Successes and missed opportunities in protecting our children's health: Critical junctures in the history of children's health policy in the United States

Pediatrics

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1129-1133

  Markel, Howard ^a   Golden, Janet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child health; Child welfare; Great Society; Health policy; Medicaid; Medical history; New Deal; Politics; Progressive Era; Sheppard Towner Maternity and Infancy Act; Social Security Act

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD WELFARE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICARE; MOBILIZATION; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL SECURITY; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; CHILD; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; PEDIATRICS;

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD WELFARE; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; POLITICS; SOCIAL SECURITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 18744405689     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-2825D     Document Type: Review

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