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Annotation: This project had two major goals. (1) The project was to consider the various models for identifying psychosocial and developmental problems and develop broad recommendations for future research directions. In addition to this critical review of the literature bearing on the new morbidity and its prevention, the project was charged with (2) considering some of the methodological issues that would need to be confronted in an evaluation of the Health Supervision Package designed by the American Academy of Pediatrics' (AAP) Committee on the Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Contact: National Technical Information Service, O.S. Department of Commerce, 5301 Shawnee Road, Alexandria, VA 22312, Telephone: (703) 605-6050 Secondary Telephone: (888) 584-8332 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.ntis.gov Document Number: NTIS PB93-196814.

Keywords: Infant health, Morbidity, Pediatricians, Prevention, Psychosocial disorders

Annotation: This resource provides a geographic representation of child health in the United States. Contents include national and state-specific data on pediatric health care delivery at the Primary Care Service Area level. A range of maps is available including the number of children under age 18 per pediatrician, the number of children in linguistically-isolated households, median household income, the number of pediatric residents and fellows, and estimated vaccine coverage rates. An interactive mapping tool is available to members of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Contact: American Academy of Pediatrics, 345 Park Boulevard, Itasca, IL 60143, Telephone: (630) 626-6000 Secondary Telephone: (847) 434-4000 Fax: (847) 434-8000 Web Site: https://www.aap.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Children, Data sources, Geographic regions, Health care disparities, Immunization, Integrated information systems, Interactive media, Language barriers, Low income groups, Patient care planning, Pediatricians, Statewide planning, Work force

Annotation: These trainings are designed to help health professionals integrate oral health care into well-child care for children. Trainings include Smiles for Life: A National Oral Health Curriculum, which can be completed for continuing medical education (CME) or continuing nursing education credit, and a training that focuses on tooth decay prevention, oral health assessment, and fluoride-varnish application in Maine, which can be completed for CME credit.

Contact: From the First Tooth / Before the First Tooth, c/o MaineHealth, 110 Free Street, Portland, ME 04101, Telephone: (207) 662-6296 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.fromthefirsttooth.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Child health, Oral health, Pediatricians, Professional training, Well child care

Annotation: This guide for parents offers (1) tips on selecting and interviewing prospective pediatricians, including a list of recommended questions to ask; and (2) guidelines on factors to consider when choosing a hospital that best meets the need of your child(ren).

Contact: St. Louis Children's Hospital , One Children's Place , St. Louis , M0 63110, Telephone: 314.454.KIDS (5437) Web Site: StLouisChildrens.org

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Keywords: Child health, Hospitals, Parent education, Pediatric hospitals, Pediatricians

Annotation: This report summarizes findings from key informant interviews conducted to improve understanding of pediatricians’ provision of preventive oral health care for children ages 5 and under and to assess pediatricians’ familiarity with and use of silver diamine fluoride. Interviews were conducted to learn more about pediatricians’ oral health training experiences; their provision of oral health care and guidance to families of children ages 5 and under; and their perceptions of silver diamine fluoride as a treatment option in the medical setting, including anticipated startup needs and challenges.

Contact: American Academy of Pediatrics, 345 Park Boulevard, Itasca, IL 60143, Telephone: (630) 626-6000 Secondary Telephone: (847) 434-4000 Fax: (847) 434-8000 Web Site: https://www.aap.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Interviews, Oral health, Pediatricians, Prevention, Silver diamine fluoride, Treatment, Young children

Annotation: This manual is intended for health professionals interested in integrating a dental hygienist into a medical care team. It discusses billing, contracting, rules and regulations, and scope of dental hygiene practice specific to North Dakota. It also provides information related to workflow, patient data, and education relevant to health professionals outside North Dakota. The manual discusses scheduling a visit, the oral health screening process, integrating a dental hygienist into the workflow, electronic medical and dental records, care coordination, charging and billing services, rules and regulations, and medical resident and clinical staff evaluation.

Contact: North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services, Oral Health Program, 600 East Boulevard Avenue, Department 310, Bismarck, ND 58505-0250, Telephone: (800) 472-2286 Secondary Telephone: (701) 328-2356 Fax: (701) 328-1412 Web Site: https://www.hhs.nd.gov/health/oral-health-program Available from the website.

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Keywords: , Care coordination, Health education, North Dakota, Oral health, Pediatricians, Primary care, Regulations, Service integration, State programs

Annotation: This book, designed to be used by practicing pediatricians, offers information on the role of the environment in the illnesses of childhood and adolescence. The book is organized into five sections. Section 1 offers background information including developmental toxicity, breastfeeding, how to take an environmental history, and how to do a home inventory of environmental hazards. Sections 2 and 3 focus on chemical and physical hazards and on specific environments such as child care settings, preconceptual and prenatal exposures, schools, waste sites, and workplaces. Section 4 addresses a variety of environmental situations including arts and crafts, asthma, cancer, chemical-biological terrorism, environmental disparities, multiple chemical sensitivities, antibiotics in animal agriculture, and environmental threats in developing countries. Section 5 provides information on communicating about environmental hazards. Boxes, figures, and tables present statistical and other information throughout the book. Also included are six appendices, including the American Academy of Pediatrics' (AAP's) policy statements and technical reports, resources for environmental health, curricula for environmental education in schools, chairs of the AAP committee on environmental health, AAP patient education materials, and more. The book concludes with an index.

Contact: American Academy of Pediatrics, 345 Park Boulevard, Itasca, IL 60143, Telephone: (630) 626-6000 Secondary Telephone: (847) 434-4000 Fax: (847) 434-8000 Web Site: https://www.aap.org Order from the website for a charge. Document Number: ISBN 978-1-61002-218-7.

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• 3rd Edition

Keywords: Adolescent health, Asthma, Chemicals, Child health, Environment, Environmental exposure, Environmental health, Environmental influences, Environmental pollution, Hazards, Pediatricians, Reference materials

Annotation: This resource contains policy-related documents from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Contents include policy statements, practice guidelines, technical reports, and affirmations of value.

Contact: American Academy of Pediatrics, 345 Park Boulevard, Itasca, IL 60143, Telephone: (630) 626-6000 Secondary Telephone: (847) 434-4000 Fax: (847) 434-8000 Web Site: https://www.aap.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Best practices, Guidelines, Health policy, Pediatric care, Pediatricians, Professional societies

Annotation: This resource is designed to help pediatricians and others implement the Affordable Care Act pediatric preventive services provision to ensure that children receive screenings, assessments, and services recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics' Bright Futures guidelines. Contents include visit coding documents for infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence to help pediatricians obtain coverage of and payment for preventive services, to help insurers and policymakers better understand how to cover and pay separately for each service provided, and to assist stakeholders in advocating for payment for services provided in the periodicity schedule. A webinar is also available.

Contact: American Academy of Pediatrics, 345 Park Boulevard, Itasca, IL 60143, Telephone: (630) 626-6000 Secondary Telephone: (847) 434-4000 Fax: (847) 434-8000 Web Site: https://www.aap.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Advocacy, Bright Futures, Clinical coding, Health care reform, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pediatric care, Pediatricians, Preventive health services, Reimbursement

Annotation: These materials for pediatricians provide information on how to support adoptive and foster families who have experienced trauma. The materials include a guide focused on how to help families cope with trauma, a tip sheet about codes to use for evaluations involving screening and anticipatory guidance related to trauma and other mental health and developmental concerns, a discharge form and referral summary, and a guide for families about parenting after trauma.

Contact: American Academy of Pediatrics, 345 Park Boulevard, Itasca, IL 60143, Telephone: (630) 626-6000 Secondary Telephone: (847) 434-4000 Fax: (847) 434-8000 Web Site: https://www.aap.org Available from the website.

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• Spanish

Keywords: Parenting skills, Adopted children, Adoptive parents, Developmental problems, Families, Foster children, Foster parents, Mental health, Pediatricians, Referrals, Resource materials, Trauma

Annotation: This report provides a retrospective look at the National Center for Medical Home Implementation from 2008 to 2012, highlighting some of the center's activities and accomplishments. The report is organized into sections around the center's primary goals, which include building national partnerships, creating tools, fostering community and state collaborations, and integrating the medical home within the American Academy of Pediatrics' community of pediatricians. The report also describes the center's efforts to spread the concept of medical home at the local, state, and national levels. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Contact: National Resource Center for Patient/Family-Centered Medical Home, American Academy of Pediatrics, 345 Park Boulevard, Itasca, IL 60143, Telephone: (847) 434-7605 Secondary Telephone: (800) 433-9016, ext. 7605 Web Site: https://www.aap.org/en/practice-management/medical-home Available from the website.

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Keywords: Collaboration, Information dissemination, Medical home, Pediatricians, Progress reports, Public private partnerships, Service integration

Annotation: This toolkit provides resources for pediatric practices, schools, and child care programs related to emergencies that impact children. The toolkit includes communication checklists for how to plan in advance, respond when an emergency occurs and help children recover from the experience. It also provides practice templates and guidelines related to infectious diseases, environmental hazards, text messaging, and social media; and a communications flowchart on sharing child-related information during a public health emergency.

Contact: Pennsylvania Department of Health, Health and Welfare Building, 625 Forster Street, Eighth Floor West, Harrisburg, PA 17120, Telephone: (877) 724-3258 Web Site: http://www.health.pa.gov Available from the website.

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Keywords: Child care, Child health, Children, Communicable diseases, Communication, Disaster planning, Emergencies, Environmental exposure, Pediatricians, Schools

Contact: American Academy of Pediatrics, 345 Park Boulevard, Itasca, IL 60143, Telephone: (630) 626-6000 Secondary Telephone: (847) 434-4000 Fax: (847) 434-8000 Web Site: https://www.aap.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Disaster planning, Pediatricians, Resources for professionals

Annotation: This monograph is a memoir of Martha May Eliot, pediatrician and chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau from 1951 to 1957. Based on recollections and personal experiences of the author, the biography describes Dr. Eliot's influence on the field of maternal and child health (MCH) and on federal programs addressing MCH issues. An appendix lists the Martha May Eliot award recipients from the establishment of the award in 1964 though 2010.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available for loan.

Keywords: Biographies, Children', Eliot, Martha May, Federal MCH programs, History, Pediatricians, Women, s Bureau

Annotation: This webinar, held on, March 23, 2009, provides information on addressing mental health concerns in early childhood education and child care. Topics include (1) mental health concerns for health professionals involved in early childhood education and child care, (2) the importance of the medical home, (3) Rhode Island's early childhood systems plan Successful Start, (4) early childhood development and mental health concerns and the role of community pediatricians from the Office of Head Start, and (5) how to find and connect with local health consultants. Speakers include Abbey Alkon, UCSF School of Nursing, California Childcare Health Program; Jack Levine, Section on Early Education & Child Care, Section on Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics; Susan Dickstein, Bradley/Hasbro Children's Research Center, Brown Medical School; and Barry Marx, Senior Medical Advisor, Office of Head Start.

Keywords: Child care, Communities, Early childhood development, Early childhood education, Head Start, Medical home, Mental health, Pediatricians, Rhode Island, Young children

Annotation: This fact sheet examines pediatricians' interest in adding or expanding preventive, mental health, and reproductive health services for adolescents if payment barriers were removed. It also identifies the specific practice and staffing changes they would have an interest in making, as well as the types of support and training they perceive would be most helpful to them in providing comprehensive primary care to adolescents.

Contact: National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health, 1615 M Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036, Telephone: (202) 223-1500 Fax: (202) 429-3557 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.thenationalalliance.org/

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Keywords: Adolescent health, Comprehensive health care, Costs, Mental health, Pediatricians, Prevention, Primary care, Reproductive health, Training

Annotation: This manual contains information on the health status of Hispanics and state-of-the art strategies for preventive health care delivery to Hispanic clients. The manual presents a historical background of the Hispanic community, health status statistics, analysis of Hispanic beliefs and practices about health, strategies for effective patient-provider interaction, models to promote health through community education, a reference guide for health care professionals, and a resource guide of Spanish language health publications.

Contact: National Alliance for Hispanic Health, 1501 16th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036-1401, Telephone: (202) 387-5000 Secondary Telephone: (866) 783-2645 Fax: E-mail: Web Site: http://www.hispanichealth.org Various editions available in libraries.

Keywords: Data, Health professionals, Hispanic Americans, Injury prevention, Manuals, Minority groups, Minority health, Pediatricians, Physicians, Prevention, Spanish language materials

Annotation: This news brief discusses strategies for financing Medicaid reimbursement of maternal depression screening by pediatric health professionals. The brief explains the relationship between the healthy development of young children and maternal depression, delineates key strategies for reimbursement, and presents a case study of reimbursement in Illinois. A conclusion and endnotes are included.

Contact: National Academy for State Health Policy, 10 Free Street, Second Floor, Portland, ME 04101, Telephone: (207) 874-6524 Secondary Telephone: (202) 903-0101 Fax: (207) 874-6527 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.nashp.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Case studies, Child health, Depression, Early childhood development, Financing, Maternal health, Medicaid, Mental health, Mothers, Pediatricians, Reimbursement, Screening, Young children

Annotation: This summary presents highlights from a report prepared by the American Academy of Pediatrics for the Agency for Heallthcare Research and Quality. The purpose of the report is to enhance the role and capabilities of pediatricians in planning for and responding to natural disasters and bioterrorist events and to ensure that the special needs of children are incorporated into local, state, regional, and federal disaster preparedness planning and response. A list of resources for additional information is provided.

Contact: U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, Telephone: (301) 427-1104 Secondary Telephone: (301) 427-1364 Web Site: http://www.ahrq.gov Available from the website. Document Number: AHRQ Pub. No. 06(07)-0056-1.

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Keywords: Children, Disaster planning, Disasters, Pediatricians, Terrorism

Annotation: This report articulates changes needed to realize a high-performing system for the delivery of well-child care, drawing on the ideas of leaders in child health care, including pediatric practitioners and family advocates. The report is intended to serve as a template for implementing and evaluating change in clinical practice and as a guide for further policy and research efforts. The report is divided into four sections. Section 1 discusses the methodology used to develop the recommendations. Section 2 outlines important trends affecting preventive and developmental services. Section 3 presents a template for ideal well-child care. Section 4 offers recommendations presented from the perspectives of families, the microsystem, the health care organization, and the broader environment. The report includes four appendices: (1) a list of journal articles reviewed, (2) a summary of the literature review, (3) ideal well-child care scenarios, and (4) well-child care change ideas: readiness for implementation.

Contact: Commonwealth Fund, One East 75th Street, New York, NY 10021, Telephone: (212) 606-3800 Fax: (212) 606-3500 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.commonwealthfund.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Advocacy, Child development, Child health, Children, Families, Pediatricians, Pediatrics, Prevention, Public policy, Well child care