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Annotation: This paper reports a survey to make the Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, Comprehensive Child Care Project Staff knowledgeable and able to support all expressions of concern with substantive information. The survey among a sample of project families attempted to delineate the family's housing situation in regard to space, safety and sanitation; the nutritional status in regard to availability of food, shopping practices and dietary intake; and the children's educational placement and experiences in school and the parents' perception of the schools. The survey is also designed to document the adequacy and effectiveness of existing social services and agencies in the community to deal with these problems. This paper is produced as part of the documentation and assessment of the effect of P.L. 89-97, Title V. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Children and Youth Projects, Comprehensive health care, Educational factors, Federal MCH programs, Housing, Nutritional status, Program evaluation, Social services, Surveys, Title V programs

Annotation: These forms are a follow up survey of the former participants in the University Affiliated Cincinnati Center for Developmental Disorders training programs. Theyprovide space to record information about the participants and their comments and assessment of the program. One version is for former trainees with 300+ contact hours; the other is a modified version for trainees with 300+ contact hours who participated in the Interdisciplinary Leadership Core Curriculum since 1987-1988.

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Keywords: Developmental disabilities, Evaluation, MCH training, Surveys

Annotation: This electronic file presents PowerPoint-type slides that describe the Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) analysis process and findings from a study of a reference group of individuals in Arizona that include a chart of feto-infant death, how different data can lead to potential actions, and changes between the first (2000-2002) and second (2003-2005) cohorts. Data are analyzed according to ethnicity, age, and level of education. It concludes with a statement of which groups and which periods on the prenatal-infancy continuum need to be focused on.

Keywords: Arizona, Fetal mortality, Infant mortality, State surveys

Annotation: This survey provides information about the oral health of young children in Nebraska during the period 2021–2022. Topics include the statewide Head Start survey, the statewide third grade survey, the Lancaster county third grade survey, oral health disparities, and trends. The oral health status of young children in Nebraska compared with the oral health status of young children in the United States as a whole is discussed.

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Keywords: Data, Health care disparities, Nebraska, Oral health, State information, Surveys, Trends

Annotation: This explainer examines the purpose and current status of the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) in tracking the health behaviors and experiences of mothers and infants in the United States. t details how jurisdictions use survey data to inform public health initiatives, such as breastfeeding campaigns and Medicaid policy changes, while highlighting the system's role in addressing health disparities. The document discusses recent threats to the program, including software shutdowns, workforce reductions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and uncertain funding that jeopardize national maternal health surveillance. It also describes the range of data collected—including prenatal care, postpartum depression, and social risk factors—and features a map of participating states and territories as well as a photograph of a clinical examination

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Keywords: Health equity, Infant health, Maps, Maternal health, National surveys, Politics, State surveys, Surveillance

Annotation: This report provides information about the quality of oral health care for infants and children from birth through age 6 enrolled in Medicaid in New Jersey. The report includes information on the importance of oral health. Data on the oral health status of infants and children living in the state, including those enrolled in Head Start, and about receipt of oral health care among these infants and children is presented. The report also describes a "secret shopper" survey used to assess quality and provides the quality measures used, methods, and results.

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Keywords: School age children, Disease prevention, Access to heath care, Infant health, Low income groups, Medicaid, New Jersey, Oral health, Quality assurance, State information, Surveys:, Young children

Annotation: This report presents findings on the state of women's and family health benefits in the workplace based on two surveys conducted in October-November 2024. It addresses challenges facing employees and employers, including rising healthcare costs, burnout among working parents, and increased anxiety around reproductive health. The report highlights how companies are responding through expanded benefits, with 69% planning to increase family health benefits vendors in the coming years. It discusses the benefits of offering comprehensive women's and family health support, including improved employee retention and reduced healthcare costs. The report includes specific statistics on employer and employee priorities, testimonials from benefits leaders, and guidance for designing effective family benefits programs. Sections cover topics such as fertility support, parenting challenges, men's reproductive health, and the role of digital health solutions in improving outcomes.

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Keywords: Employer health costs, Family support services, Health Benefits Plans, Employee, Insurance benefits, Maternal health, Perinatal care, Reproductive health services, Statistics, Surveys, Trends, Women's health, Workplace health promotion

Annotation: This fact sheet describes the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), a population-based surveillance system that collects state- and site-specific data on women's experiences and health before, during, and shortly after pregnancy. The document explains that PRAMS was launched in 1987 and codified into law through the 2006 PREEMIE Act, operating as a joint project between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state, territorial, tribal, and local health departments. It covers PRAMS operations in 46 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and New York City, representing about 81% of all U.S. births. The fact sheet emphasizes PRAMS' alignment with the Title V MCH Services Block Grant by providing unique state-level data that Title V programs rely on to track key maternal and infant health indicators such as postpartum depression, mental health screening, and infant safe sleep practices.

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Keywords: Data collection, Data sources, Health surveys, Population surveillance, Pregnancy, Questionnaires, State surveys, Statistical data

Annotation: This brief provides results from the Make Your Smile Count! screening survey of third-grade students conducted by the Ohio Department of Health during the 2023–2024 school year. It presents information on decay experience, untreated decay, receipt of dental sealants, last dental visit, and treatment urgency. Also discussed are the impact of limited access to oral health care on oral health status, trends in oral health status, and the relationship between consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and oral health status. A comparison between the oral health of students in Ohio vs. the United States is included.

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Keywords: Access to care, Dental caries, Ohio, Oral health, School age children, State information, Surveys, Treatment, Trends

Annotation: This online resource includes shared care planning tool for families of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) and a 5-item screening tool to identify CSHCN based on the definition provided by the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau. A searchable library contains reports, data and research briefs, presentations, project summaries, and additional materials aimed at promoting lifelong health for children, youth, and families using family-centered measurement, data and tools.

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Keywords: Adolescent health, Adolescents with special health care needs, Child health, Children with special health care needs, Data , Family centered care, Screening tests, Surveys

Annotation: This fact sheet provides information on oral health among children and adolescents ages 1–17 in Texas in 2020–2021. The information is based on results of the 2021–2022 National Survey of Children's Health. Topics include the likelihood of children from high-income vs. lower-income households having excellent or very good teeth; the likelihood of Hispanic children vs. non-Hispanic children having excellent or very good teeth, differences in having had one or more preventive oral health visit, by age; and the overall condition of children's and adolescents' teeth, as reported by parents.

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Keywords: Adolescent health, Age factors, Child health, Data, Dental caries, Health care utilization, Hispanic Americans, Income factors, Oral health, Prevention, State information, Surveys, Texas

Annotation: This report provides an analysis of data from the 2023 Keep Smiling Vermont Basic Screening Survey, a survey of the oral health status of children in kindergarten and third grade in the state. The report introduces the issue and presents key findings on the following topics: tooth decay experience, trends in prevalence of tooth decay and in dental treatment needs, prevalence of dental sealants among children in third grade, the impact of socioeconomic status on oral health, and receipt of fluoride varnish and other preventive oral health measures. The report also offers recommendations, discusses health equity, and presents limitations of the survey.

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Keywords: Data, Dental caries, Dental sealants, Fluoride varnish, Kindergarten, Oral health, Prevention, School age children, Socioeconomic factors, State information, Surveys, Trends, Vermont

Annotation: This parent oral health survey form was sent to parents or caregivers of children who received care from the Rocky Mountain Network of Oral Health, which was part of the Networks for Oral Health Integration (NOHI) Within the Maternal and Child Health Safety Net program. The form includes questions related to fluoride varnish, the respondent's knowledge about oral health care and oral hygiene for children, oral health care that the child has received, and background information about the respondent. zzz

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Keywords: Attitudes, Caregivers, Dental caries, Fluoride varnish, Health care utilization, Oral health, Oral hygiene, Parents, Prevention, Surveys

Annotation: This report provides information about a survey conducted to assess the oral health status of students in public elementary schools in Maryland. The survey, conducted every 5 years, serves as a surveillance project to inform public health initiatives and interventions. The report provides background on the survey and presents survey methods and results.

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Keywords: Maryland, Oral health, Research, School age children, State materials, Surveys

Annotation: This brief provides key findings from the State of Oral Health Equity in America 2024 Survey, a nationally representative survey of over 9,000 adults’ attitudes, experiences, and behaviors related to oral health. Information is included about dental visits in the past year by home-ownership status, planned dental visits in the coming year by income level, emergency department visits for oral health care by educational attainment, having a dental home by health insurance status, self-rated oral health by sexual orientation, importance attached to cultural humility in oral health care by race, and importance attached to diversity in oral health care by income level.

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Keywords: Behavior, Cultural competence, Educational attainment, Emergency medical services, Health equity, Health insurance, Income factors, Oral health, Oral health care, Sexual identity, Surveys

Annotation: This report outlines findings and recommendations from a survey assessing equity practices within Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (PQCs). It presents survey results from the Maternal Child Health Systems Assessment Tool (MSAT), which evaluated how PQC leadership perceives and experiences equity within their work environments. The document examines key findings in demographics, attitudes, behaviors, knowledge, perceptions, characteristics, and experiences of PQC staff, revealing that while most PQCs operate within an ally-designed system, they face challenges in leadership diversity and implementing equity-based approaches. It provides seven major recommendations for improving health equity in PQCs, including increasing leadership diversity, moving beyond basic DEI training to action planning, enhancing community engagement, securing leadership buy-in, strengthening organizational culture, addressing socio-political barriers, and ensuring sustainable funding support. The report includes specific implementation strategies for each recommendation and incorporates visual aids such as a community engagement spectrum diagram and a table of authentic community engagement practices.

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Keywords: Collaboration, Cultural diversity, Health equity, Perinatal health, Quality assurance, Surveys, Work force

Annotation: This brief summarizes results from surveys of Medicaid participants and dentists in eight states conducted to improve understanding of barriers to accessing oral health care among participants. The brief provides background and discusses methods. It also provides percentages by survey results and claims data on adults' utilization of oral care and dentists' participation in Medicaid, reasons for not visiting a dentist more frequently among adult Medicaid participants, and the relative importance of factors that prevent dentists from treating more participants. Policy implications are also discussed.

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Keywords: Dentists, Health care utilization, Low income groups, Access to health care, Medicaid, Oral health, Public policy, Surveys

Annotation: This thesis presents a research study examining birthing people's experiences with the health care system during prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum periods. The study used patient journey mapping, surveys, and interviews to capture experiences at multiple time points. Participants included six prenatal and four postpartum patients, with a focus on Black birthing people. Key findings revealed challenges with insurance access, getting questions answered between appointments, and a lack of racial concordance with health care workers. Participants also reported feeling unprepared for unexpected events, accepting care that did not align with their needs, and inconsistent mental health and intimate partner violence screenings. The thesis discusses implications for improving maternal care, such as offering low-cost services, implementing telehealth, ensuring universal screenings, and increasing workforce diversity.

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Keywords: Access to care, Barriers, Blacks, Childbirth, Health care systems, Interviews, Perinatal care, Postpartum care, Pregnant women, Prenatal care, Surveys, Toronto Canada

Annotation: This data brief presents key findings from a survey conducted in 2022–2023 by the Ohio Department of Health of Ohio dentists and dental hygienists to assess their knowledge of, attitudes about, and practices related to oral cancer screenings, human papillomavirus (HPV), and the HPV vaccine. Topics include oral cancer screening practices, HPV and HPV vaccine knowledge, and HPV vaccine practice and attitudes. Background information on HPV is provided.

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Keywords: Dental hygienists, Dentists, Health screening, Ohio, Oral cancer, Oral health, State information, Surveys, Vaccines, human papillomavirus

Annotation: This screening survey provides information about the Basic Screening Survey (BSS) for Arkansas conducted during the 2019–2020 school year. Definitions of terms used in the survey are provided, and methods are discussed. Statistical information is presented in figures, limitations are described, and findings are discussed. Key findings are also presented.

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Keywords: Arkansas, Data, Oral health, State information, Surveys