Deterrents to well-child supervision.

Child abuse reporting: teachers' perceived deterrents.

OBJECTIVE There are three general objectives: First, to determine the number of reports of abuse made by teachers, their knowledge of child abuse laws and reporting procedures, and their perceived deterrents in reporting abuse; second, to determine if there were gender or ethnic differences in reporting; and third, to evaluate teachers responses to case vignettes. METHOD A survey of 197 teach...

Rethinking well-child care.

THE COMMONWEALTH FUND ONE EAST 75TH STREET NEW YORK, NY 10021-2692 TEL 212.606.3800 FAX 212.606.3500 E-MAIL [email protected] http://www.cmwf.org The nation’s system of preventive pediatric care requires major revisions if chronic health problems and unmet behavioral and developmental needs among American children are to be addressed, so reports The Commonwealth Fund’s Edward L. Schor, M.D., in “Re...

The well-designed child

This article is inspired by recent psychological studies confirming that a child is not born a blank slate but has important innate capabilities. An important part of the “learning” required to deal with the three dimensional world of objects, processes, and other beings was done by evolution. Each child need not do this learning itself. By the 1950s there were already proposals to advance arti...

Chronically homeless women's perceived deterrents to contraception.

CONTEXT Despite the growing number of homeless women of reproductive age, little is known about their reproductive health and contraceptive use. METHODS A representative sample of 974 currently homeless women surveyed in Los Angeles County in 1997 included 229 who were chronically homeless and at risk for unintended pregnancy. The relationships between perceived deterrents among these women a...

21st century well-child care.