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HHS Initiative to Improve Maternal Health
The Department’s Action Plan lays out a vision for improving maternal health that applies a “life course” approach organized around four goals and it sets three ambitious targets to achieve this vision. Each of the four goals includes multiple objectives and action items to drive progress. The Action Plan also describes the current state of maternal health outcomes in the U.S., challenges in reducing maternal mortality and morbidity, recent efforts to improve maternal health within and beyond the federal government, and it discusses various forums in which HHS leadership sought input from key stakeholders.
Reports
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Advanced SearchA National Strategy to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Despite the recent decline in the teen birth rate, teen pregnancy remains a significant problem in this country. Most teen pregnancies are unintended. Each year, about 200,000 teens aged 17 and younger have children. Their babies are often low birth weight and have disproportionately high infant mortality rates. They are also far more likely to be poor.
Coordinated Community Responses to Domestic Violence in Six Communities: Beyond the Justice System
by Sandra J. Clark, Martha R. Burt, Margaret M. Schulte and Karen Maguire of the Urban Institute for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation, October, 1996.
Consumer Direction in Home and Community-Based Services: Research Project Descriptions
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Service Utilization and the Individual, Family, and Neighborhood Characteristics of Children with Disabilities in Illinois
Robert Goerge, Lucy Mackey-Bilaver, Bong Joo Lee, David Koepke and Allison Harris University of Chicago, Chapin Hall Center for Children
Service Utilization and the Individual, Family, and Neighborhood Characteristics of Children with Disabilities in Illinois
Robert Goerge, Lucy Mackey-Bilaver, Bong Joo Lee, David Koepke and Allison Harris
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
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Cost of Care for Medicaid-Enrolled Children with Selected Disabilities
The purpose of this study is to estimate and compare costs of care for children with 11 selected chronic conditions, to compare these costs with costs of care for children without any of these conditions, and to identify whether selected demographic variables are associated with cost variation.