Search Results for 'Child'

Grant for Wyo children's mental health treatment

Wyoming has been awarded a federal grant to help improve treatment of children with serious behavioral health disorders. The children involved are enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. The CHIP pr [...]

Posted On : Mar, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Children's health numbers available for review in book

The West Virginia KIDS COUNT Fund has been publishing data books broken down by county for 20 years to raise public awareness of the importance of early childhood development. Recently, the 2009 W.Va. data book was released, and Jefferso [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Europe vows to cut environmental risks to children's health

Parma, Italy - Europe's 53 member states of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday pledged to implement national programmes aimed at providing equal health opportunities to children in their countries by 2020. In a final [...]

Posted On : Mar, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Protecting children's health in a changing environment

The health impacts of environmental risk factors - inadequate water and sanitation, unsafe home and recreational environments, lack of spatial planning for physical activity, indoor and outdoor air pollution, and hazardous chemicals - ar [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Children's Dental Care: Maine Better Than Average

The Pew Center on the States has given Maine a grade of "B" for its efforts to provide children with adequate dental care. The policy advocacy group graded all fifty states on eight policy benchmarks it says have been pro [...]

Posted On : Feb, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

What You Need to Know About Your Child's Body and Health

Some parents don't know anything concerning their child's health to the extent that they don't even know the appropriate time to go see the doctor over their child's health problem. Some parents go immediately the child i [...]

Posted On : Jan, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Peaceful Revolution: Don't Gamble With Children's Health

For the first time in American history, adults do not believe that our nation's children will have the opportunities they had to live a happy, healthy, and prosperous life. And over the past five years, the response from our nation's leader [...]

Posted On : Jan, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

Study: Children's health services affected

Hundreds of thousands of South Carolina children are doing without health care, going hungry, coping on their own with mental health problems and lacking intervention for addictions and pregnancies. And in neglecting the needs of chi [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Powerful Special Interests Should Not Trump Children's Healt...

A theologian friend shared the story of taking her car to a Jiffy Lube for servicing. Not having anything to read, she picked up a manual on the coffee table about boating. A chapter on the rules for what happens when boats encounter one an [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

1% of US children affected by autism: study

Autism, a brain disorder that interferes with communication and social skills, affected an estimated one in 110 American 8-year-olds in 2006, according to a federal study released last Friday. The US Centers for Disease Control and Preventi [...]

Posted On : Dec, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Interview Ensuring American children's health

As the debate over healthcare reform rages on in the United States, children's advocates are busy analyzing on how two healthcare bills in the House and in the Senate Finance Committee will affect children of low-income families when a nati [...]

Posted On : Nov, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

World Vision opens children's health clinic downtown Toronto

The World Vision clinic, modeled after a typical African community clinic, will stand in sharp contrast to the now-common sight of parents and children receiving the care they need at Canadian H1N1 flu shot clinics. ozens of local parents a [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Parents asked to inform school of children's health

Besides daily screening of students to detect cases of swine flu, school authorities are now stressing upon educating parents to inform them immediately if their wards are suffering from any flu-like symptoms. HS Mamik, president of the I [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

If your child doesn't have health insurance

Do your kids have health insurance? If not, they may be eligible for KidsCare, Arizona’s children’s health insurance program. More than 250,000 Arizona children – or 3,500 school busloads of children -- lack health insuran [...]