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100
This is the number one medical complication of childbirth.
What is postpartum depression?
100
Residents of this borough have the longest life expectancy among all New York City boroughs.
What is Queens?
100
While overall rates of low-birth weight and preterm birth are decreasing in New York City, the rates for this age group continue to increase from year to year.
Who are adolescents?
100
Early experiences affect the development of brain architecture, which provides the foundation for all future learning, behavior, and health. About ____% of the human brain develops in the first three years of life.
What is 85%?
100
This new initiative by the Mayor and First Lady sets out to focus on and improve mental health in NYC.
What is The Mental Health Roadmap/THRIVE?
200
This mental health disorder occurs in just 1-2 out of 1,000 new mothers, but the media often incorrectly reports it as postpartum depression.
What is postpartum psychosis?
200
This Queens neighborhood has the highest overcrowded rental housing rate in New York City.
What is Corona?
200
On average, 50% percent of pregnancies are unintended in the US. Latina women are ____ times as likely to experience an unintended pregnancy as are non-Hispanic white women. A) 2 B) 2.5 C) 3 D) 4
C) 3
200
The counterpart to 'machismo', this is a Latino cultural belief about females' virtue and their role in family and society.
What is 'marianismo'?
200
The name of a new program that started in 2016 that can provide health insurance coverage to low-income adults who do not quality for Medicaid due to their immigration status.
What is The Essential Plan?
300
Untreated _______________ is associated with sub-optimal child development, poorer parenting practices, reduced parent-child attachment, reduced family earning ability, and increased risk of the same for children as they age.
What is maternal depression?
300
More babies are born in this neighborhood of Queens each year than any other.
What is Corona?
300
In New York City, _______________ (ethnicity and age group) feel disproportionately sad or hopeless and are more likely to attempt suicide.
Who are Latina adolescents?
300
This mothering act helps protect against both Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and postpartum depression.
What is breastfeeding?
300
Participation in this program has been shown to reduce child abuse and neglect and improve birth spacing for first-time young mothers.
What is the Nurse Family Partnership?
400
80% of new mothers experience this in the first few weeks after the birth of a baby.
What are the "Baby Blues"?
400
This community is said to be the hub of human trafficking on all of the East Coast.
What is Corona/Jackson Heights?
400
Approximately ___% of inmates at Rikers Island have a mental health diagnosis. A) 5 B) 15 C) 25 D) 40
What is D) 40%?
400
At least 1/3 of the families using New York City’s family shelter system are homeless due to _________.
What is domestic violence?
400
As of 2015, this activity performed for a mother during a pediatric well-child visit is covered by Medicaid.
What is a postpartum depression screening?
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