From data to action : CDC's public health surveillance for women, infants, and children (second edition)

The initial edition of Data to Action: CDC\u2019s Public Health Surveillance for Women, Infants and Children, published in 1994, was the first comprehensive description of the Centers for Disease Control\u2019s many surveillance and data system activities related to the health of women and children. It covered critical public health concerns, spanning the life cycle from infancy to reproductive-age women, with each chapter structured similarly so that differences and connections could be more easily discerned.Public health professionals have always been concerned with measuring health events across the life span. Maternal and child health surveillance captures data on reproductive health, pregnancy, birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence. Public health planners need to know the data that are available and how to use that information. In turn, public health data systems need to respond to the needs of stakeholders by providing and interpreting data that can be translated into appropriate action. The demand for such information is rapidly increasing in the public health community and will become even more critical in the face of emerging public health crises and emergency preparedness and response.This monograph is a step toward making the surveillance systems of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) more accessible to persons concerned with the health of women, infants, and children. It aims to note achievements from previous decades as well as identify new and ongoing challenges. Data needs evolve over time, and surveillance systems can adapt and respond to these challenges. This monograph offers health practitioners and planners at national, state, local and tribal levels a better appreciation of the uses and limitations of these surveillance systems, and enables us to think more critically about improvements in measuring the health of these populations.Data-To-Action_508.pdf2020897

Consumo de tabaco, cannabis y alcohol: un programa de cesación para las mujeres embarazadas (PROGRAMA TACABAL)

tabaco, cannabis y alcohol durante el embarazo suponen un importante problema de Salud Pública. El principal objetivo de esta Tesis es desarrollar un programa para la cesación del consumo de tabaco, cannabis y alcohol durante el embarazo, integrado en la Atención Prenatal y que sea ejecutado por matronas y obstetras. Como objetivo secundario se propone explorar la percepción de los actores clave implicados en los programas de cesación respecto a las intervenciones implantadas en la actualidad, y sobre los requisitos que deberían cumplir las intervenciones de cesación para favorecer su adopción. Además, se pretende diseñar el material necesario para el programa de cesación

New approaches to research with vulnerable populations - interdisciplinary application of a framework for vulnerability and adolescent capacity to consent

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Children's and adolescents' capacity to provide valid informed consent is one of the key ethical concerns in pediatric research, and the focus of this project. The original contribution to knowledge is the advancement of both conceptual and empirical bioethical approaches to research with vulnerable populations. First, a review of adolescent vulnerability is presented to highlight the complex interplay between capacity and other forms of vulnerability. This review is offered as an interdisciplinary analysis to better understand why the study of vulnerable populations is critical to the ethical advancement of clinical research. Results from this analysis suggest the need for enhanced screening techniques as well as the utilization of specialized staff to identify and reduce the impact of different forms of vulnerability. The primary tasks of the empirical portion of the dissertation were to: (1) Adapt a validated adult competency assessment tool for clinical research, the MacArthur Competency Assessment Tool for Clinical Research, to assess the capacity of children and adolescents to consent to clinical research; (2) Identify predictors that impact children and adolescents’ capacity to provide consent to clinical research; and (3) assess differences and similarities in capacity between healthy and chronically ill children and adolescents. Overall results suggest adolescent capacity to consent to research was similar to adults, and most strongly associated with their family's socioeconomic status as well as their level of health literacy. These findings contrast starkly with the age-based criterion for providing consent currently utilized in assent and consent determinations. These findings also provide insights into ways to ethically involve youth in complex biomedical research

Bowdoin Orient v.133, no.1-24 (2003-2004)

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Bowdoin Orient v.132, no.1-24 (2000-2001)

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Bowdoin Orient v.133, no.1-25 (2001-2002)

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