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December 2007 Edition
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Many Children Struggling After ’05 Storms | At least 46,600 children along the Gulf Coast are still struggling with mental health problems and other serious aftereffects of 2005 hurricanes, according to a new study by the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and the Children’s Health Fund.
Many of these children are performing poorly in school and have limited access to medical care, according to the study, which combines government statistics with data collected by a group of researchers that has been closely following about 1,250 families displaced by the storm.
The children most at risk are those who have returned to their home states of Louisiana and Mississippi but lack stable living situations, the study says.
They are children like Nicole D. Riley’s daughter Isis, who is about to turn 4. Her family left New Orleans the day before Hurricane Katrina and moved five times over a short period before ending up in the large government-operated trailer park in Baker, La .....Full Story
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Despite a recent uptick in enrollment in nursing programs, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is expressing concern that more than 30,000 qualified applicants have been turned away from nursing programs this year, largely because of a growing shortage of nursing faculty, AHA News Now reports. Preliminary data from the 27th annual AACN survey, which was based on data provided by 427 nursing schools, finds that enrollment in entry-level baccalaureate nursing programs increased by 4.98 percent between 2006 and 2007. However, this increase fell short of the 16.6 percent boost seen in 2003. The number of graduates from entry-level baccalaureate programs, meanwhile, increased by 7.4 percent from 2006 to 2007, compared with 18.4 percent one year earlier ..... Full Story
| Painful, time-consuming, costly and wasteful – that’s what some experts think about the practice of routinely removing and re-inserting the peripheral catheters or ‘drips’ that provide patients with lifesaving fluids.
Now a definitive study getting underway in three Queensland hospitals will help provide the evidence on whether or not the practice is ineffective and unnecessary ..... Full Story
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| The Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC), which provides food assistance to low income mothers and their babies/small children has had its first major modification in three decades. Whole grains, fruit and vegetables have been added to the list of items the US government will cover. The WIC, which was created in 1972, complements the nutritional requirements of participants - a new thrust is helping combat obesity. Currently, 8.5 million mothers in the USA are participants in this program.
Current benefits of approximately $39 per month do not change. Participants can buy the revised list of food with their WIC vouchers.
A participant can swap items, e.g. whole wheat bread can be swapped for soft corn tortillas, or canned/frozen fruit and/or vegetables. The aim is to reflect the cultural diversity of participants.
There are inducements to encourage women to breastfeed, and continue breastfeeding .....Full Story
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 — The birth rate among teenagers 15 to 19 in the United States rose 3 percent in 2006, according to a report issued Wednesday, the first such increase since 1991. The finding surprised scholars and fueled a debate about whether the Bush administration’s abstinence-only sexual education efforts are working. The federal government spends $176 million annually on such programs. But a landmark study recently failed to demonstrate that they have any effect on delaying sexual activity among teenagers, and some studies suggest that they may actually increase pregnancy rates.
“Spending tens of million of tax dollars each year on programs that hurt our children is bad medicine and bad public policy,” said Dr. David A .....Full Story
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