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In the News: February 2011
The following resources have been released in the last month and include research, findings, policy developments, recently released publications, new programs, and initiatives related to pediatric
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- Health Care Reform: What School Mental Health Professionals Need to Know highlights changes to health care availability under the Affordable Care Act and the potential impact of such changes on mental health services for children and families. The brief was published by the Center for School Mental Health with support from the Health Resources and Services Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Topics include increased access to health care, pre-existing conditions, preventive health care, expanding Medicaid coverage, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization, health insurance exchanges, and school-based health centers. A list of resources is included.
- 10 Ways You Can Get Good Maternity Care is a guide to help women understand their role in improving the quality of maternity care -- starting with their own care. The guide was published by Childbirth Connection as part of the Transforming Maternity Care campaign. Topics include the rights of childbearing women, choosing a caregiver and birth setting, learning how to understand research findings, benefits of labor support, and how to find a childbirth education class. Handout | Slideshow
- What Works to Prevent or Reduce Internalizing Problems of Socio-Emotional Difficulties in Adolescents: Lessons from Experimental Evaluations of Social Interventions describes lessons learned from rigorously evaluated programs designed to prevent or treat internalizing problems in adolescents. The fact sheet, published by Child Trends through a partnership with the National Adolescent Health Information and Innovation Center, describes internalizing problems (defined as "problems or disorders of emotion or mood caused by difficulties regulating negative emotions") and findings from a review of 37 random-assignment social intervention programs for adolescents. Programs that impact specific internalizing behaviors are presented according to whether they were found to work, had mixed findings, or were found to not work. Implications of the findings and needed research are also discussed.
- Koh HK, Berwick DM, Clancy CM, et al. 2012. New federal policy initiatives to boost health literacy can help the nation move beyond the cycle of costly 'crisis care.' Health Affairs [published online on January 18, 2012]. "The time is right to accelerate our national commitment to providing the American people with clear, understandable, and actionable science-based health information," write the authors of an article published in Health Affairs online on January 18, 2012. The article reviews opportunities that recent federal policies have created to improve health literacy. In particular, the authors discuss three 2010 initiatives that collectively catalyzed attention to the consequences of, and remedies for, limited health literacy. These are the Affordable Care Act, the health care reform law of 2010; the National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy of the Department of Health and Human Services; and the Plain Writing Act of 2010, which requires all new publications, forms, and publicly distributed documents produced by the federal government to be written in a "clear, concise, well-organized" manner. Topics include effective actions from randomized trials demonstrating that system changes focused on health literacy issues can support preventive and client-centered care. These actions include simplifying and making written materials easier to understand, improving providers' communication skills, and improving clients' self-management skills. The authors also discuss the implications of improving access, quality, and cost.
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