Children's Health
The foundation of
well-being & development
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Child health advocates say plan to scrap Healthy Families will cost, not save (KPCC-FM) |
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Senate Rejects ACA/Exchange Bill (CA Healthline) |
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More Empty Recommendations on Junk Food Marketing to Children (The Huffington Post) |
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Children are less likely to have health insurance in only nine other states aside from California. |
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Co-location of community and family resources in schools has been effective in decreasing student hospitalizations, increasing attendance and improving parents’ involvement in their children’s education. |
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Participation in school-based physical activity programs, such as school sports, promotes teamwork, physical fitness and connectedness, which in turn may lower dropout rates. |
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Child-Centered Health Homes in California |
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Good health is essential to positive outcomes for children and the strength of our society. Unfortunately, several big factors—including lack of affordable health insurance and obesity—are working against children’s health today.
Without rapid intervention, children’s health issues will dramatically impact our future.
The number of children without health coverage is far too high, due to families losing employer-based insurance in the economic downturn and the ballooning cost of coverage making it unaffordable. And, as a result of obesity, children today belong to the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy is projected to be shorter than their parents.
Children Now addresses the issues undermining children’s health and general well-being, with focused work on: health coverage, oral health, the obesity epidemic and integrated services.
Children Now is the leading, nonpartisan, umbrella research, policy development, and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting children's health and education in California and creating national media policies that support child development. The organization also leads The Children's Movement of California.
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