Objective: To determine the effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure on birth
outcomes. Design: A systematic review and meta-analysis was performed in accordance …

Recent data suggest that that the United States is failing to make significant progress toward
the Healthy People 2010 goal of eliminating health disparities. One missing element from …

Data were analyzed from a population‐based, longitudinal sample of 8,650 US children to
(a) identify factors associated with or predictive of oral vocabulary size at 24 months of age …

This chapter focuses on sexuality education through the window of the federally funded
AOUM movement. The sexual subjectivity of young women remains our focus in this …

Recent interest and investment in early childhood education as a means of promoting
children's school readiness has prompted the need for clear definitions of school readiness …

Existing developmental models of effortful control focus more on the roles of child
characteristics and parenting and focus less on the contributions of poverty-related stressors …

Objectives. To compare associations between socioeconomic status and low birth weight
across the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, countries that share …

Since completing the Ph. D. program in Public Policy and Sociology at the University of
Michigan in 2005, I have had countless discussions with many black people about the racial …

In most states, eligibility to enroll in kindergarten begins at age 5. 1 The month of September,
therefore, not only marks the beginning of a new school year in the United States, but for …

Background: Children born very preterm (VP;< 32 weeks' gestation) or with very low birth
weight (VLBW,< 1500 g; hereafter called VP/VLBW) are at risk for behavioural and …