Policies to Promote Child Health

This issue of The Future of Children focuses on U.S. child health policy. The articles within the publication present findings such as: a wide range of policies from mental health to family interventions can affect children’s health, child health is generally approached with a crisis-response mentality, limited data exists on cost-effectiveness of child health services, poor and minority children are at the highest risk for health problems, and responsibility for child health is fragmented between families and the various levels of government.