A couple of days ago, I posted a poll "Would You Sell to a Racist Bigot?" As I expected, there were plenty of people who were either racist themselves, or willing to put their distaste for racism aside in order to make a buck. Doesn't surprise me a bit....
The American Psychological Association found that children under 8 digest all commercials in the same way -- whether it's Barney or Matt Lauer, it's all the same, and it's all fact. If children can't understand the difference between fact and persuasion, is it fair to try to influence them? ...
You decide to join the growing ranks of women starting a business. You soon discover running a successful home-based business with your children can make you feel like a hamster trapped on an exercise wheel. This can leave you feeling frazzled and frustrated when caring for your children interferes with...
The European Commission has strengthened its focus on environment and health issues, not only by providing large amounts of funds to its Member States but also by developing policies and action plans, such as REACH (registration, evaluation, authorization of chemicals), SCALE (Science, Children, Awareness raising, Legislation, Evaluation), the European Union...
Innovative ultrasound technology has been one of the major technical improvements in the care of infants and children with congenital heart disease. Echocardiography, using sector (2D), Color Doppler CD, spectral Doppler in Pulsed Wave PW and Continuous Wave CW modes and tissue Doppler techniques, is routinely used for diagnostic examinations...
Program fragmentation might exacerbate disenrollment of children from Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP. Using data from 2001-2004, this paper estimates the number of children who switched programs and the number who "Dropped Out" of public insurance, becoming uninsured despite continuing eligibility. Roughly two million children a...
Disabling fatigue is the main illness related reason for prolonged absence from school. Although there are accepted criteria for diagnosing chronic fatigue in adults, it remains uncertain as to how best to define disabling fatigue and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CFS in children and adolescents. The document aims to identify children...
Working in agriculture has long been recognised as a hazardous occupation, with one of the highest fatal injury rates to workers of any industry. It is the only industry that has to accept the constant presence of children around the worksite, since farms are homes as well as workplaces. That...
The management of burn injuries is reported as painful, distressing and a cause of anxiety in children and their parents. This study investigates whether playing a Virtual Reality VR game, decreases procedural pain in children aged 5-18 years with acute burn injuries. The paper reports on the findings of a...
Teaching kids to deal with conflict effectively and peacefully is perhaps the biggest challenge facing adults today. Children's disagreements both at home and at school can be noisy, physical and psychologically hurtful. The approach to conflict resolution learned and practised in childhood often stays for life. Conflict is part of...
The data show that an increase in government provided old-age pensions is strongly correlated with a reduction in fertility. What type of model is consistent with this finding? We explore this question using two models of fertility, the one by Barro and Becker (1989), and the one inspired by Caldwell...
Inclusive instruction has come to be the preferred means of providing exceptional children with equal access to appropriate education. In the form of transition and developmental bilingual education programs, it is also the most common type of bilingual education for culturally and Linguistically Diverse CLD Children. This paper discusses the...
The American Apparel & Footwear Association reminds all parents and guardians about the importance of children's safety as the 2004 holiday season approaches. Along with enjoying the excitement of the holidays, they need to exercise continued awareness of potential harm to their children. They must be extra cautious with the...
This paper uses data from the Fragile Families Study (N = 3317) to document the number of changes in maternal romantic partnerships experienced by children between their birth and age 3, particularly children born to unmarried mothers. The paper also examines the association between partnership instability and parenting, child health...
A staggering 5 to 15 percent of Americans?14.5 to 43.5 million children and adults?have dyslexia, a learning disability that makes it difficult to read, write, and spell, no matter how hard the person tries or how intelligent he or she is. For years?until advances in neuroscience helped reveal a biological...
Data from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey MEPS reveal that 4.7 million children were eligible for Medicaid but were uninsured. Numerous changes have occurred in the landscape for children's health insurance since then, including welfare reform and implementation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP. This paper uses...
Concerns over public spending for elders and children are not new. This paper documents a substantial divergence of social welfare spending for children and elders between 1965 and 2000. Looking to the future, the concern is that social welfare spending for children and elders will be driven more by political...
As one struggles to respond to child public health problems in the twenty-first century, the past provides many core lessons. This paper explores three of them: the need to focus on the environment that makes children sick rather than on sick children; the need to attack the biggest problems, not...
The paper depicts that data from a series of medical spending surveys show that uninsurance rates for children have fallen to levels not seen since the late 1970s (about 8 percent). Rates of uninsurance have fallen in particular for poor children. Deteriorating family economic circumstances, along with a weakened safety...
This paper examines successes and shortcomings of the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP. SCHIP is a source of coverage for millions of children, improving their access to health care and sparking innovation in program design and improvements in Medicaid. However, SCHIP adds to the complexity of the insurance system...
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