Child Health
A person under one year of age.
What is an infant?
A health insurance program primarily serving individuals with low incomes.
What is Medicaid?
The conditions in which people live, work, and play, and are shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources
What are social determinants of health?
A 2020 global pandemic that illustrated how countries must work together to protect all people's health.
What is COVID-19?
Passed in 2010, this legislation greatly expanded access to health insurance
What is the Affordable Care Act?
The leading cause of death among adolescents
What are injuries?
This program provides nutritional supplementation and education to low income women and children.
What is WIC (Women, Infants & Children)?
Defined as "12 months without menstruation"
What is menopause?
This act established the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and other programs.
What is the Social Security Act of 1965?
Provides equal opportunity for people with disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
Babies born before 37 weeks and who are therefore more vulnerable to mortality.
What are premature infants?
An organization that promotes and protects the health of people around the world
What is the WHO?
A theory that outlines how our health is affected by personal choices and the social, historical, and environmental contexts we experience
What is Elder's Life Course Theory?
This program, established in 1946, ensures kids get a meal while at school
What is the National School Lunch Program?
A federal grant program that provides family planning services
A global charity focused on improving the health of all children.
What is UNICEF?
The lack of consistent access to enough nutritious food for an active, healthy life due to limited money or resources
What is food insecurity?
The inability to become pregnant after one year of unprotected vaginal sex
What is infertility?
States could choose this optional part of the Affordable Care Act to ensure broader health insurance coverage of low income people and families.
What is Medicaid expansion?
This 1975 legislation ensures CYSHCN have access to educational services
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
A program to provide health insurance for uninsured children whose families' incomes are too high to qualify for Medicaid.
What is SCHIP (State Child Health Insurance Program)?
The practice of holding an infant skin-to-skin with a caregiver with proven health benefits.
What is kangaroo care?
What is the "fourth trimester"?
This food stamp program was temporarily defunded during the 2025 government shut down.
What is the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP)?
A never-implemented 1968 program that would have provided maternity coverage for all American women and infants under one.
What is Kiddy Care?