View the video abstract for this article here.Objective: Owing to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many developmental-behavioral pediatric (DBP) practices adopted telehealth for care delivery. However, telehealth access and use for families with a preferred language…

Timely identification of fetal conditions enables comprehensive evaluation, counseling, postnatal planning, and prenatal treatments. This study assessed the existing evidence on how social determinants of health (SDOH) influence diagnosis timing of fetal conditions appropriate for care…

PolicyLab responded to a request for comment from the Pennsylvania Bureau of WIC on the 2025 WIC State Plan of Program Operation and Administration.In their response, PolicyLab experts offered recommendations to help increase uptake rates in Pennsylvania’s WIC program and to lower…

Increasingly, youth experiencing mental health crises present to acute care medical hospitals and "board" on medical units due to inpatient psychiatric bed shortages. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of children experiencing mental health boarding at a US children's hospital…

Access to safe, clean, affordable menstrual products is a basic health care and human right. While we continue to develop the research on menstrual health, there are strategies decision-makers in education, health and human services and other sectors can implement to improve menstrual…

BACKGROUND: Telehealth uptake increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, including for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) assessment by developmental-behavioral pediatric (DBP) clinicians. However, little is known about the acceptability of telehealth or its impact on equity…

With recognition of the inextricable links between the social determinants of health, health status, and health disparities, efforts led by the policy, payer, and healthcare sectors to address food insecurity and other unmet social needs have gained momentum in recent years…

Telehealth is a promising way to address pediatric workforce challenges and improve access to care, particularly for families who don’t live close to specialty care. However, PolicyLab research has highlighted reason to be concerned about equity of telehealth access, particularly for…

More than 1 in 3 US children live in households with incomes less than 150% of the federal poverty level. Experiencing childhood poverty can have profound negative impacts on children’s health. Nondirected cash transfer programs, such as the 2021 expanded Child Tax Credit (eCTC),…

The peak of the COVID-19 pandemic led to decreased maternal and child health care engagement, especially among marginalized populations. Existing disparities in prenatal care access and quality faced by pregnant immigrant people are likely to be amplified by the pandemic. We conducted…