Unit 1: Foundations
Article 1 – Health and Social Care of Women, Children, Youth and Families
Peter C. van Dyck, MD, MPH and Michael D. Kogen, PhD
Article 2 – Health Care and Health Care Policy in a Changing World
Donald A. Barr, Philip R. Lee, and A. E. Benjamin
Article 3 – The Maternal and Child Health Leadership Institute: Putting the Health for All Framework into Action
Barbara J. Hatcher, PhD, MPH, RN
Article 4 – Demographic Factors Affecting Fertility Patterns in the United States
Stephanie J. Ventura, MA
Article 5 – The American Family: Changes and Challenges for the 21st Century
Sandra L. Hofferth
Article 6 – Nutrition Issues for Mothers, Children, Youth and Family
Jamie Stang, PhD, MPH, RD and Mary Story, PhD, RD
Article 7 – Integrating the Roles of Health Surveillance, Performance Monitoring and Systems Evaluation
Donna J. Petersen, MHS, ScD and Greg R. Alexander, MPH, ScD
Unit 2: Social Welfare
Article 1 – Combating Family Poverty: A Review of the American Welfare System
Sandra Wexler, PhD, ACSW
Article 2 – Did Welfare Reform Work? Implications for 2002 and Beyond
Sandra Hofferth
Article 3 – The Effects of Welfare Reform on the Reproductive Health of Women
Arden Handler, Meagan Zimbeck, Wendy Chavkin, and Kathleen Adams
Article 4 – The Social Security Act and Maternal and Child Health Services: Securing a Bright Future
Woodie Kessel, Kenneth Jaros, and P. Travis Harkerl
Article 5 – Head Start
Anne Cohn Donnelly and Frederick Green
Article 6 – Child Care
Robert C. Fellmeth
Article 7 – Community-Based Coalitions: The Health Start Initiative
David S. de la Cruz, PhD, MPH and Maribeth Badura, MSN, RN
Article 8 – Children in Foster Care: Challenges in Meeting Their Health Care Needs Through Medicaid
Margo Rosenbach, Kimball Lewis, and Brian Quinn
Unit 3: Health Expenditures and Health Insurance
Article 1 – Inflation Spurs Health Spending In 2000
Katharine Levit, Cynthia Smith, Cathy Cowan, Helen Lazenby, and Anne Martin
Article 2 – Health Insurance of Children and Youth
Yun Yi Hung, PhD, MPH, et al.
Article 3 – The State Children’s Health Insurance Program: A Progress Report
Shelly Gehshan, MPP
Article 4 – The Supplemental Security Income Program for Children
John Reiss, Helen M. Wallace, and Merle McPherson
Article 5 – Managed Care and Children
Dana Hughes, DrPH and Sarah Arzaga
Article 6 – Adolescent Health
Donald E. Greydanus, MD
Unit 4: Health Issues
Article 1 – Women’s Health Care
Mary Brucker
Article 2 – Women’s Health Care: Issues and Challenges
Mary Brucker
Article 3 – Childhood Immunizations
Lance E. Rodewald, MD and Jeanne M. Santoli, MD, MPH
Article 4 – Oral Health in Maternal and Child Health
Paul S. Casamassimo, DDS, MS
Article 5 – Emergency Medical Services and Children: A Growing Concern
David Heppel, MD
Article 6 – The Progress and Potential of Injury Prevention
Allen Bolton, MPH, MBA et al.
Article 7 – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Laurel K. Leslie, MD and Martin T. Stein, MD
Article 8 – The Epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in the United States
Laurie D. Elam-Evans, PhD, MPH, Norma S. Harris, PhD, MSPH, and Hazel D. Dean, ScD, MPH
Article 9 – Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the United States
Kimberley Fox, MD, MPH
Article 10 – Child Abuse and Neglect
Patti R. Rosquist, MD and Richard D. Krugman, MD
Article 11 – Homeless Women and Their Children in the 21st Century
Peter Sherman, MD and Irwin Redlener, MD
Article 12 – Ensuring Substance Abuse Services for Families
Ellen Hutchins, ScD, MSW
Article 13 – Infant Mortality in the United States: Levels, Trends and Interventions
Marian F. MacDorman, PhD, Solomon Iyasu, MBBS, MPH, and T.J. Mathews, MS
Unit 5: Policy Issues
Article 1 – Prevention for Health
Solomon Iyasu, MBBS, MPH and Hani K. Atrash, MD, MPH
Article 2 – Maternal and Child Health: Back to the Future
Karen VanLandeghem and Catherine A. Hess
Article 3 – Social Policy Reform and America’s Cities: Risk and Opportunity for Maternal and Child Health
Magda G. Peck, ScD and Debora Barnes-Josiah, PhD
Article 4 – Steps for the Future
Naomi M. Morris, MD, MPH