Research & Evaluation

Screening and Referral Form developed by the Families' Legal and Medical Partnership in Milwaukee, WI.

Poster from Families' Legal and Medical Partnership in Milwaukee, WI: Establishing a Medical-Legal Partnership in Milwaukee: Determining Need and Receptiveness Among Parents and Healthcare Providers.

Case Status Form developed by the Families' Legal and Medical Partnership in Milwaukee, WI.

Patient satisfaction survey developed by the Families' Legal and Medical Partnership in Milwaukee, WI.

Article concludes that children’s asthma is associated with reduced parental employment among single parents and increased welfare receipt among single- and 2-parent families. These associations with children’s asthma may have implications for policy makers interested in increasing employment and decreasing welfare use.

CITATION:
The Association of Childhood Asthma with Parental Employment and Welfare Receipt. Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association.  Winter 2002.  LA Smith, JL Hatcher & R Wertheimer.

Study concludes children whose families have applied for welfare and children who are uninsured are at high risk medically and may require additional services to improve health outcomes.

CITATION:
Relationships Between Welfare Status, Health Insurance Status, and Health Care Among Children with Asthma.  American Journal of Public Health.  2002; 92 (9): 1446-1452.  PR Wood, LA Smith, D Romero, P Bradshaw, PH Wise & W Chavkin.

Study concluded that welfare recipients and applicants with chronically ill children face substantial barriers to employment, including high child health care use rates and missed work. The welfare reform reauthorization scheduled to occur later in 2002 should address
the implications of chronic child illness for parental employment.

CITATION:
Employment Barriers Among Welfare Recipients and Applicants with Chronically Ill Children.  American Journal of Public Health.   2002; 92 (9): 1453-1457.   LA Smith, D Romero, PR Wood, NS Wampler, W Chavkin & PH Wise.

Study found that terminating or reducing welfare benefits by sanctions, or decreasing benefits because of changes in income or expenses, is associated with greater odds that young children will experience food insecurity and hospitalizations.

CITATION:
Welfare Reform and the Health of Young Children.  Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.  July 2002.  J Cook, et al.

ABSTRACT:

This study examined the knowledge of and application for health-related welfare program provisions among beneficiaries with children who have chronic conditions. Welfare beneficiaries with children who have chronic conditions show limited knowledge and use of program provisions, placing them at risk for penalties or benefit termination.

ABSTRACT:

The United States is a highly mobile society, with family relocation rates double those of Great Britain and Germany. The objective of this study was to describe the impact of frequent family moves on reported rates of delay in growth or development, learning disorders, school failure and frequent behavioral problems in U.S. school-age children.