Statewide stay-at-home orders put in place as Tennessee fought to control the spread of coronavirus last March were associated with a 14% lower rate of preterm birth, according to a research letter published today in JAMA Pediatrics.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings, will convene leading children s health experts for Pediatric Priorities: Improving Children s Health in the COVID-19 Era, a virtual event series underwritten by Texas Children s Hospital and focused on some of the most pressing issues facing pediatric providers, parents and young people.
The monthlong program will kick off on Feb. 23 with a
webinar exploring the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on children s health and pediatric hospitals around the country, along with new insights on multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) from Dr. Lara Shekerdemian, chief of critical care at Texas Children s.
(MENAFN - The Conversation) Dr. Nickel is an Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, Research Scientist and Associate Director at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Scientist at the Children s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, and Co-Director of the Manitoba Interdisciplinary Lactation Centre (MILC). Nickel received his Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in Community Health Sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles and his PhD in Maternal and Child Health Policy from the Gillings School of Global Public Health, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Nickel is an applied population health scientist. He uses administrative data to conduct health and social policy research. Nickel s research program centres on examining how social and structural determinants impact population health and well-being and health and social inequities. Within this framework he has conducted evaluation research looking at prog
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Tennessee parents concerned about education, kids’ mental health as COVID-19 presses on
The latest Vanderbilt Child Health Poll release found that many Tennessee parents are worried about the mental health of their children during the COVID-19 pandemic, and over 80% of parents had concerns about their children attending school remotely. The Poll also revealed that schooling practices and mental health concerns have varied widely among Tennessee families of different racial and economic groups.
More than half (52%) of parents were worried about their child’s lack of social interaction with peers of the same age when school is held remotely. Nearly half (48%) are concerned about the lack of one-on-one attention from their child’s teacher. The most recent poll of more than 1,000 Tennessee parents was conducted in fall 2020.
Others are concerned about the side effects of the vaccine or have objections on religious grounds to receiving vaccinations. Still others, especially those in rural areas of the state, aren t sure when they will even have access to the vaccines a concern shared by rural hospitals and health care providers.
TEA plans to survey its own members in January about their feelings toward the vaccine. This month the organization surveyed members about their current working conditions ahead of the start of the legislative session in January.
Many students also aren t likely to get vaccinated
Whether many students will get the vaccine once it is available is also still up in the air.