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Health

The archive section contains all products published before 2007.

Research Briefs

  Food Insecurity and Overweight among Infants and Toddlers: New Insights into a Troubling Linkage
Jacinta Bronte-Tinkew; Martha Zaslow; Randolph Capps; Allison Horowitz
July 2007

  Assessing the Mental Health of Adolescents: A Guide For Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners
Laurie Martin; Alyssa Milot
March 2007

  Assessing Substance Use and Abuse Among Adolescents: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners
Laurie Martin; Alyssa Milot
March 2007

  Assessing the Diet, Exercise, Body Image, and Weight of Adolescents: A Guide For Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners
Laurie Martin; Alyssa Milot
March 2007

  Depression Among Moms: Prevalence, Predictors, and Acting Out Among Third Grade Children
Kristin Anderson Moore; Elizabeth C. Hair; Sharon Vandivere; Cameron B. McPhee; Michelle McNamara; Thomson Ling
March 2006

  Promoting Positive Mental and Emotional Health in Teens: Some Lessons from Research
Jonathan F. Zaff; Julia Calkins; Lisa J. Bridges; Nancy Geyelin Margie
September 2002

  Encouraging Teens to Adopt a Safe, Healthy Lifestyle: A Foundation for Improving Future Adult Behaviors
Juliet L. Hatcher; Juliet Scarpa
July 2002

  A Century of Children's Health and Well-Being
Child Trends
December 1999

  The Health Behaviors of American Parents: Implications for Children
Child Trends
September 1999

Executive Summaries & Full Reports

  Towards Meeting the Needs of Adolescents
Elizabeth Hair; Kevin Cleveland; Stephanie Cochran; Claire Brindis; L. Teresa Valderrama; Jane Park
February 2005

  Background for Community-Level Work on Physical Health and Safety in Adolescence: Reviewing the Literature on Contributing Factors
Juliet Hatcher; Juliet Scarpa
Executive Summary. Prepared for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
December 2001

  Background for Community-Level Work on Mental Health & Externalizing Disorders in Adolescence: Reviewing Literature on Contributing Factors
Jonathan F. Zaff; Julia Calkins
Executive Summary. Prepared for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
December 2001

  Youth Development Outcomes Compendium: Section B - Health and Safety
Zakia Redd; Thomson Ling; Juliet Hatcher; Stephanie Cochran; Julia Calkins
2001

  Risk Factors for Illicit Drug Use: A Longitudinal Study
Kristin A. Moore; Maria Krysan; Christine W. Nord; James L. Peterson
Washington, DC: Child Trends
January 1991

  Behavior Problems Index Based on Parent Report
Nicholas Zill
Washington, DC: Child Trends
November 1990

  Child Health and School Readiness: Background Paper on a National Education Goal
Nicholas Zill
Washington, DC: Child Trends
October 1990

  Improving Assessment of the Effects of Environmental Contamination on Human Reproduction Final Report
Child Trends
Washington, DC: Child Trends
September 1986

  How is the Number of Children With Severe Handicaps Likely to Change Over Time?
Nicholas Zill
Washington, DC: Child Trends
June 25, 1986

  Trends in the Behavior and Emotional Well-being of U.S. Children (Findings from a National Survey)
Child Trends
Washington, DC: Child Trends
January 7, 1982

Speeches, Presentations & Briefings

  Risk Taking and Health Behaviors in Late Adolescence: Co-Occurrence, Predictors and Consequences
Cameron McPhee; Elizabeth Hair; Kristin Moore; Thomson Ling; Michelle McNamara; Claire Brindis
SRCD Biennial Meeting
March 31, 2007

  The Effects of Father Involvement During Pregnancy on Receipt of Prenatal Care and Maternal Smoking
Michelle McNamara; Laurie Martin; Margot Bloch; Elizabeth Hair
SRCD Biennial Meeting
March 31, 2007

  Educational Disparities in Smoking Before, During and After Pregnancy
Laurie T. Martin; Michelle McNamara; Alyssa Milot; Margot Bloch; Elizabeth C. Hair
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development
Boston, MA
March 29, 2007

  Early Return to Work, Long Work Hours and Maternal Depression
Elizabeth C. Hair; Cameron B. McPhee; Alyssa S. Milot; Tamara Halle; Kristin A. Moore
Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference
Madison, WI
November 2, 2006

Maternal Depression and Child Well-Being
Presentation at the National Academy of Science Workgroup Planning Meeting on Maternal Depression
Washington, DC
May 2006

  Predicators of Overweight Among a National Sample of Kindergartners
Heidi W. Smith, MD Elizabeth C. Hair; Stephen Cook; Tamara Halle; Michael Weitzman
Pediatric Academy Societies Annual Meeting
San Francisco, CA
May 2006

  How Do Parenting Behaviors Mediate the Link Between Maternal Depression Symptoms and Child Well-being?
Elizabeth C. Hair; Kristin A. Moore; Sharon Vandivere; Cameron B. McPhee
APPAM Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
November 3, 2005

Trends in Health and Well-being of Children
National Consumer League Press Club Risk and Media Symposium
Washington, DC
October 14, 2005

Trends in the Health and Well-Being of Children
Journalism Fellowships in Child and Family Policy
College Park, MD: University of Maryland
September 28, 2005.

Maternal Education and Child Health Outcomes - Mediating Effects of Prenatal Behavior
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development
Atlanta, GA
2005

  Pathways to Healthy Children: How Parental Education and Child Health Intersect
Elizabeth Hair; Tamara Halle
March 4. 2004

  Public Perceptions of Children's Well-Being
Lina Guzman; Laura Lippman; Kristin A. Moore; William O’Hare
American Association of Public Opinion Research Annual Meeting
Nashville, TN
May 2003

  Social and Emotional Aspects of School Readiness: What's Available in National Data Sources
Tamara Halle; Sharon Vandivere; Lindsay Pitzer; Stephanie Cochran
Society for Research in Child Development 2003 Biennial Meeting
Tampa, FL
April 25, 2003

  Recent Trends in Childrens Physical and Mental Health
Nicholas Zill
Testimony before the Subcomittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism, U.S. Senate, Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Jan. 16, 1991

  On Developing a State Database on Adolescent Health
James Peterson
Adolescent Database Conference
St. Paul, Minnesota
Sept. 20, 1985

Other Publications

Food Insecurity Works Through Depression, Parenting and Infant Feeding to Influence Overweight and Health in Toddlers
J. Bronte-Tinkew - M. Zaslow - R. Capps - A. Horowitz - M. McNamara. Journal of Nutrition, 137:2160-2165. 2007. Read more...

Increasing Access to Program Information: A Strategy for Improving
Adolescent Health
C. Bindis - E. Hair - S. Cochran - K. Cleveland - L.T. Valderrama - M.J. Park. Maternal Child Health Journal. September 2006. Read more...

Children's School Readiness in the ECLS-K: Predictions to Academic, Health and Social Outcomes in the First Grade
E. Hair - T. Halle - E. Terry-Humen - B. Lavelle - J. Calkins. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. September, 2006. Read more...

Do Household Structure and Household Economic Resources Predict Childhood Immunization? Evidence from Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago
J. Bronte-Tinkew - G. DeJong. Population Research and Policy Review, 24 (3), 112-120. June 2005. Read more...

Rethinking Race/Ethnicity, Income and Childhood Asthma: Racial/Ethnic Disparities Concentrated Among the Very Poor
L. A. Smith - J. Hatcher - R. S. Kahn - R. F. Wertheimer. Public Health Reports, 120: 109-120. March/April 2005. Read more...

Towards Meeting the Needs of Adolescents: An Assessment of Federal Adolescent Health Programs and Initiatives
C. Brindis - E. C. Hair - S. Cochran - K. Cleveland - T. Valderrama - J. Park. National Adolescent Health Information Center. February 5, 2005. Read more...

Do Household Structure and Household Economic Resources Predict Childhood Immunizations? Evidence from Jamaica, and Trinidad, and Tabogo
J. Bronte-Tinkew - G. DeJong. Population Research and Policy Review, 24(1): 27-57. January 2005. Read more...

The Positive Perspective on Youth Development
M. E. P. Seligman - M. W. Berkowitz - R. F. Catalano - W. Damon - J. S. Eccles - J. E. Gilham - K. A. Moore - H. J. Nicholson - N. Park - D. L. Penn - C. Peterson - M. Shih - T. A. Steen - R. J. Sternberg - J. P. Tierney - R. P. Weissberg - J. F. Zaff. In D. L. Evans, E. Foa, R. Gur, H. Hendrin, C. O'Brien, M. E. P. Seligman, & B. T. Walsh (Eds.), Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don’t Know (pp. 499-529). New York: Oxford University Press, The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, and The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. 2005. Read more...

Government Policies as External Influences on Work-Family Trade-offs
R. Wertheimer - S. Jekielek - K.A. Moore - Z. Redd. In Bianchi, Casper, King (Eds.), Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2005. Read more...

Integrating Measures of Early Childhood Health and Development into State Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant Plans
H. Grason - C. Hess - K. Van Landeghem - G. Silver - B. Brown - E. Schor. Baltimore, MD: Women's and Children's Health Policy Center. June, 2004. Read more...

Children's Nutrition in Jamaica: Do Household Structure and Household Economic Resources Matter?
J. Bronte-Tinkew - G. DeJong. Social Science and Medicine,58(3): 499-514. February 2004. Read more...

  Unsupervised Time: Family and Child Factors Associated with Self-Care
Sharon Vandivere - Kathryn Tout - Martha Zaslow - Julia Calkins - Jeffrey Capizzano. Assessing the New Federalism series. Urban Institute. April 2003

Self-Esteem, Personality and Achievement in High School: A Prospective Longitudinal Study in Texas
E. C. Hair - W. G. Graziano. Journal of Personality, 71: 971-994. 2003.

Positive Development of the Self: Self-concept, Self-esteem, and Identity
J. Zaff - E. Hair. In M.H. Bornstein, L. Davidson, D.L.M. Keyes, K.A. Moore, & The Center for Child Well-Being (Eds.), Well-being: Positive Development Across the Life Course. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2003. Read more...

How Do Maternal Risk Factors Affect Children in Low-Income Families?: Further Evidence of Two-Generational Implications
E. C. Hair - S. M. McGroder - M. J. Zaslow - S. K. Ahluwalia - K. A. Moore. Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, 23: 65-94. 2002.

Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Low Literacy as Potential Barriers to Employment in a Sample of Families Receiving Welfare: Are There Two-
M. Zaslow - E. Hair - M. R. Dion - J. Sargent - S. Ahluwalia. Women and Health, 32: 211-252. 2001.