Maternal Child
The period including pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, and post-delivery care.
What is maternal health?
The period from birth to 1 year of age.
What is infancy?
This U.S. department oversees programs such as Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
What is the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)?
Age range typically associated with adolescence.
What is 10–19 years old?
Typical age range for young adulthood.
What is 20–24 years?
The number of deaths of infants under one year per 1,000 live births.
What is infant mortality rate?
Vaccinations are considered this level of prevention.
What is primary prevention?
A federal insurance program for low-income children who are not eligible for Medicaid.
What is CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program)?
The leading cause of death among adolescents in the United States.
What are unintentional injuries (accidents)?
The top three causes of death in young adults include unintentional injuries, homicide, and this.
What is suicide?
Health promotion activity that ensures healthy spacing and timing of pregnancies.
What is family planning?
Federal program that provides nutritious foods, education, and health referrals to low-income women and children.
What is WIC (Women, Infants, and Children)?
This 10-year initiative sets national objectives for improving the health of all Americans every decade.
What is Healthy People 2030?
This term describes pressure from friends to conform to group behaviors.
What is peer pressure?
Although cigarette smoking has declined, this nicotine product has grown in popularity among young adults.
What is vaping or e-cigarette use?
Racial or ethnic group with highest maternal mortality rate?
A key indicator of community child health—tracking injuries, diseases, and developmental milestones.
What is child morbidity and mortality surveillance?
The law that made abortions legal in the 1973.
Roe v. Wade
Name of the national, state and local school-based assessment that researches that teen behaviors and decision-making.
What is the Youth Risk Behavioral Risk Surveillance System?
The age group most likely to engage in this dangerous driving behavior.
What is texting or distracted driving?
Name an agency or organization that advocates for children's health and welfare.
What is..
Children's Defense Fund
UNICEF
American Academy of Pediatrics?
Recommended time for exclusive breastfeeding (only) of infant.
What is 6 months of life?
This law provided healthcare coverage that allowed children to stay on their parents health insurance until the age of 26.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA, 2010)
Three common risk behaviors of high school student.
A trend showing increased anxiety, depression, and burnout in college students is linked to this societal issue.
What is social media influence?