Meeting the Challenge

Using Policy to Improve Children’s Health

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ID11039748
AutoresCharles Adam Brush (Adam Brush, Maggie Kelly, Denise Green, and Marcus Gaffney are with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Atlanta, Ga. John Kattwinkel is with the Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Molly French is with Potomac Health Consulting, Arlington, Va.), Maggie M Kelly (Adam Brush, Maggie Kelly, Denise Green, and Marcus Gaffney are with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Atlanta, Ga. John Kattwinkel is with the Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Molly French is with Potomac Health Consulting, Arlington, Va.), Denise Green (Adam Brush, Maggie Kelly, Denise Green, and Marcus Gaffney are with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Atlanta, Ga. John Kattwinkel is with the Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Molly French is with Potomac Health Consulting, Arlington, Va.), Marcus Gaffney (Adam Brush, Maggie Kelly, Denise Green, and Marcus Gaffney are with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Atlanta, Ga. John Kattwinkel is with the Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Molly French is with Potomac Health Consulting, Arlington, Va.), John Kattwinkel (Adam Brush, Maggie Kelly, Denise Green, and Marcus Gaffney are with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Atlanta, Ga. John Kattwinkel is with the Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Molly French is with Potomac Health Consulting, Arlington, Va.), Molly French (Adam Brush, Maggie Kelly, Denise Green, and Marcus Gaffney are with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Atlanta, Ga. John Kattwinkel is with the Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Molly French is with Potomac Health Consulting, Arlington, Va.)
Año2005
Volumen95
Número11
Páginas1904-1909
Fecha de publicación2005-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditorialAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2004.056200
PMID16195517
PMCIDPMC1449457
OpenAlexW2158954250
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas29

We reflect on the proceedings of a symposium at a conference of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. We present examples of bridging the gap between science and policy to achieve improvements in children’s health through case studies in early hearing detection and intervention, folic acid fortification to prevent birth defects, sleep positioning recommendations to reduce infant mortality, and workplace lactation support programs. We discuss case studies that present different policy strategies (public health law and voluntary practices) for improving public health. These case studies demonstrate both the power of policy as a tool for improving children’s health and the challenges of communicating public health research to policy decisionmakers

Environmental health · Intervention (counseling) · Political science · Public health · Public policy · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences · Child and Adolescent Health · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Gerontology · Health Policy