Related Work

This section contains articles written by our researchers using data other than those of Children's HealthWatch, as well as research by other authors relevant to Children's HealthWatch's core issues.

Food Insecurity 

Child Food Insecurity in the United States: 2005-2007. Feeding America. 2009.

Heat and Eat: Using Federal Nutrition Programs to Soften Low-Income Households' Food/Fuel Dilema. Food Research and Action Center. March 2009.

Food Security During Infancy: Implications for Attachment and Mental Proficiency in Toddlerhood. Zaslow, et al., Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2008.

Food insecurity Works through Depression, Parenting, and Infant Feeding to Influence Overweight and Health in Toddlers. Bronte-Tinkew, et al., The Journal of Nutrition 2007, 137:2160-2165.

  

Energy

Heat and Eat: Using Federal Nutrition Programs to Soften Low-Income Households' Food/Fuel Dilema. Food Research and Action Center. March 2009.

Unhealthy Consequences: Energy Costs and Child Health, A Child Health Impact Assessment of Energy Costs and the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Child Health Impact Working Group. Boston, MA. November 2006.

Seasonal Variation in Weight-for-Age in a Pediatric Emergency Room. Deborah A. Frank, et al. Public Health Reports, July/August 1996, 111:366-371.

  

Housing

Affordable Housing and Child Health: A Child Health Impact Assessment of the Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program. Child Health Impact Working Group. Boston, MA. June 2005.

 

WIC

Participants' Comments on Changes in the Revised Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children Food Packages: The Maryland Food Preference Study. Maureen M. Black, Kristen M. Hurley, Sarah E. Oberlander, Erin R. Hager, Adrienne E. McGill, Nneka T. White, Anna M. Quigg. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 2009: 109 (1):116-123.

Variation in breastfeeding behaviours, perceptions, and experiences by race/ethnicity among a low-income statewide sample of Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participants in the United States. Kristen M. Hurley, Maureen M. Black, Mia A. Papas, and Anna M. Quigg. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 2008; 4:95-105.
   

Obesity

Poverty and obesity: the role of energy density and energy costs. Drewnowski & Specter, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2004, 79: 6-16.

The Rising Cost of Low-Energy-Density Foods. Monsivais & Drewnowski, Journal of the American Dietetic Association 2007, 107: 2071-2076.

 

Poverty

Economic Deprivation and Early Childhood Development. Greg J. Duncan, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Pamela Kato Klebanov. Child Development. 65(2):296-318.

Family Poverty, Welfare Reform, and Child Development. Greg J. Duncan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. Child Development. 71(1):188-196.

Off with Hollingshead: Socioeconomic Resources, Parenting, and Child Development. Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson. Northwestern University. July 23, 2001.

The Mechanisms Mediatring the Effects of Poverty on Children's Intellectual Development. Guang Guo and Kathleen Mullan Harris. Demography. 2000; 37(4):431-447.

 

Low Birthweight

The long-term costs of preterm birth and low birth weight: results of a systematic review. S Petrou, T Sach, and L Davidson. Child: Care, Health and Development. 2001; 27(2):97-115.