Addressing Maternal Depression
Maternal depression affects not only a woman herself, but also her family, friends, and coworkers. Of particular concern is maternal depression’s link to problems in children’s health, mental health, and development. This Issue Focus highlights ways that health grantmakers can address maternal depression and its consequences, including educating women and health care providers, promoting screening and treatment, integrating mental health services into programs serving pregnant and parenting women, and supporting research.
Connecting Children to Ongoing and Coordinated Health Care
Ongoing and coordinated care for children has been linked to better health outcomes, as well as lower overall costs. This Issue Focus highlights opportunities for grantmakers that include improving access to medical homes, coordinating care for children with chronic diseases, educating providers, colocating services, and reducing emergency department use.
Taking Time for Board Engagement Strategies
This GIH Issue Focus examines various board engagement strategies.
Health Programs Get Funding Boost: New Federal Funds Available for Prevention, Treatment, and Research
This GIH Issue Focus highlights new federal funds available for prevention, treatment, and research, and shares additional policy developments relevant to funders.
Outreach to Uninsured Children: Recent Foundation Initiatives
This GIH Issue Focus outlines what grantmakers are doing to reach uninsured children.
Strengthening and Maintaining the Public Health Infrastructure
This Issue Focus article presents information on the issues facing the nation’s public health infrastructure and how health grantmakers help strengthen the system by partnering with federal, state, and local health departments, as well as with academic institutions and community groups that contribute to the public’s health.
Early Childhood Development: The First Five Years
This GIH Issue Focus dives into child development services provided in the health care setting in the first five years of life.
Medicare + Choice – New Health Plan Options Challenge Medicare Beneficiaries to Act as Informed Consumers: Is the System Ready?
This supplement to the GIH Bulletin outlined new health plan options that challenge medicare beneficiaries to act as informed consumers.
Protecting Safe Havens for the Nation’s Children
In the U.S., children continue to suffer from violence in environments that should be safe havens for them: their schools and their homes. This Issue Focus presents philanthropic strategies for transforming homes and schools into safe environments where children can thrive and reach their full potential.