Search Results: MCHLine

Annotation: This resource provides information about health insurance coverage, how to obtain it, and how to use it. Topics include enrolling in health insurance, understanding coverage, common terms, free preventive services, the value of health insurance, finding a provider, primary care vs. emergency care, preparing for the first doctor visit and following up, and finding a local clinic. Information about putting health first, screenings for all ages, healthy eating, staying active, quitting smoking, and getting a flu shot is also included. Additional contents include training tools, fact sheets, resources for educators and federally recognized tribal members, information for older and young adults, a video series, and information about getting help in a language other than English.

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Keywords: Consumer education materials, Consumer health, Enrollment, Health care utilization, Health education, Health insurance, Health literacy, Multimedia, Non English language materials, Self care, Training materials

Annotation: These resources are designed to assist communities in planning, implementing, and evaluating projects and programs to improve health outcomes in children and adults. Contents include information about collaboration and technical support for oral health education, screening, and referral using mobile units. Additional contents include sample forms and promotional materials; templates and toolkits; and videos for community events and presentations.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Community based services, Consumer education materials, Equal opportunities, Interdisciplinary approach, Mobile health units, Multimedia, National initiatives, Oral health, Oral health care, Program development, Program planning, Public awareness campaigns, Public private partnerships, Resources for professionals, Screening

Annotation: This video series for child-serving professionals provides first-hand accounts of how adult survivors' exposure to violence as children has affected them. Topics include treatments that work, the child advocacy center model, community-based approaches, addressing violence in the home, interventions in schools, innovations in juvenile justice, and a call to action. A resource guide, poster gallery, resources for adult survivors, and related resources are also available.

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Keywords: Children, Injury prevention, Intervention, Juvenile justice, Multimedia, Safety, Schools, Trauma, Videos, Violence

Annotation: This fact sheet series provides information on emergency preparedness for pregnant women and families with infants. Topics include tips for getting ready before a disaster, planning emergency supplies, during and after a disaster, and knowing the signs of preterm labor. Separate fact sheets provide tips for creating a disaster kit and preparing for earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, and wildfires. One fact sheet is available in English and Spanish. More information, including guidelines for customizing the fact sheets, is available from the website.

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Keywords: Disaster planning, Emergencies, Families, Health planning, Infants, Life planning skills, Multimedia, Parents, Pregnant women, Spanish language materials

Annotation: These resources are designed to help parents handle common challenges and build a safe, stable, and nurturing relationship with their child. Topics include communicating, creating structure and rules, giving directions, using discipline and consequences, and using time-out. Videos, activities for practicing positive parenting skills, and other resources are included.

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Keywords: Child rearing, Communication skills, Discipline, Multimedia, Parenting education, Parenting skills, Parents

Annotation: These videos and accompanying materials are designed to help health and social service providers and programs introduce families to (1) free national health and medical information resources, (2) the concept of health literacy as a personal asset that can be developed, and (3) a process for using information for health-related problem-solving and action planning. Contents include three 8-10 minute videos, a facilitator's guide, pre- and post-tests, and handouts.

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Keywords: Videos, Consumer education materials, Health literacy, Health promotion, Multimedia, Resources for professionals, Training

Annotation: This resource provides businesses with cost-effective tips and solutions for any industry setting to support women who are breastfeeding. Users can search by industry or by solutions to find creative options for space and time, as well as options for supporting women in large companies and small businesses. Topics include room amenities, breast pumps, options for handling expressed milk, education and professional support, promoting services to employees, and privacy. Videos are included.

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Keywords: Breastfeeding, Business, Employee benefits, Employer initiatives, Multimedia, Parent support programs, Policy development, Working mothers

Annotation: This video series for parents and students of child development uses everyday interactions and routines to demonstrate how parents can nurture the key skills and attributes that children need as they grow. The content is presented by infant and child developmental stage (from birth to age 12 months, 12 to 24 months, and 24 to 36 months). Topics include nurturing healthy brain development from birth; temperament; forming a trusting bond; building strong, positive connections and interactions; developing skills through play, routines, and relationships; and foundations in language, literacy, thinking, and social-emotional skills.

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Keywords: Bonding, Development stages, Early child development, Infants, Learning, Multimedia, Parenting, Parents, Play, Relationships, School readiness, Young children

Annotation: This video and accompanying document are designed to help Head Start health managers introduce Health Services Advisory Committee (HSAC) members to Head Start, the health needs of children enrolled in Head Start and their families, and ways HSAC members can help to improve health outcomes for children and families. The document contains information about Head Start and health services, a script from the video, and six modules. Topics include developing an action plan, evaluating membership and developing a recruitment plan, engaging and orienting members, using technology to connect members, and evaluating effectiveness and planning next steps. The full video transcript is also available as a separate document.

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Keywords: Early Head Start, Head Start, Health services, Multimedia, Training materials, Young children

Annotation: This online multimedia report provides an overview of the progress made between the World Health Assembly Resolution on the Health of Youth in 1989 and the 2011 World Health Assembly Resolution on Youth and Health Risks. It includes World Health Organization recommendations on policies and programs that respond to priority health problems during adolescence, and reflects achievements in developing the evidence base for action. Topics include access to information, opportunities to develop life skills, health services, safe and supportive environments, and participation in programming.

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Keywords: Access to care, Adolescents, Health services, Information sources, International health, International programs, International services, Life skills, Multimedia, Participation, Safety, Social support

Annotation: This video series describes the role of dental therapists in helping to lower costs and increase access to oral health care in Alaska and Minnesota. Topics include oral health status, increasing costs and declining demand for services, dental therapy education and training, and how dental therapists are working with other oral health professionals in both urban and rural settings.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Minnesota, Multimedia, Oral health, Oral health care, Professional education, Professional training, Rural population, State programs, Teamwork, Videos, Work force

Annotation: This curriculum is designed to teach students in kindergarten through third grade about oral health. Contents include videos and corresponding lesson plan activity sheets. Topics include tooth basics, cavities, plaque, visiting the dentist, and the relationship between healthy mouths and healthy bodies. The curriculum also includes live performances in schools and at community events.

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Keywords: Curricula, Educational materials, Multimedia, Oral health, School age children, School health education

Annotation: These resources are designed to help educate people in Alabama about the benefits of healthy teeth and gums. Contents include a video and four posters. Topics include the costs of untreated oral disease; the relationship between oral health and overall health; tooth decay in children; and the importance of toothbrushing, flossing, and regular dental checkups to maintaining good oral health.

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Keywords: Alabama, Health promotion, Multimedia, Oral health, Oral hygiene, Public awareness campaigns, State programs

Annotation: This video provides information about what pregnant women and mothers can do to promote their own and their child’s good oral health and why it is important to do so. The video shows oral health professionals, pregnant women, and mothers discussing the importance of good oral health during pregnancy and infancy. Also shown are oral health professionals demonstrating oral health care for pregnant women and infants.

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Keywords: Dental hygiene, Disease prevention, Fluorides, Health promotion, Infants, Maternal health, Multimedia, Nutrition, Oral health, Oral health care, Pregnant women, Spanish language materials, Young children

Annotation: This program is designed to help prenatal primary care professionals and oral health professionals provide preventive oral health services to pregnant women and new mothers. Contents include videos, guidelines, a referral form and follow-up report card, and a periodicity table. Resources for pregnant women and new mothers include videos on oral health care, a self-evaluation, and a provider locator available in English and in Spanish.

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Keywords: Consumer education materials, Continuing education, Forms, Multimedia, Oral health, Pregnant women, Prenatal care, Prevention services, Self evaluation, Spanish language materials, Training

Annotation: This website provides an introduction to toxic chemicals and environmental health risks that individuals may encounter in everyday life and in everyday places. Users can use the neighborhoods page to learn about the location of chemicals and their related health risks. Additional contents include curriculum units and other resources that teachers can use to stimulate classroom learning about environmental-health-related issues and careers. The resource is available in English and Spanish. A text version is also available.

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Keywords: Chemicals, Curricula, Environmental health, Health occupations, Multimedia, Neighborhoods, Risk factors, Toxicology

Annotation: These training and educational program resources are designed to increase the participation of minorities in public health and biomedical research and to strengthen the capacity of researchers and community members to work effectively with each other. Contents include a curriculum for community members and a curriculum for investigators, research staff, and institutional review board members. Topics include the importance of research, informed decision-making, and how research can improve the health and well-being of communities. Additional multimedia resources are also available.

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Keywords: Barriers, Community participation, Curricula, Informed consent, Minority groups, Multimedia, Professional education, Public health education, Research, Training

Annotation: This website describes a national campaign to increase the number of women who plan their pregnancies and engage in healthy behaviors before becoming pregnant. The website also provides resources for promoting preconception health to women in communities including buttons, checklists, press releases, talking points, e-cards, posters, videos, public service announcements, podcasts, and an image library.

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Keywords: Campaigns, Family planning, Health promotion, Life course, Multimedia, National initiatives, Preconception care, Public awareness materials, Reproductive health, Women's health

Annotation: This webinar provides information about how to improve the health of women of childbearing age. Panelists include contributors to the January/February 2013 supplemental issue on preconception health of the American Journal of Health Promotion (volume 24, no. sp. e). Topics include an overview of the journal issue, consumers' perceptions of preconception health, couples and preconception health, implementing interconception care in community settings, and reaching women through health information technology.

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Keywords: Communities, Health care, Information dissemination, Multimedia, Outreach, Preconception health, Reproductive health, Women's health

Annotation: This podcast provides information for parents, caregivers, teachers, administrators, other school staff, and behavioral health professionals about what kinds of responses to expect from children in the aftermath of disasters and how to help them cope in these situations, such as a school shooting. The podcast helps viewers learn to to identify comment reactions seen in children and adolescents following a disaster, identify ways to talk to and calm children and adolescents, understand how to work with children and adolescents impacted by disasters, and identify signs that mental health services may be needed.

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Keywords: Adolescent behavior, Adolescent mental health, Adolescents, Child behavior, Child mental health, Children, Communication, Communication skills, Counseling, Disasters, Mental health services, Multimedia