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100
These were established in 1893 to decrease infant mortality and morbidity due to "summer diarrhea."
What are the Milk Stations?
100
This president convened the first White House Conference on children in 1909.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
100
The discovery of this vitamin in 1935 led to the prevention of hemorrhagic disease in newborns.
What is Vitamin K?
100
These landmark 1965 programs provided health insurance coverage to people over age 65 and to low income women and children.
What are Medicare (Title XVIII) and Medicaid (Title XIX)?
100
The 1994 Baby Back to Sleep campaign was launched to address this health problem.
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)?
200
This organization was founded in 1874 in response to a case of brutal cruelty toward an abused foster child.
What is the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children?
200
This 1918 epidemic killed 20-50 million people worldwide, including millions of otherwise healthy children.
What was the Spanish flu?
200
Enacted in 1935, this Act provided funds to states for Maternal and Child Health, and established programs for maternity, infant, and child care, as well as a full range of medical services for children.
What is Title V of the Social Security Act?
200
In 1984, laws were passed throughout the country requiring all children under the age of 4 years to use one of these when riding in any vehicle.
What are child safety seats?
200
In 1990, these two major Acts provided for civil rights for people with disabilities, including assuring equal access to education for children with disabilities from infancy to age 21.
What are the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
300
This was the first medical specialty society established in the U.S.
What is the American Pediatric Society?
300
This famous and controversial woman established the American Birth Control League in 1921.
Who was Margaret Sanger?
300
Founded in 1951, this medical association continues today to be one of the nation's leading groups of professionals providing health care to women.
What is the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)?
300
This program, which was launched in 1965 to improve the intellectual development of preschool children, had secondary benefits in increasing access to health care services for these children.
What is Head Start?
300
In 1997, this legislation provided nearly $40 billion over a ten-year period to provide medical insurance to children in the U.S.
What is the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)?
400
In 1894, this city was the first to introduce medical inspection of children in public schools, to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in schools.
What is Boston?
400
This organization was established under President Taft to investigate and report on matters related to children and children's health.
What was the Children's Bureau?
400
Signed by President Harry Truman in 1946, this Act was intended to “secure the well-being and health of children as well as to encourage consumption of local food.”
What is the National School Lunch Act?
400
This 1972 program supported state distribution of food (or coupons) to low income pregnant women, nursing mothers, infants, and children considered at nutritional risk.
What is Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)?
400
Surgeon General David Satcher put this often-overlooked health issue in the spotlight with his major Surgeon General’s Report of 2000.
What is oral health?
500
This population became a top priority for the American Federation of Labor in 1899.
Who are child laborers?
500
This 1921 legislation was the first to provide grants to the states to establish preventive health programs for mothers and infants.
What is the Sheppard-Towner Act (aka Maternity and Infancy Act)?
500
In 1952, this physician and Columbia University professor designed the first standardized method of evaluating a newborn's transition to life outside the womb.
Who was Dr. Virginia Apgar?
500
In May 1980 the World Health Assembly officially declared this disease the first one in human history to be completely eradicated.
What is smallpox?
500
In 2011, this physician/researcher, known for exploring racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes and advancing life-course theory, became the director of the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
Who is Dr. Michael Lu?