..., and the powers of the federal government vis-a-vis states and individual citizens. Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Child Health in the Workplace: The Supreme Court in Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) Lawrence R. Berger and S. Ryan...

... the nature, extent, and impact of those changes. This paper examines several monitoring efforts in maternal and child health and recommends additional action at the state level to meet urgent information requirements. Copyright © 1983 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1983...

...Christa Altenstetter; James Warner Bjorkman This paper analyzes the continuity and change in the relationship between federal and state governments in the formation and implementation of child-health programs. After reviewing developments in federal child-health policy since the Sheppard-Towner Act...

...- iticization of previously private issues has been the subject of theoretical discussion by many contemporary scholars of the American welfare state; empirical inves- tigation, however, has been lacking. Making an Zssue ufChildAbuse, which details in depth the transformation of child abuse...

...Martha Minow Viviana A. Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1985), 229 pp., $18.95. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 197 the projects proved...

...Robert P. Stoker Anne-Marie Foltz, An Ounce of Prevention: Child Health Politics Under Medicaid (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982), 254 pp., $27.50 Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1984 342 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law...

...Greg P. Loos; Roy G. Smith; Cyril Roseman Recent enactment of program consolidation block grants proposed by the Reagan administration has left many observers of public health services wondering about the impact of such a change on categorical programs in maternal and child health (MCH). This study...

...Nancy M. P. King; Wanda M. Hunter; Desmond K. Runyan Concerned about the possible detrimental impact of the investigative process and court proceedings on child victims of sexual abuse, many child advocates have proposed extensive evidentiary and procedural revisions of the court process. As part...

...Alice Sardell Malcolm L. Goggin, Policy Design and the Politics of Implementation: The Case of Child Health Care in the American States (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987), 296 pp. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 760 Journal of Health Politics, Policy...

... child malnutrition. Spanning the first three decades of the twentieth century, the malnutrition crisis arose from the confluence of many different events including the invention of nutrition science and new standards for height and weight; international food crises created by world war; the rise...

...-1980s, a consensus among policymakers on the need for federal action to improve child health services resulted in the expansion of Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women and young children and the separation of Medicaid eligibility from eligibility for AFDC. The current phase of child health...

... of Pediatrics. 1990 . Child Health Financing Report 1 (Winter): 1 -3. Budetti , P. , P. Kletke, and J. Connelly. 1982 . Current Distribution and Trends in the Location and Pattern of Pediatricians, Family Physicians, and General Practitioners between 1976 an 1979 Pediatrics 70 : 780 -89...

.... These facts, in combination with the understanding that child health decisions are frequently made in arenas where the interests of children are not well represented, strongly suggest that child health care decision making can be improved. Children's advocacy offers opportunities for such improvement...

...Miranda R. Waggoner Since the 1980s, maternal and child health experts have sought to redefine maternity care to include the period prior to pregnancy, essentially by expanding the concept of prenatal care to encompass the time before conception. In 2004, the Centers for Disease Control...

... of our findings and the likely impact of personhood measures on pregnant women's liberty and on maternal, fetal, and child health. References ABC News 2 . 2012 . “Mother Charged after Baby Born Premature with Drugs in System.” September 13 . www.wkrn.com/story/19538155/mother-charged-after...

..., and allied with advocates for the disabled, the antiabortion movement searched for a test case to guide through the courts. Antiabortion advocate Lawrence Washburn found such a case in Baby Jane Doe, who was being treated at Stony Brook Medical Center. The movement went on to amend the Child Abuse Act...

... evidence to show that at least two pressing problems in American society, namely the uneven distribution of educational attainment and health disparities linked to socioeconomic position, may be ameliorated through policy initiatives that link quality early childhood care, child development programs...