Child Health Research Data & Publications
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06/23/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Testimony for Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce's Hearing on the Comprehensive Health Reform Discussion Draft
Mrs. Edelman testimony before Energy and Commerce Committtee. -
06/19/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Insuring Taylor's Future"
Leigh Bernard expects her seven-year-old twin daughters Taylor and Sydney to grow into productive, self-sufficient adults. That shouldn’t be an unreasonable expectation as they're both bright, active children who are doing well at their school in Glen Allen near Richmond, Virginia. -
06/12/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Bridget's Battle"
Desni and Bob Crock want their two-year-old daughter Bridget to have everything she needs to fight the rare cancer that’s attacking her lung, but they find themselves fighting a second battle at the same time—a battle to survive financially because of soaring health care costs. -
05/27/09
Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Health Factsheet
CDF's Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign is a national and community crusade to engage families, youth, communities and policy makers in the development of healthy, safe and educated children. Poverty, racial disparities and a culture of punishment rather than prevention and early intervention are key forces driving the Pipeline. Inadequate access to healthcare also fuels the Pipeline. For a child, going without regular health care can mean living in poor health, missing days of school, and falling behind in school. -
05/22/09
Comments from the Children’s Defense Fund: Expanding Health Care Coverage: Proposals to Provide Affordable Coverage to All Americans
CDF's comments on “Expanding Health Care Coverage: Proposals to Provide Affordable Coverage to All Americans,” released by the Senate Finance Committee on May 11, 2009. -
05/22/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "A Song for Anna"
Bill La Croix began singing to his daughter Anna as soon as she was born. Picking his banjo, he sang to his little blue-eyed girl about the mountains outside their Victor, Montana, home. But Anna didn’t hear her father’s music. When she was about 14 months old, Bill and Anna’s mother, Amy, discovered their child was deaf. -
05/08/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Insurance CEOs Get Rich While Denying Health Coverage to Children"
Katie Hebert, age 4, is a very sick little girl. She gets severe seizure-like attacks that can last 11 hours from an undiagnosed neuro-developmental disorder. She is deaf in one ear, has a feeding disorder and requires daily medication for asthma... -
05/01/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "The National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy"
After falling for many years, the teen pregnancy rate is again on the rise. According to a report released in March by the National Center for Health Statistics, the teen birth rate increased 5 percent between 2005 and 2007. And a 2007 Centers for Disease Control Youth Risk Behavior Survey reveals that the declines in teenage sexual activity and increases in teenage contraceptive use have come to a standstill. -
05/01/09
Children in the States Factsheets
These factsheets provide basic stats and rankings regarding poverty, health, hunger, child welfare, early childhood development, education and youth at risk for children in 2008 in each state. -
04/10/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "A Public Health Insurance Plan Can Cover All of Our Children"
It’s plain that our nation's health insurance system is broken: 46 million people in America lack health coverage—nine million of them children—and the number of uninsured is growing during the current recession.
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