Transmission"
• Aids Education and Training Center National Resource Center
• American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Women, Children, and HIV: Resources for Prevention and Treatment

Integrated Child Health Information Systems

• All Kids Count/Public Health Informatics Institute. Integration of Newborn Screening and Genetic Service Systems with Other Maternal & Child Health Systems: A Sourcebook for Planning and Development. June 2003.
• All Kids Count/Public Health Informatics Institute. Integration of Newborn Screening and Genetic Service Systems with Other Maternal & Child Health Systems: A Tool for Assessment and Planning. October 2003.
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, 42 U.S.C. § 201 (PDF)
• National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center. Fiscal Year 2004 Integration of Newborn Screening & Genetic Service Systems with Other Maternal and Child Health Systems Conference Summary, October 2003 and other related materials.
• Webcast of preconference skill building workshop at AMCHP Annual Meeting, February 29, 2004: "A Framework for Integrating Child Health Information Systems (CHIS)"
• The National Health Information Infrastructure
  
• Toward a National Health Information Infrastructure, June 2000, National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, Toward a National Health Information Infrastructure, Interim Report
• Public Health Informatics Institute

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