Americas Babies The Zero To Three Policy Center Data Book 1st Ed Oser by Oser, Cindy, Cohen, Julie, Zero To Three (organization). Policy Center instant download after payment.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-93), Chapter 1. Demographics of babies and toddlers -- Overall trends -- Births -- Deaths -- Immigration -- Where babies and toddlers live: distribution of the birth-to-3 population -- Chapter 2. Babies, coming into the world -- Where and how babies are born -- Early hospital discharge: whatever happened to \"drive-through deliveries?\" -- Assistive reproductive technology -- Multiple births -- Birth weight -- Factors affecting birth size and birth outcome: smoking and drug use during pregnancy -- Birth defects -- Chapter 3. Infants and toddlers, healthy and safe -- Newborn metabolic screening -- Newborn hearing screening -- Health and nutrition -- Breast-feeding -- The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) -- Supplemental Nutrition Program -- Physical activity for babies -- Public preventive health: the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) Program -- Immunizations -- Social and emotional health -- Safety and prevention -- Environmental issues -- Child fatalities -- Back to sleep and tummy to play: impact of the Back to Sleep campaign on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) deaths -- Chapter 4. Violence, trauma, and protective systems -- Exposure to violence -- Trauma -- Child welfare, Chapter 5. Family and economic factors -- Family characteristics -- \"Fatherneed\" -- Families in the military -- Family expenses and economic stability -- Families without homes -- Working families -- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) -- Health insurance -- Chapter 6. Early learning and care -- Early literacy -- Child care -- Federal support for child care: the child care and development fund -- Highlights from the national evaluation of early Head Start -- Early Head Start -- Early Head Start and child care -- Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): early intervention for infants and toddlers with disabilities -- Early Hear Start services for infants and toddlers with delays or