Portable Dental Care
Overview For low-income families concerned with providing for their children’s basic needs, trying to find a dentist can be the least of many worries. Making oral health care a priority…
Maternal and Child Health in Western New York: A Qualitative Study
Continuing and expanding upon our research in central New York, this study by the New York Academy of Medicine used information from one-on-one interviews with 43 mothers and eight fathers…
Cavity Free Kids
Overview Tooth decay, or dental disease, is the most common chronic disease among young children in the United States. And yet, it’s almost 100% preventable. Healthy teeth are important because…
Improving Services for Pregnant Women and Children 0-1 in Central New York State: Profiling High Risk Communities
In a follow-up to the environmental scan done by Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago to identify needs, existing gaps and strengths in the maternal child health system in...
WHEN Program
Overview In the City of Niagara Falls, 29% of pregnant women are not receiving early prenatal care. About 14% of the babies born in the city are premature and 8.5%…
Maternal and Child Health in Central New York: A Qualitative Study
As part of the process we used to determine our approach to improving maternal and child health in central New York, we commissioned the New York Academy of Medicine to…
Maternal and Child Health Data in Central New York: Profiling High Risk Communities
In 2010, we analyzed data from 2005-2007 births in central New York to identify “hot spot” communities with high poverty rates and a high risk of poor maternal and child…
Expanding Best Practices for Maternal & Child Health
Overview While infant mortality has declined in this country, the United States still ranks last among 17 developed nations, and near the bottom in child mortality and low birth weight….
Maternal and Perinatal Health in Western New York
We commissioned the Western New York Community Health Planning Institute, the planning arm of the P2 Collaborative of Western New York, to replicate an analysis on maternal and child health…
Expanding Midwifery
Overview How women deliver babies in the United States has changed dramatically over the past two decades. The cesarean delivery rate, for example, rose by nearly 60%, peaking at 32.9…