RESPOND TO THE SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS:
Chapter 1
1) Define/explain “rights” in your own words.
2) Distinguish between positive and negative rights and provide an example of each.
3) What defined the Progressive Era in US health history? How did this affect the health, safety and education of children?
4) Describe how the two theories of justice presented in the text influence the health of children.
5) Describe the three models of social policy presented in the chapter. Briefly, how do these policies impact the well-being of children?
Chapter 2:
1) Briefly describe how industrialization, the Civil War, and immigration trends impacted child safety and well-being. Describe key interventions designed to improve and safeguard the health of children.
2) Summarize the results of FDR’s recommendation to provide assistance to the poor.
3) Provide a 1-2 sentence description of each of the following programs:
a. Title V
b. Title XVIII
c. Title XIX
d. Neighborhood/Community Health Centers
e. Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children
f. Head Start
4. What is the Maternal and Child Health Services block grant and what does it seek to accomplish?
5. How has the implementation of TANF as block grants affected the role of states in ensuring health and welfare services for children?
Week 3: Chapters 3 and 4
RESPOND TO THE SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS:
Chapter 3
1) Describe major trends related to American family composition, family size and income.
2) How do these trends affect the health and well-being of children?
3) Describe the utilization of child care in the US, as well as its cost and mechanisms of payment.
4) Describe which groups are at the greatest risk of being uninsured.
5) How does the social perception of TANF recipients today compare with the original objectives of programs designed to support caregivers of dependent children? How does the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act reflect the evolution of perception of TANF recipients?
Chapter 4
1) Provide a very brief description of each of the five defining principles of life course theory.
2) Describe the latency, cumulative and pathway life course models of health.
3) Summarize these three areas of active MCH scholarship:
a. Preconception Health and Well-Being
b. The Life Course Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences
c. Fetal Origins of Adult Disease
4) How must our timing of strategies aimed at improving perinatal health outcomes change in order to realize the potential of life course theory research? How must our definition of health policy evolve? Explain your answers.
5) Describe barriers to policy/practice changes inspired by life course perspective.
RESPOND TO THE SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS:
Chapter 5
1) Explain the health outcomes that support the importance of access to family planning services.
2) Briefly trace the evolution of the sociopolitical climate surrounding family planning services from the 1870s on.
3) Describe the demographic composition of users of publicly-funded family planning clinics.
4) What services do family planning clinics offer? Why do some analysts propose that family planning clinics should expand their scope of services?
5) Describe three threats to access to family planning services.
Chapter 6
1) Describe the epidemiologic trends of a) infant mortality, b) low birth weight, c) prematurity, d) birth weight-specific mortality, e) perinatal mortality, and f) maternal mortality.
2) Summarize the approach strategies and components of life course care and preconception care.
3) Explain the currently recommended components and schedule of prenatal care. Discuss the proposed changes to these recommendations and the rationale for the proposed changes.
4) Describe the factors driving the increases in a) late preterm deliveries, b) cesarean deliveries, and c) midwife-attended births.
5) What is the rationale for proposing that the postpartum period should receive more focus as a time for interventions to improve MCH outcomes?
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