Acronyms
MCH
What is Maternal and Child Health?
This website showcases information about WIC including advocacy opportunities, education, resources, and how to find a WIC location nearest you.
What is the National WIC Association?
The refusal or delay of acceptance of vaccines despite the availability of vaccine services.
What is vaccine hesitancy?
This section of the Social Security Act provides federal funding to improve the health of mothers, infants, children, and children with special healthcare needs.
What is Title V?
What are the world’s most enduring conspiracy theories?
WIC
What is Women, Infants, and Children?
This site shares information about the grant that supports programs nationally to improve the public health systems for mothers, children, and their families.
What is the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant?
Broadly defined as experiences that produce intense emotional pain and distress.
What is Trauma?
This public health intervention protects children from diseases such as measles, polio, and whooping cough.
What is vaccination (or immunization)?
The virus was created in a lab as a biological weapon.
What is a conspiracy theory about COVID-19 without credible evidence?
Title "number" in the maternal and child health block grant.
Title V
This site is a centralized resource for Illinois youth and families seeking services for behavioral health needs.
What is BEACON?
A framework used to help explain health and disease patterns, particularly those resulting in disparities. The theory suggests that health outcomes are a result of multiple, complex, social, economic, environmental, biological, and behavioral risk and protective factors.
What is Life Course theory?
These evaluations help identify developmental delays or disabilities early so children can receive timely intervention services.
What are developmental screenings?
What are examples of failures in public health that can lead to mistrust in the system?
This organization tracks disease and promotes public health in the United States.
Who is the CDC?
These checklists provide lists of actions and milestones that are expected by infants and children of a certain age. The handouts include activities to help encourage healthy growth and development and information on how to intervene early if the parent suspects a problem.
What are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Development Milestones?
A "contemporary" framework for activism and for thinking about the experience of reproduction.
What is reproductive justice?
Public health professionals recommend these regular healthcare visits during pregnancy to monitor the health of both mother and baby.
What is prenatal care?
Bots and trolls created discord to legitimize the vaccine debate.
What are the sources of disinformation, doubt creators?
An assessment that gives you a score based on traumatic events before the age of 18
What is ACEs?
This site is a research and policy organization that is committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights.
What is the Guttmacher Institute?
Narratives that can enable and accentuate distrust toward health professionals and authorities ...that can lead to violent radicalization.
What are conspiracy theories in the context of public health?
This indicator measures the number of deaths of infants under age one per 1,000 live births and is often used to assess a nation’s health status.
What is the infant mortality rate?
What are some ways to address misinformation through one conversation at a time?