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 News & EventsUpcoming Webinar: Adolescent & Young Adult Health in the Post Reform EraNIHCM will host a webinar, "Adolescent & Young Adult Health in the Post Reform Era," on August 17, 2010 at 1:00... New Issue Brief on Perinatal Oral HealthNIHCM Foundation and the Children's Dental Health Project are pleased to announce the release of a new Issue Brief, "... Creating Healthy Opportunities: Conversations with Adolescent Health ExpertsNIHCM Foundation, in collaboration with the Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent Health (PIPPAH) initiative, is please... New Issue Brief on Maternal DepressionNIHCM Foundation is pleased to announce the release of a new Issue Brief, "Identifying & Treating Maternal Depressio... New Expert Voices: Our Unsustainable Budget SituationNIHCM Foundation is pleased to announce the release of a new article in our Expert Voices series, "Our Unsustainable Bud... 2010 WINNERS NAMED IN HEALTH CARE JOURNALISM AND RESEARCH AWARDSThe National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the Sixteenth Annu... |
Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent Health (PIPPAH)In September 2006, NIHCM Foundation received a 5-year cooperative agreement, “Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent Health (PIPPAH),” with the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). Through this project, NIHCM Foundation will strengthen the leadership, capacity and infrastructure of its member health plans to promote and improve adolescent health. This project is important due to the critical decisions made by health plan executives about the content, organization and financing of health services for adolescents. Under the guidance of “The National Initiative to Improve Adolescent Health by 2010” and with the help of member health plans, NIHCM Foundation has identified adolescent health priority issues that it will promote and facilitate collaborative activities towards, including: prevention and treatment of chronic disease, mental health services, public-private strategies to improve adolescent health care, Medicaid/SCHIP, and encouraging adolescents’ use of recommended health care services. Please visit the Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health portion of our website for more information about the PIPPAH project & our partner grantees. Improving Understanding of Maternal & Child Health (IUMCH)In April 2005, NIHCM Foundation received a 5-year grant with the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). The project is entitled “Improving Understanding of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and Health Care Issues (IUMCH) Among Health Plan Decision Makers.” NIHCM Foundation has collaborated with MCHB for the past eight years under two consecutive cooperative agreements to provide information and foster communication to improve maternal and child health. This project is important due to the critically important decisions made by health plan executives about the content, organization and financing of health services for large portions of the MCH population. With the help of member health plans, NIHCM Foundation has identified MCH priority issues around which NIHCM Foundation will facilitate informational and collaborative activities under IUMCH, including: adolescent health, coverage gaps for children and families, depression and suicide, health care disparities, obesity and women’s health. These will build on NIHCM Foundation’s previous work through MCHB on Bright Futures health supervision guidelines, childhood overweight and obesity, health care coverage of children, mental health and women’s health. Each quarter, NIHCM Foundation distributes a newsletter called “Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent's Health Update” that provides the latest developments in policy and research on maternal, child and adolescent health. To sign up for this newsletter, click here. Archived WCHU newsletters from 2003-2006 and archived Child Health Updates from 1998-2003 are available through the link below. This newsletter is produced as part of both the IUMCH & PIPPAH projects. For more information on maternal, child and adolescent health and the NIHCM Foundation’s work under its grants from MCHB, please select from the following: |
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