A new resource by California Dept. of Public Health and California Dept. of Social Services provides a list of coalitions—like the East Bay Agency for Children—who are working to improve child well-being through policy, systems, and environmental change. Nearly 300 groups are listed, and they're sorted by county.

Check it out here: bit.ly/3YWL5JT

#Children #ChildHealth #PublicPolicy #PublicHealth @PediatricPublicHealth

And for California data on childhood emergency department visits, by county:
https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/2211/emergency-visits/table#fmt=2752&loc=2,127,1658,1659,331,1660,171,1661,357,369,362,360,1662,364,356,217,354,1663,339,365,343,367,344,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,1772,341,338,350,342,359,363,340,335&tf=110&sortType=asc

#Children #ChildHealth #Healthcare #Emergency #MedMastodon #PublicHealth

🚨NEW DATA ALERT: CDC's release on emergency department (ED) visits in 2021 shows visit rates were highest among infants and people ages 75+. Also during that year, about 4% of children had 2+ ED visits in the past 12 months.

Full report here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db478.htm

#Children #ChildHealth #Healthcare #Emergency #MedMastodon #PublicHealth @medmastodon @publichealth

Both statewide and nationally, inequities persist in infant mortality.

Learn more about why and what can be done: https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=10797

#InfantHealth #ChildHealth #Healthcare #HealthDisparities #SDOH #HealthEquity

Some good news: From 1995 to 2022 California’s infant mortality rate fell by more than 35%.

Read our latest blog https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=10797

#ChildHealth #InfantHealth #PrenatalCare #GoodNews #Data #Trend

Data from 58 countries and 12,000 US school districts show that the rate of learning decreases with a rise in the number of hot school days.

https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33020588

#Heatwave #ClimateChange #ChildHealth #Education #ClimateCrisis @edutooters

(Photo by Hans Reniers, via UnSplash, shows a child who is sweating.)

#FactOfTheDay: California boasts higher health insurance rates for every race/ethnicity than those of the nation as a whole.

Learn more: https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/752/health-insurance-race/table#fmt=1145&loc=1,2&tf=124&ch=200,201,7,11,726,10,72,9,73&sortColumnId=0&sortType=asc

#HealthInsurance #HealthCare #PublicHealth #Income #Poverty #PublicPolicy #Children #ChildHealth #ChildHealthcare

The percentage of children with major disabilities—serious impairments in hearing, vision, cognition, walking, or self-care—ranged from less than 2% to more than 7% across California counties with data in 2016-2020.

Learn more: https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/770/disabilities-10k/map#loct=3&fmt=1178&tf=156

#FactOfTheDay #Children #ChildHealth #Disability #DisabilityPride #DisabilityPrideMonth

Monterey County has the highest percentage of children in kindergarten with all required immunizations (97.1%) in California.
Learn more: https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/292/immunizations-kindergarteners/table#fmt=63&loc=2,320&tf=110&sortColumnId=1&sortType=asc

#FactOfTheDay #Vaccination #Immunization #VaccinesWork #Children #ChildHealth #PublicHealth #MedMastodon @publichealth

COVID-19 during pregnancy damages the placenta's immune response to further infections

"But what we're seeing now is that the placenta is vulnerable to COVID-19, and the infection changes the way the placenta works, and that in turn is likely to impact the development of the fetus"...
"Our study suggests that babies born to mothers infected with COVID-19 at any point during their pregnancy will need to be monitored as they grow up"

#COVID #MaternalHealth #ChildHealth

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220919/COVID-19-during-pregnancy-damages-the-placentas-immune-response-to-further-infections.aspx?s=01

According to 2016-2020 estimates, around 1 in 15 American Indian/Alaska Native children ages 0-18 in California had no health insurance coverage, compared with 1 in 25 Hispanic/Latino children, and fewer than 1 in 40 white children. https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/776/health-insurance-race-10k/bar#loc=2&tf=156&pdist=73&ch=201,7,11,726,10,72,9,73
#FactOfTheDay #Health #Healthcare #HealthInsurance #SDOH #RaceEquity #StructuralRacism #Children #ChildHealth #MedMastodon @medmastodon

Cannabis and pregnancy are not compatible.
#pregnancy #cannabis #pretermbirth #ChildHealth
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/doctors-concerned-more-people-using-cannabis-during-pregnancy-1.6409077

Kids who experience housing hardship, like eviction & frequent moving, are more likely to engage in delinquent behaviors, found Sarah Gold's analysis of the FFCWS study of 5,000 children.

What else do we know about housing stability & child well-being?

Read the new research highlight from PRB
https://www.prb.org/resources/public-housing-vouchers-open-doors-to-better-child-health-new-research-suggests/

#Housing #Eviction #ChildHealth #Children #PublicHealth #SDOH #Poverty #ChildWellbeing

As rich countries like the US burn #fossilfuels despite melting ice caps and doomsday clocks, 91 percent of deaths of preterm babies in low- and middle-income countries -- the ones that have contributed the least to the #climatecrisis -- are related to air pollution - The New Indian Express

https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2023/may/21/91-per-cent-deaths-of-preterm-babies-in-low-middle-income-countries-related-to-air-pollution-2577239.html

#ClimateChange #environment #inequality #unitednations #who #unicef #newbornhealth #childhealth

#FactOfTheDay: In June 2022, for more than 3 in 10 California caregivers whose oldest child hadn’t received needed mental health counseling in previous 12 months, providers hadn’t been available.

Learn more: https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/2478/covid19-mental-healthcare-reason/table

#MentalHealth #MentalHealthMonth #MentalHealthAwareness #Healthcare #ChildHealth

💰🧠 A child's brain structure and mental health may be linked to their family's income and access to government assistance

🧒The findings highlight the importance of supporting children from disadvantaged backgrounds

#childhealth #inequality

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/income-and-government-help-linked-to-child-brain-structure-and-mental-health

Millions of Kids Could Lose Health Coverage as States Purge Medicaid Rolls - Stateline

"Now that the COVID-19 public health emergency is ending, states are once again free to verify that enrollees are still qualified and cancel their coverage if they’re not. Experts warn that states could sever as many as 15 million Americans, including 7 million children, from the health coverage they relied on through the pandemic." https://bit.ly/3L9turY

#medicaid #healthinsurance #childhealth

👶👂 Could common ear, nose, and throat issues in pre-schoolers be linked to later autism risk?

🧒🦻 New research suggests a possible association

Understanding this link could lead to earlier interventions

Read more: https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/common-ear-nose-and-throat-issues-in-pre-schoolers-could-be-linked-to-later-autism-risk #autism #childhealth

#FactOfTheDay: In 2020, Monterey county had the highest percentage of kindergartners with all required vaccinations at 97.01%.

Learn More: https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/292/immunizations-kindergarteners/map#loct=3&fmt=63&tf=110&center=-13325098.893387,4509031.392449&zoom=1

#Vaccine #Vaccination #VaccinesSaveLives #Children #ChildHealth

"A new report released by UNICEF finds that 67 million children across the world missed out on either some or all routine vaccinations between 2019 and 2021" writes Rhitu Chatterjee of @npr

In California we know that about 16% of households delayed vaccinations during the pandemic and about 5% still haven't caught up. (Data links in comments.)

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/04/19/1170635284/why-millions-of-kids-arent-getting-their-routine-vaccinations

#Vaccines #Vaccination #VaccinesSaveLives #Children #ChildHealth