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December 19, 2012 Issue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reducing Health Disparities Among Children  

 

 

 

This issue includes

Innovations:

• Community Health Workers Support Latino Families With Asthmatic Children
• State Policy Allows for Automatic Enrollment of Qualified Low-Income Children in Medicaid
• Text Messages Increase Influenza Immunization Rate for Low-Income, Minority Children

QualityTools:

• A Guide to Improving Children's Oral Health Care: Tools for the Head Start Community
• Improving Cultural Competency in Children's Health Care: Expanding Perspectives
• Improving Outcomes for Children in Child Welfare: A Medicaid Managed Care Toolkit

Next issue: Medical Home Models for Specialty Care

Articles & Guides
Access resources for problem-solving and innovation adoption.

Antimicrobial Resistance Still Poses a Public Health Threat: A Conversation With Edward J. Septimus, MD, FIDSA, FACP, FSHEA, Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center

Challenges Facing Rural Health Care: A Conversation With Brock Slabach, Senior Vice President for Member Services at the National Rural Health Association

Spotlight On...

New Perspective
Public- and Private-Sector Initiatives Are Reducing Health Disparities Among Children: A Conversation With Kathryn Santoro, MA, Director of Policy and Development for the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation

Million Hearts™ Materials
The Innovations Exchange co-sponsored an April 2012 event titled Million Hearts™ Scaling and Spreading Innovation: Strategies to Improve Cardiovascular Health. A summary report from the event and a two-part video about scaling and spreading Heart 360®, one of the event's featured innovations, are now available on the Taking Innovations to Scale page.

We are interested in hearing from you! Let us know how you have used the Innovations Exchange to improve quality or reduce disparities in your own health care setting by contacting info@innovations.ahrq.gov.