Health
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Featured Publications
Feeding Our Future: Growing Up Healthy with WIC
2009
This report by Children’s HealthWatch highlights the implications of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on very young children. The report details research indicating that WIC improves children’s health as well as reduces the risk of developmental delays.
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The Power of Plain Talk: Exploring One Program's Influence on the Adolescent Reproductive Health Field
2006
This report explores whether there had been a general change or shift in attitudes and beliefs about parental involvement in the adolescent reproductive health field over the past decade, and whether or not Plain Talk had played a role in bringing about that change. The report also covers issues such as access to services and disproportionate rates of pregnancy and STDs among minority populations.
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