Children's Health
Mid-Iowa Health Foundation Policy Brief
A review of state options to increase child health coverage in Iowa. New opportunities available from the federal legislation allows Iowa to move forward with new policies. Click here to download the policy brief.
Children and the 111th Congress: Meeting the Challenge for Children
When a new President takes office and the 111th Congress convenes, children's issues could take on new prominence or be relegated to the background. This CFPC paper and PowerPoint presentation outlines five challenges that must be addressed if children are to receive the attention they deserve in federal budgeting and policy making: (1) the aging of society and trends in the demand for public funding; (2) the growing diversity of the child population; (3) federal budget issues, expiring tax cuts, and PAYGO rules; (4) current recognized gaps in investments in young children; and (5) the absence of a clearly articulated investment agenda for children.
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From Health Coverage to Healthy Child Development: SCHIP Reauthorization and Improving Children's Health
Improving children's health starts with health insurance coverage, but it goes well beyond that to providing needed services that will improve children's healthy development. A growing body of research shows the importance of incorporating quality primary, preventive, and developmental services within pediatric practices. At the federal level, SCHIP reauthorization provides the opportunity to promote such effective practices. A pediatric health policy expert panel met in December 2006 to explore how such practices could be encouraged as a part of SCHIP reauthorization. Click here to access the synthesis of this discussion and policy options.
The Child & Family Policy Center has developed a Healthy Child Story Book that provides the rationale for such a comprehensive approach and describes the evidence base on exemplary pediatric practices to improve children's healthy development, and identifies the leadership role that the federal government can take in this process. Click here to access this Story Book and its policy options.
By Charles Bruner, Build Initiative and Child and Family Policy Center
(in partnership with The Colorado Trust)
A theme running through the work of the Child and Family Policy Center focuses on the necessity of a comprehensive cross system approach when considering ways to assure positive outcomes for children and families. Charlie Bruner, in partnership with The Colorado Trust, produced Connecting Child Health and School Readiness , an Issue Brief focusing on the broad role of the health system in improving children's health development and school readiness. More specifically, the policies that could link the child health, early learning, early intervention and family support systems within the context of ensuring that young children receive preventative and developmental health care are discussed. Click on the link below to download the brief.