Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness in a Low-Income, Urban Community Cohort

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This article details the outcomes of a community-based cohort study that was conducted with 275 primarily low-income, urban households to study vaccine effectiveness against influenza in the 2013-2014 season. The vaccine effectiveness within this sample was found to be 62.5%, which was consistent with the national reported estimate of effectiveness of 61%. This has implications for the generalizability of vaccine effectiveness studies, as these studies often do not include non-medically attended patients from low-income areas.
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2016-01-31T19:00:00
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706631/
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2016-02-01
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Everyday Preventive Actions That Can Help Fight Germs, Like Flu

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This handout from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discusses how the flu is spread and provides tips for reducing one’s exposure to the disease. The CDC provides information on everyday actions that can be taken to prevent the flu, how to stop the spread of flu germs in a workplace, and how to protect children from the flu.
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2016-10-23T20:00:00
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https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pdf/freeresources/updated/everyday-preventive-actions-8…
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2016-10-24
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The Opioid Epidemic: From Evidence to Impact

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The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Medicine and the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Health Matters Initiative prepared this report, which looks at the growing crisis related to the U.S. opioid epidemic. It outlines specific and proven recommendations for how to combat the epidemic most effectively, including expanding coverage and accessibility of overdose and reversal drugs and changing the way healthcare professionals, employers, and advocates talk about addiction to reduce stigma. This report is intended as a resource for individuals with opioid-use disorders and their families; clinicians who prescribe opioids and those who treat people with opioid-use disorders; health system administrators; policymakers; researchers; journalists; law enforcement officials; employers; service providers; and agencies at the local, state, and federal level.
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2017-10-01T20:00:00
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https://www.jhsph.edu/events/2017/americas-opioid-epidemic/report/2017-JohnsHop…
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2017-10-02
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Basic Facts about Low-Income Children, Children under 18 Years, 2016

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This factsheet from the National Center for Children in Poverty includes demographic information on low-income children and their families. It includes statistics on program supports used, poverty by geographic region, education levels, race and ethnicity, and age group for children under the age of 18 in 2016.
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2018-01-01T19:00:00
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http://www.nccp.org/publications/pub_1194.html
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2018-01-02
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Using Research and Evaluation to Support Programs that Promote Parents’ Economic Security and Children’s Well-being

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This brief from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) includes consultation with experts and a literature review to determine how to best invest in programs that serve low-income children and adults. It highlights the need for program implementation to integrate research and evaluation findings for programs that combine services for children and adults. Program leaders can also use rapid-cycle testing and collaborate with researchers to quickly inform the field of promising outcomes.
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2018-01-01T19:00:00
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https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/using-research-evaluation-support-program…
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2018-01-02
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Conceptual Frameworks for Intentional Approaches to Improving Economic Security and Child Well-being

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This brief from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) examines several approaches to reduce poverty for low-income children and adults. These frameworks, including change and partnership models, can work together to assist stakeholders in implementation programs, monitoring progress, identifying improvement areas, and seeing results for program participants.
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2017-10-31T20:00:00
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https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/conceptual_framework_brief_201…
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2017-11-01
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What’s Love Got to Do with It? Healthy Romantic Relationships and Teen Pregnancy Prevention

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This webinar, presented by Child Trends, looks at signs of healthy versus unhealthy relationships, discusses how healthy romantic relationships prevent teen pregnancy, and identifies links between healthy relationship education and teen pregnancy prevention programs. The presentation includes demographics and information about teen dating over time, and the importance of understanding how teens date. It also includes how technology has changed dating, including the rise of cyber abuse. Unstudied populations are also mentioned, including LGBT, racial/ethnic minority groups, and youth in foster care. Knowing how teens interact with their peers and parents and supporting healthy relationships are key to pregnancy prevention and better outcomes, particularly for high-risk teens.
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2014-02-18T19:00:00
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https://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/sites/default/files/healthyrelationshipswebinar.pdf
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2014-02-19

TAG in Action: Georgia gPower

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The Office of Adolescent Health's Adolescent Health, Think, Act, GrowSM (TAG) national initiative has identified programs implementing successful strategies for improving adolescent health in the United States. This successful strategy highlights The Georgia Campaign for Power and Potential, and their app Georgia gPower, which utilizes social media to empower young people to make healthy choices, especially in the area of sexual health. The campaign includes healthy relationships information and gives encouragement to young people to talk to their providers about any teen dating violence issues.

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2018-02-12T10:37:13
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https://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/sites/default/files/ash/oah/tag/assets/georgia-g-po…

Research Roundup: Family-Based Approaches to Preventing Teen Dating Violence

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This research roundup, provided by the Family & Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), highlights three research articles that focus on parent-teen relationships, dating violence, and the effects of exposure to domestic violence. These articles looked at the effectiveness of the Families for Safe Dates materials, including six booklets of information about healthy relationships that were given to families with teens. The researchers interviewed 324 families at four points in the intervention. The studies found that parents were more comfortable talking with their teens about dating violence with the assistance of the brochures, and that the teens themselves experienced less dating violence than teens who had not read the brochures. The researchers also highlighted the importance of strong parent-child relationships in all three articles.
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2015-10-25T20:00:00
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https://ncfy.acf.hhs.gov/news/2015/10/research-roundup-family-based-approaches-…
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2015-10-26

Dating Matters®: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships

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Dating Matters®: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s comprehensive teen dating violence prevention initiative based on evidence about what works in prevention. Dating Matters® focuses on 11– to 14–year–olds living in urban high-risk communities and includes preventive strategies for individuals, peers, families, neighborhoods, and schools.

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2017-01-04T19:00:00
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https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/datingmatters/
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2017-01-05