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Jun 11, 2020
Streamlining Preventive Care for Moms and Babies in First Year of Life
High-quality preventive health care for both mom and baby is critical to promoting long-term health and should begin at birth. Recommended pediatric…
Jun 10, 2020
COVID-19 Outlook: The Memorial Day Effect Comes into View
We are in the midst of the most important weeks of our COVID-Lab forecasts, at least as they pertain to the outlook for summer. More than two…
Jun 08, 2020
Supporting Families of Children with Special Educational Needs Amid COVID-19
Last month, we recognized Mental Health Awareness Month through a blog post series that brought much-needed attention to just some of the…
Jun 05, 2020
Spiking Rates of Gun Purchases During COVID-19 Pandemic Put Youth at Risk
Since the beginning of March, there has been an increase of 43% in the number of children killed unintentionally by firearms. Staggering…
Jun 04, 2020
Community Resource Connects: Linking Families to Social Services During the Coronavirus Pandemic
COVID-19 has hit families and communities not just with a medical crisis, but a social crisis as well. As we all sheltered in place, many…
Jun 03, 2020
COVID-19 Outlook: Hope for a (Relatively) Normal Summer
Our forecast models this week for COVID-19 transmission across 389 counties in the United States come at a time of upheaval and heartbreak…
May 28, 2020
What COVID-19 Reveals about the Value of Telemedicine for Children’s Mental Health
On a sunny morning in May, I sat at my kitchen table, coffee in hand, waiting for my Epic app to connect. Suddenly, I saw the bright smile of my…
May 27, 2020
COVID-19 Outlook: Finding a New Equilibrium as We Flatten the Curve
As we analyze the second of our weekly updates to the PolicyLab COVID-Lab model, we can see that community norms and distancing behaviors are…
May 26, 2020
Cope. Recover. Grow. Responding to the Behavioral Health Crisis Caused by COVID-19
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and this year, there is no better theme than Tools 2 Thrive. Amid the rising health and economic concerns…
May 21, 2020
Foster Youth Experience Higher Health Care Utilization & Higher Mortality. How Can Data Help?
Every medical diagnosis is built upon history—the history of current symptoms, past symptoms and, ideally, a complete and detailed medical…
May 20, 2020
Counties are Relaxing Social Distancing. What Could That Mean in the Short-term?
It’s been two weeks since you last heard from our team at PolicyLab and the University of Pennsylvania on our county-level…
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