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Make America Healthy Again Commission. 2025. Make our children healthy again: Assessment. Washington, DC: White House, 72 pp. (The MAHA report)

Annotation: This report outlines a strategic approach for executive actions to address the childhood chronic disease crisis through advancing research, realigning incentives, increasing public awareness, and fostering private sector collaborations. The goal of the strategic approach is to translate the work of the Make America Healthy Again movement to policies that make a transformative and lasting impact for American and end the crisis.

Keywords: Chronic illnesses and disabilities, Collaboration, Oral health, Public awareness, Public heath, Public policy, Research

Make America Healthy Again Commission. 2025. Make our children healthy again: Strategy report. Washington, DC: White House, 19 pp. (Recommendations of the MAHA Commission to Donald J. Trump)

Bhaskara S, Isman B, Phipps K. 2024. link still good 12/17/25. Reno, NV: Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors, 41 pp.

Annotation: This report, which focuses on oral health needs assessment, is intended to serve as a step-by-step guide that can be adapted to specific and diverse community needs, objectives, resources, and policies. In addition to the seven steps, the report explains what needs assessments are and why they are important.

Keywords: Community health, Needs assessment, Oral heath, Public policy

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network. [2013]. Birth defects: A tool kit. [Atlanta, GA]: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network, 18 pp.

Annotation: This toolkit, which is geared toward public health professionals, offers tips for effectively delivering messages about birth defects to a variety of audiences, including state and local public and environmental health professionals, decision makers, and the interested public. The toolkit can be used to help meet the communication goals set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Environmental Public Health Tracking Network. Topics include goals and guiding principles, environmental public health before and after tracking, the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network: a timeline, key messages and talking points, facts, a sample article, and social media examples.

Keywords: Communication, Congenital abnormalities, Educational materials, Mass Media, Prevention, Public awareness campaigns, Public awareness materials, Public heath

Flores G. 2012. Community health workers, promotores, and parent workers: Innovative, community-based approaches to improving the health and healthcare of children. Washington, DC: First Focus, 9 pp. (Big ideas: Children in the Southwest)

Annotation: This paper examines how community health workers (CHWs), promotores, and parent mentors can be used to improve the health of children in the Southwest, as well as the health care available to them. The paper provides definitions of CHWs, promotores, and parent mentors and discusses a conceptual framework for providing an understanding of how they can improve children's health and health care; evidence of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness; existing programs; and implications for policy, practice, and research.

Keywords: Access to health care, Child abuse, Child health, Community health workers, Community heath services, Costs, Ethnic factors, Health services, High risk groups, Hispanic Americans, Income factors, Low income groups, Low income groups, Programs, Public policy, Racial factors, Research, Southwestern United States, Uninsured persons

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2011. Ethical issues in interventions for childhood obesity. Preventing Chronic Disease: Public health research, practice, and policy 8(5):A91-A117,

Annotation: This journal issue includes articles that are related to ethical issues in interventions to prevent and control childhood obesity. Topics include protecting children from harmful food marketing, policy approaches, weight bias, children with special health care needs, public vs individual rights in childhood obesity interventions, the ethical basis for promoting nutritional health in public schools, ethical family interventions, state requirements and recommendations.

Keywords: Adolescent health, Child health, Children with special health care needs, Civil rights, Ethics, Families, Health promotion, Human rights, Intervention, Marketing, Obesity, Physical activity, Prevention, Public policy, Research, School heath, Social bias

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Brookings Institution. 2011. Work and family. Princeton, NJ: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 3 items. (The future of children; v. 21, no. 2, Fall 2011)

Annotation: This issue of The Future of Children examines a variety of work-family conflicts and assess their effects both on the well-being of American employees and their families and on the productivity of American employers. The authors also suggest approaches to help working parents meet the challenges of work-family conflict. The issue includes articles on the following topics: work and families; changing families, changing workplaces; policies to assist parents with young children; families with school-age children; children with health problems; families and elder care in the twenty-first century; workplace flexibility; the government's role in work-family conflict; and international perspectives on work-family policies.

Keywords: Children with special heath care needs, Employment, Families, Government role, Older adults, Public policy, School age children, Working mothers, Working parents, Young children

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. 2011. Evidence-based methodologies for public health: How to assess the best available evidence when time is limited and there is a lack of sound evidence. Stockholm, Sweden: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 58 pp. (ECDC tehnical report)

Annotation: This report explores ideas for how to match and possibly merge methods from epidemiology and evidence-based medicine to create an evidence-based methodology (EBM) for infectious diseases prevention and control. The report discusses (1) challenges of working with evidence-based methods in a public health setting, (2) providing evidence-based guidance in the context of scarce evidence and limited time, (3) the usefulness of EBM tools for grading evidence and recommendations for the field of public health and infectious diseases, (4) assessing and ensuring quality in guidelines development for controlling communicable diseases, and (5) using EBM methods for public health.

Keywords: Communicable diseases, Disease prevention, Epidemiology, Evidence based medicine, Guidelines, Public heath

American Public Health Association. 2010. Health literacy: Confronting a national public health problem. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 1 item.

Annotation: This policy statement provides information about the importance of being health literate for being healthy, navigating the health care system, advocating for one’s health care needs, responding to public health alerts, and voting on decisions affecting the health of one’s environment and community. Also discussed is the public’s overall health literacy level. Successful approaches to improving health literacy are presented, along with recommendations for actions to further improve health literacy.

Keywords: Advocacy, Health literacy, Heath care systems, Oral health, Public health, Public policy

Trahan L, Phillips K. 2009. Investing in maternal and child health: Strategies for state employers. Washington, DC: National Business Group on Health, 43 pp.

Annotation: This presentation discusses the business case for investing in maternal, child, and adolescent health (MCAH) and describes a model for improving MCAH through employer-sponsored benefits and health promotion programs. Contents include a description of a resource guide on MCAH plan design, education, and communication and related resources.

Keywords: Business, Child heath, Employer initiatives, Maternal health, Models, Program improvement, Public private partnerships, State programs, Work family issues
   

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