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Stable Homes Make Healthy Families

WEBUnstable housing among families with children will cost the United States an estimated $111 billion in health and education expenditures over the next ten years, according to …

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Access to High-Quality, Affordable Child Care: Strategies to …

WEBFeatured. Access to High-Quality, Affordable Child Care: Strategies to Improve Health. High-quality, nurturing, and affordable child care is essential to support …

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Housing is health: A renewed call for federal housing investments …

WEBDecades of research demonstrate the importance of a safe, stable, affordable home as a foundation for health beginning in the prenatal period and …

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Housing Prescriptions as Health Care

WEBOverview of Project. Housing Prescriptions as Health Care was an innovative project led by Children’s HealthWatch at Boston Medical Center from 2016-2020 in response to the …

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Meeting Housing Needs Improves Health Outcomes for At-Risk …

WEBThe program is led by Children’s HealthWatch at Boston Medical Center. Between the years 2016 and 2019, the HPHC pilot program enrolled 78 families to …

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The Housing Opportunity Gap

WEBPublished in September 2021, Children’s HealthWatch and Opportunity Starts at Home ‘s new policy publications highlight research on the importance of housing for child and …

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The Hidden Health Crisis of Eviction

WEBEviction often leads to residential instability, moving into poor quality housing, overcrowding, and homelessness, all of which associated with negative health among …

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Should Physicians ‘Prescribe’ Housing for the Homeless

WEBMegan Sandel, MD, MPH, a pediatrician at Boston Medical Center (BMC) in Massachusetts, told Medscape Medical News, “I do believe that housing is a …

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SNAP, Young Children's Health, and Family Food Security and …

WEBIntroduction: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest nutrition assistance program in the U.S. This study’s objective was to examine …

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CHILDREN’S HEALTHWATCH PoLICy Action BRIEf THE …

WEBChildren’s HealthWatch has developed the Hunger Vital Sign, a 2-question screening tool to identify young children in households at risk of food insecurity. Compared to young …

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SNAP Is Medicine for Food Insecurity

WEBResearch demonstrates that SNAP protects children’s health by reducing FI and improving families’ ability to meet their other basic needs. SNAP can improve …

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Food Insecurity and Hunger in the U.S.: New Research

WEBChildren’s HealthWatch and the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) published a tri-annual newsletter from 2014-2016 about new research on nutrition and food insecurity in …

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Diagnosing the youth mental health crisis

WEBTHE CITY OF BOSTON recently announced a new $21 million initiative to address the urgent need for more mental health services and programs for youth and …

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Safety Net Hospitals: Why BIPOC Wealth Creation is Needed to …

WEBSafety net academic hospitals, which are often neglected in US healthcare policy, are natural backbone organizations to work alongside grassroots groups and …

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Beyond Housing: Examining Negative Effects of Household …

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'Imminent Danger': Millions set to lose Medicaid, food benefits …

WEBOriginally published in Common Dreams. In less than three months, millions of people across the U.S. could be kicked off Medicaid and see their food benefits …

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Hunger In Our Backyard

WEBSpoke on a panel at the 2013 James Beard Foundation Food Conference in New York, NY.

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Written Testimony to the Massachusetts Joint Committee on …

WEBOn July 23rd, Children’s HealthWatch submitted written testimony before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Health Care Financing in support of the Senate Bill …

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and Global Policy

WEBchildren Editorial Constructing Invisible Walls through National and Global Policy Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba 1,*, Allison Bovell-Ammon 2 and Diana Becker Cutts 3 1 Children’s …

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