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Study: Poverty impacts babies learning ability in their first year
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NewsWorks WHYY
Jul 18, 2017
New research from Dr. Hallam Hurt finds that poverty can slow a baby's language and cognitive development even before the first birthday.
CHOP PolicyLab’s Outsized Impact on Youth and Families
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Penn LDI
Jul 12, 2017
PolicyLab members were honored as part of the University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Insitute of Health Economic's 50th Anniversary celebration. Several PolicyLab members are fellows and senior fellows at LDI.
What Should We Do About Children’s Health Coverage?
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The Incidental Economist
Jul 10, 2017
This article highlights several policy recommendations from PolicyLab Director Dr. David Rubin on improving health care coverage and access for children.
Children Have the Most to Lose in Proposed Medicaid Cuts
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Cornerstone
Jun 29, 2017
Director Dr. David Rubin discusses how recent health care reform proposals risk undoing standards that were designed to maximize child development and well-being by cutting Medicaid funding and fundamentally changing the…
Sounding The Alarms On Children’s Health Coverage
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Health Affairs Blog
Jun 27, 2017
PolicyLab director David Rubin highlights the importance of keeping children in the health care reform conversation, as well as what potential health care reforms could mean for children, adolescents and families.
Primary Care Perspectives Podcast: Measles
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Primary Care Perspectives
Jun 26, 2017
Primary Care Perspectives, a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia podcast, recently featured PolicyLab’s Kristen Feemster, MD, MPH, MSPH. In the episode, Dr. Feemster discusses the resurgence in highly infectious diseases like the…
Suburban Docs and Parents are OK Talking About Food Insecurity
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Reuters
Jun 21, 2017
PolicyLab researcher Dr. Deepak Palakshappa discusses his new research which found that screening for food insecurity in suburban primary care practices was feasible and acceptable to both caregivers and physicians.
Why Child Abuse in Military Families May Be Going Unreported
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Pew Stateline
Jun 07, 2017
A PolicyLab study found that one in five U.S. Army soldiers’ children who received a medical diagnosis of child abuse or neglect had a corresponding report substantiated by the U.S. Army Family Advocacy Program.
Meet the CHOP Mentors Changing Research Trainees’ Lives
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Cornerstone
Jun 06, 2017
Dr. Joanne Wood was recognized with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Award for Excellence in Mentoring Research Trainees for effectively guiding the training and professional development of postdocs and research…
Community Celebrates Sixth Leading Healthy Change Book
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Healthy NewsWorks
Jun 02, 2017
PolicyLab's Dr. Sen Virudachalam was recognized in this year's "Leading Healthy Change In Our Communities 2017," the sixth in a series of Healthy NewsWorks books on leaders who are making the Philadelphia region healthier. …
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