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The Economic Returns from Investing in Early Childhood Programs in the Granite State
We assessed investments in early childhood programs in New Hampshire, summarizing benefits and economic returns of three early intervention strategies and estimating costs and benefits of statewide investments in programs for at-risk children.
Feb 15, 2017
Report
The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Early Childhood in New Hampshire
Stakeholders in the public and private sectors in New Hampshire have been focused on investments in young children. What do they need to know?
Feb 15, 2017
Journal Article
The Role of School Environments in Explaining Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Body Mass Index Among U.S. Adolescents
School characteristics in the fifth and eighth grades showed little additional influence on the racial and ethnic disparities in body mass index observed at school entry in a longitudinal study of elementary and middle school students.
Jun 24, 2016
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Survey Examines Rural Guatemalan Attitudes toward Childhood Illness and Pregnancy
The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, poverty, social support, and health beliefs in this process.
Sep 15, 2010
Journal Article
Endowments and Parental Investments in Infancy and Early Childhood
This article tests whether parents reinforce or compensate for child endowments.
Dec 31, 2009
Journal Article
Which Factors Explain the Decline in Infant and Child Mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh?
The authors use data from the Matlab Demographic Surveillance System on nearly 94,000 singleton live births that occurred between 1987 and 2002 to investigate the extent to which the change in mortality over this period can be explained by changes in repr
Jan 1, 2009
Journal Article
Birth Weight Effects on Children's Mental, Motor, and Physical Development: Evidence from Twins Data
Determine the effect of very low birth weight (VLBW; /=2500 g) children by age 2.
Jan 1, 2009
Journal Article
Factors Influencing the Enrollment of Eligible Extremely-Low-Birth-Weight Children in the Part C Early Intervention Program
Moderate iodine deficiency in Mexican schoolchildren was associated with a 4.26 times higher risk of low IQ. More attention is needed to ensure effective salt iodination processes.
Jan 1, 2009
Journal Article
The Response of Household Parental Investment to Child Endowments
The empirical results of this paper imply that such household parental investments compensate for low endowments, as proxied by low birth weight.
Sep 1, 2008
Report
International Comparison of Neonatal Services
A study commissioned by the UK National Audit Office (NAO) analyses the provision of neonatal services in seven countries: Australia,Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the U.S., Canada, and Sweden. Findings determined that all countries studied use neonatal networks, but with varying levels of formalisation, that low staffing is a problem for UK neonatal services, and that a few international regions are leaders in high-quality neonatal service provision.
Jan 1, 2008
Journal Article
Population-based Assessments of Ophthalmologic and Audiologic Follow-Up in Children with Very Low Birth Weight Enrolled in Medicaid: A Quality-of-Care Study
Finds a shortfall in provision of critical services for children with very low birth weight (<1500 g) at high risk for vision and hearing problems and enrolled in Medicaid. Findings support the importance of enrollment in Early Intervention Program.
Jan 1, 2008
Journal Article
Quality-of-care Indicators for the Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up of Very Low Birth Weight Children: Results of an Expert Panel Process
To develop a set of quality indicators for the neurodevelopmental follow-up care of very low birth weight (VLBW; <1500 g) children
Jan 1, 2006
Journal Article
Mortality Among Very Low-Birthweight Infants in Hospitals Serving Minority Populations
The authors investigated whether the proportion of Black very low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants treated by hospitals is associated with neonatal mortality for Black and White VLBW infants.
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
Fetal Infants: The Fate of 4172 Infants with Birth Weights of 401 to 500 Grams, the Vermont Oxford Network Experience (1996-2000)
There is very little information about long-term outcomes, as the medical and developmental status of few of these infants has been followed carefully
Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article
Indirect Vs Direct Hospital Quality Indicators for Very Low-Birth Weight Infants
Evidence-based selective referral strategies are being used by insurers to ensure that medical care is provided by high-quality providers.
Jan 1, 2004
Research Brief
Is Patient Volume a Useful Quality Measure for Very Low Birthweight Infants?
The goal of the study was to assess how accurately patient volume predicts quality of care for VLBW infants and to compare volume with direct indicators, such as patient mortality.
Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article
Marginal Increase in Cost and Excess Length of Stay Associated with Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections in Surviving Very Low Birth Weight Infants
Nosocomial bloodstream infections (NBIs) are associated with serious morbidity and prolonged length of stay (LOS) in VLBW infants.
Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article
Variations in the Quality of Care for Very-Low-Birthweight Infants: Implications for Policy
Decline in childhood mortality over the past two decades is attributable to improvements in neonatal intensive care for very-low-birthweight infants.
Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article
Socioeconomic Gradients and Low Birth-Weight: Empirical and Policy Considerations
Although a materialist explanation for early-life SES gradients seems the most plausible, more research is needed to discover potential interventions.
Jan 1, 2003
Journal Article
Using Economic Information in a Quality Improvement Collaborative
Overview of neonatal intensive care unit treatment costs for hospitals that participated in the NIC/Q 2000 quality improvement collaborative.
Jan 1, 2003

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RAND Topic:
Birth Weight

Topic Synonyms:
Birth Mass;
Birthweight

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