Search Results: MCH Organizations

Annotation: The National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) is the national professional organization of physician medical examiners, medical death investigators and death investigation system administrators who perform the official duties of the medicolegal investigation of deaths of public interest in the United States. NAME was founded in 1966 with the dual purposes of fostering the professional growth of physician death investigators and disseminating the professional and technical information vital to the continuing improvement of the medical investigation of violent, suspicious and unusual deaths. Growing from a small nucleus of concerned physicians, NAME has expanded its scope to include physician medical examiners and coroners, medical death investigators and medicolegal system administrators from throughout the United States and other countries.

Keywords: Cause of death, Child death review, Death certificate, Infant death review, Investigations, Professional societies

Annotation: The Child Fatality Review Committee (CFRC) was created by Executive Order in 1991 to reduce preventable child fatalities through systemic multidisciplinary review of child fatalities in New Hampshire; through multidisciplinary training and community based prevention education; and through data-driven recommendations for legislation and public policy. The Committee membership is comprised of representation from the medical, law enforcement, judicial, legal, victim services, public health, mental health, child protection and education communities. The Committee began reviewing cases of child fatalities in 1996 to identify risk factors related to deaths and make recommendations aimed at improving systematic responses in an effort to prevent similar deaths in the future. The Committee provides the recommendations to the participating agencies and asks them to take actions consistent with their own mandates. The Committee publishes the recommendation and the agency responses to those recommendations in an Annual Report.

Keywords: State agencies, , Cause of death, Child death review, Child mortality, Infant death review committees, New Hampshire

Annotation: The Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC) Foundation (formerly the SUDC Program created in 2001) provides information, support, and advocacy for families and professionals affected by sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC), and promotes awareness of SUDC in communities. The foundation funds research, provides grief support services for families, shares information, builds public awareness and understanding of SUDC, and raises donations.

Keywords: Cause of death, Child death, Family support programs, Infant death, Outreach, Peer support programs, SIDS, Stillbirth