Until the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was adopted in 1997, states were not expected to actively promote their public health programs for children or to encourage enrollment. But the availability of new administrative funds under SCHIP for outreach and marketing spurred states to create marketing campaigns to raise awareness about and increase involvement in SCHIP and Medic...

Marine systems across the globe are experiencing myriad pressures with consequences for their health, management and industries communities that depend on them. Critical to improved of our oceans coasts is effective education communication ultimately leads societal value world’s oceans. In Australia, national scientific research agency, CSIRO, operates critical infrastructure such as National F...

Substance abuse during pregnancy continues to affect the lives of families across the United States. Most communities are not organized to deal with the multiple problems that must be addressed when developing intervention and treatment programs for pregnant women. At the same time, many citizens and community organizations may be suspicious of outside investigators stepping in to design outrea...

The American College of Veterinary Surgeons (ACVS), founded in 1965 and recognized by the AVMA in 1970, maintains high standards for surgical training programs and administers rigorous certifying examinations. It provides educational outreach to the veterinary medical profession by presenting scientific programs at ACVS annual meetings, sponsoring the Veterinary Surgical Forum in the USA and Eu...

CONTEXT The federal government enacted the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in 1997 to provide insurance coverage to uninsured, low-income children up to age 19. Individual states' decisions when designing their CHIP efforts will in large part determine the extent to which the program will help the nation's nearly three million low-income uninsured adolescents get needed reprodu...

BACKGROUND There are three main service delivery channels: clinical services, outreach, and family and community. To determine which delivery channels are associated with the greatest reductions in under-5 mortality rates (U5MR), we used data from sequential population-based surveys to examine the correlation between changes in coverage of clinical, outreach, and family and community services a...

With the shift in mental health treatment from psychiatric hospitals to community agencies, mental health workers provide outreach interventions to clientele with increasingly acute psychiatric disorders in their neighborhoods and residences. This article examines job-related, client-perpetrated threats or physical violence against social workers in general, and community outreach mental health...