The opioid crisis continues to take lives and cause harm to both individuals and communities throughout the US, including children. There have been many efforts across many settings to reduce the toll of opioid-associated harm in our society. One such effort is the prescribing of…

LGBTQ+ youth are more likely to experience depression and thoughts and attempts of suicide than their cisgender, heterosexual peers.This Research at a Glance brief highlights research utilizing Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Adolescent Health Questionnaire that found the…

Objective: Research has demonstrated the effectiveness of interventions to reduce organizational skills deficits and homework problems, including the clinic-based Organizational Skills Training (OST-C) program (Abikoff et al., 2013). In this study, OST-C was adapted for schools as…

Importance: Childhood asthma is characterized by pervasive disparities, including 3-fold higher hospitalization rates and 7-fold higher death rates for Black children compared with White children. To address asthma disparities, one must intervene in all lived environments…

In the United States, equitable research and health communication requires translation of words and concepts into languages other than English. This process often goes beyond using a translation dictionary, as common English words often do not have a “word-for-word" equivalent and the …

Health services researchers can impact policies in clinical spaces, hospital administration, public health, and the legislative world. But to do so, they must understand that the implications of their findings, and how such findings may speak to different stakeholders, are…

Pregnancy and infant health outcomes in the US continue to lag behind other countries with similar economic performance, with rates of infant and neonatal mortality and preterm birth typically 2 to 3 times higher than that of other high-income nations. These adverse outcomes also…

Many children living with perinatally acquired HIV have now survived to adolescence/early adulthood. They are joined by those who acquired HIV as adolescents, with those aged 15−24 years representing the largest proportion of new HIV diagnoses globally. Adolescence sees rapid cognitive…

Objectives: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provide essential nutrition support for low-income families. However, many eligible families do not receive or fully redeem these…

Objective: Not all individuals self-identify with race categories on birth certificates, selecting "Other" and writing in identities. Our hypothesis was that curating write-in responses in the "Other" race category would contribute to understanding preterm birth inequities.Methods…