Child Health
A person under one year of age.
What is an infant?
A syndrome associated with the American Academy of Pediatrics "Back to Sleep" campaign.
What is SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome)?
The conditions in which people are live, work, and play, and are shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources
What are social determinants of health?
This food stamp program was temporarily defunded during the 2025 government shut down.
What is the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP)?
Passed in 2010, this legislation greatly expanded access to health insurance
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Sensation seeking and impulsivity peak during this time of childhood.
What is adolescence?
The U.S. is the only high income that doesn't mandate this benefit for new parents.
What is paid parental leave?
This act established the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and other programs.
What is the Social Security Act of 1965?
A federal grant program that provides family planning services
Babies born before 37 weeks and who are therefore more vulnerable to mortality.
What are premature infants?
This program provides nutritional supplementation and education to low income women and children.
What is WIC (Women, Infants & Children)?
A theory that outlines how our health is 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?
This 1975 legislation ensures CYSHCN have access to educational services
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
The study of the lasting emotional bonds between people, particularly between a child and their primary caregiver.
What is attachment theory?
Services used by 40% of college students during their time at school.
What are Campus Counseling Centers?
A movement created by women of color to work against reproductive oppression
What is reproductive justice?
This professional organization grew out of the debate within the AMA over the Sheppard-Towner Act
What is the American Academy of Pediatrics?
This program consists of four parts - MCH Services, Services for "Crippled" Children, Child Welfare Services, and Vocational Rehabilitation
What is Title V?
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)?
A deficiency in this micronutrient leads to neural tube defects.
What is folate?
17 goals agreed upon by United Nations members with 160 measurable targets
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
Launched in 1965, this program aims to improve intellectual development of preschool children and increase their access to health care.
What is Head Start?
First legislation to provide grants to states to establish preventive MCH health programs; passed in 1921
What is the Sheppard-Towner Act?