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Pediatricians and family practitioners commonly report providing counseling for child mental health problems. However, the quality and content of mental health counseling delivered in pediatric primary care is not well understood. This study found that parents did not report receiving mental...
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States have undertaken a wide range of efforts to evaluate and report on their Medicaid managed care programs to help ensure that public dollars are being put to good use and that Medicaid beneficiaries are receiving high-quality, efficiently administered care. The report looks at how four...
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Maternal stress interferes with mothers’ ability to parent and has a negative impact on the physical and mental health of children. Pediatric primary care providers often fear that mothers will react negatively to discussion of their own emotional problems, and therefore, do not address...
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Although contract negotiations between health plans and providers have remained tense during the past two years, overt … from plans in the form of significant payment rate increases and more favorable contract terms. Many plans have recognized … their interests to accommodate provider demands for higher payments, rather than resist them and possibly trigger a contract …
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This report from the field describes the design, implementation, and early evaluation results of the Healthy Weight …
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This paper presents estimates of TTW impacts on service enrollment, earnings, and benefit amounts during the first two years of program implementation. Estimates indicate that TTW had a small impact on promoting service enrollment during the first year of rollout. However, there is no compelling...
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This report, the second from a large-scale study for the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences of four early math programs, shows that the curriculum used by the study schools mattered. The study examined (1) Investigations in Number, Data, and Space (Investigations),...
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This report describes the research and policy context for the evaluation, logic model underlying the projects, and …
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Text4baby is a free text messaging program for pregnant women and new mothers with an infant up to one year of age, designed to improve maternal and child health (MCH) among underserved populations in the United States.
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