When you can predict health outcomes based on postcodes, the issue is much more than individual choice.
Mothers and kids in the outer suburbs don't choose to be more obese than those in the inner suburbs. Obesigenic environments drive health inequities.
#obesity #sdoh #publichealth
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/postcode-lottery-means-some-mothers-and-their-babies-are-more-likely-to-be-overweight-or-obese-20250311-p5lipd.html?btis

Event announcement: What Health4All Means for California's Kids: A Conversation with Ricardo Lara, California Insurance Commissioner & Health4All Champion

Hosted by The Children's Partnership (TCP)

Register now:
https://childrenspartnership.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/childrenspartnership/eventRegistration.jsp?event=17&

"'The way we measure poverty is incredibly outdated,' said Beth Jarosz, senior program director at the Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit organization that conducts demographic analyses."

Thanks Noah Sheidlower and Business Insider for telling this important story:

https://bit.ly/3VtX9Bb

Funding opportunity:
The Dept. of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health has a funding opportunity for Community Level Innovations for Improving Health Outcomes

Details: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/349434

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Opportunity:
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities is inviting applications for their Health Disparities Research Institute.

Details on the program and how to apply:
https://www.nimhd.nih.gov/programs/extramural/training-career-dev/hdri/

#Health #Healthcare #HealthEquity #SDoH #MinorityHealth #Research #MedMastodon #PublicHealth @publichealth@a.gup.pe @medmastodon@a.gup.pe @epidemiology@a.gup.pe @epiverse@a.gup.pe

Who gets to play?

Hannah Thompson at UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Rebecca London at UC, Santa Cruz looked at recess lengths at low-income elementary schools in California via a 2020-2021 state survey.

56% of the schools said they gave students more than 20 minutes of recess.

27% gave just 10–19 minutes.

Learn more:
https://bit.ly/482l1A9

#Education #School #Schools #EduTooters #Exercise #PhysicalFitness #MentalHealth #SDoH #Equity
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Children on Medi-Cal, California’s insurance program for its poorest residents, might wait months for urgent psychiatric care, according to an audit released in December.

Learn more in this story from CapRadio. https://bit.ly/48crGsB

NEW: California's child poverty rate (15.3%) remains lower than the national average (16.3%) according to data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Source: https://data.census.gov/map?g=010XX00US$0400000&y=2022&tid=ACSST1Y2022.S1701&cid=S1701_C03_002E&layer=VT_2022_040_00_PP_D1&palette=Reds&breaks=Quantile(5)&mode=thematic&loc=37.8535,-99.2898,z2.9298

NEW: The poverty rate for children more than doubled between 2021 and 2022, as measured by the supplemental poverty rate by the U.S. Census Bureau
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-kits/2023/income-poverty.html

Despite lower infant mortality, disparities in birth outcomes persist. In CA, rates of preterm delivery & low birthweight for infants of Black parents w/ the highest incomes are 1.5x greater than for those of white parents w/ the lowest incomes.

Read more:
https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=10797

As with our recent data update on infant mortality, a new report from CDC shows that fetal mortality has fallen dramatically since the 1990s but disparities remain across demographic groups.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr72/nvsr72-08.pdf

Both statewide and nationally, inequities persist in infant mortality.

Learn more about why and what can be done: https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=10797

Research shows that factors contributing to racial disparities in birth outcomes may have roots in structural racism and related stress.

Learn more: https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=10797

#FactOfTheDay: Of California caregivers who were extremely concerned about their children's safety following relaxed public health measures during the pandemic, the lowest rate belonged to caregivers in the highest annual income bracket ($100,000 or more).

Learn more: https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/2490/covid19-safety-concern-income/table#fmt=3061&loc=2&tf=157&ch=1498,1500,1497,1496,1499,1586,1588,1589,1587

The way housing voucher waitlists are managed unintentionally favors stability, disadvantaging families with the lowest incomes who move often. Learn more: https://www.prb.org/resources/public-housing-vouchers-open-doors-to-better-child-health-new-research-suggests/ #FactOfTheDay #Housing #SafetyNet #SDoH #Children #Families #Housing

According to 2016-2020 estimates, around 1 in 15 American Indian/Alaska Native children ages 0-18 in California had no health insurance coverage, compared with 1 in 25 Hispanic/Latino children, and fewer than 1 in 40 white children. https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/776/health-insurance-race-10k/bar#loc=2&tf=156&pdist=73&ch=201,7,11,726,10,72,9,73
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Receiving a housing voucher during childhood strongly linked to lower hospitalization rates and less inpatient spending during young adulthood.
Learn more: https://www.prb.org/resources/public-housing-vouchers-open-doors-to-better-child-health-new-research-suggests/ #FactOfTheDay #Housing #SafetyNet #SDoH #Children #Families #Housing #Health #Healthcare #MedMastodon @medmastodon@a.gup.pe

Children in households with rental assistance had fewer health problems and missed 22% fewer school days for illness compared with children whose households were waiting for assistance.

Learn more: https://www.prb.org/resources/public-housing-vouchers-open-doors-to-better-child-health-new-research-suggests/

#FactOfTheDay #Housing #SafetyNet #SDoH #Children #Families #Housing #Education #School #SickDay
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Kids who experience housing hardship, like eviction & frequent moving, are more likely to engage in delinquent behaviors, found Sarah Gold's analysis of the FFCWS study of 5,000 children.

What else do we know about housing stability & child well-being?

Read the new research highlight from PRB
https://www.prb.org/resources/public-housing-vouchers-open-doors-to-better-child-health-new-research-suggests/

#FactOfTheDay: The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate of all affluent countries. Learn more about the problem and what can be done: https://www.prb.org/resources/maternal-death-among-u-s-black-women/ #BMHW23 #MaternalMortality #PregnancyRelatedDeath #LastLullabye #Racism #StructuralRacism #Healthcare #SDoH #MedMastodon @medmastodon@a.gup.pe