According to USA Today, children on average are significantly healthier in certain states as opposed to others. Overall, when factoring in 13 measures of children’s health care, children are best off in the state of Iowa and worst off in the state of Oklahoma. In addition, some states have significantly higher percentages of children who [...]
Health organizations around the world have joined to call attention to the problem of rabies and encourage its treatment and elimination through World Rabies Day on September 28, 2008. Though preventable, rabies is nearly always fatal when once an infected person becomes symptomatic and disproportionately affects children.
Despite being 100% preventable, rabies results in an estimated [...]
In her article, Unborn v. Undocumented: A Collision of Policy and Politics, Patricia Gray highlights a likely unintended consequence of the expansion of SCHIP to unborn children: the expansion of SCHIP benefits for prenatal care to undocumented women. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federal health benefits since they are unable to furnish social [...]
