Research
Division faculty conduct research on a wide variety of children’s health and health care issues, including:
- Improving the health and health care of underserved children, including those who are poor, are uninsured, racial/ethnic minorities, immigrants, facing language barriers, and have special health care needs
- Racial/ethnic disparities in children’s health and health care
- Community-based interventions for improving the health and health care of underserved children
- Insuring uninsured children
- Testing innovative interventions for chronic disease management
- Language, culture, and health care
- Latino children’s health
- Preventing pediatric hospitalization
- Factors that delay hospital discharges for children; family-centered rounds
- Prevention of youth violence and bullying
- Preventing teen pregnancy; the HPV vaccine; and use of text messages for adolescent outpatient appointment reminders
- Understanding and preventing child abuse and neglect
- Health policy