CDV 423 Exam 3 || 100% Correct Answers

What is considered low birth weight? correct answers · Low birth weight: 5.5 lbs · Very low birth weight: 3.3 lbs Asthma correct answers · Most common chronic illness and the most prevalent cause of disability among children in the US · Prevalence has more than doubled since 1990 · 3rd leading cause of hospitalization among children younger than 15 · Accounts for 14 million missed school days · 2nd most costly health problem among children in the US The role of The Affordable Care Act in addressing insurance gaps. correct answers · Provides grants to states to fund evidence-based programs to educate adolescents about abstinence and conception to prevent HIV, STIs, and pregnancy · Targets adolescents who are in foster care or homeless, live in rural areas or areas with high teen birth rates, or are from racial or ethnic minority groups What does Title XXI and SCHIP do for low-income children? correct answers · Legislations to expand health insurance safety net, provide net coverage for low-incoem children who are not eligible for Medicaid What does Children's Bureau do? correct answers · Was the first to study and address the high rates of infant mortality What is a medical home? correct answers · Partnership with families to ensure that children and youths are receiving care that is "accessible, family-centered, coordinated, comprehensive, continuous, compassionate, and culturally effective" · Leads to significantly less delay in seeking care and fewer unmet health care needs for family support services What is the trend in teen pregnancy? correct answers · Teen pregnancy rate/ trend has decreased What does the Teen Pregnancy Prevention initiative do? correct answers · Focused on replicating programs that have proven effectiveness · Allocated funds to develop and test innovative models and new strategies for preventing teen pregnancy · Developed a collaboration with the CDC to develop community-wide multicomponent interventions What type of programs are/aren't effective? correct answers The most effective sexuality education programs are comprehensive in nature, incorporating both abstinence and discussion of safer sex options School-Based-Adolescent Health Care Program What does it do? correct answers · Primary care