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A-Z Topic Index

This index includes bibliographies, guides to selected resources, knowledge paths, organization lists, and MCH Links. The index does not include information available in the databases or from the MCH Alert that has not been extracted or organized.

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A

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Abstinence education: Bibliography | Knowledge path
Access to health care: Knowledge path | Special needs
Accessibility: SEE Universal design
Address for the MCH Library
Adolescent development: Knowledge path
Adolescent mental health: Bibliography | Knowledge path
Adolescent mortality: Organizations list
Adolescent nutrition: Knowledge path
Adolescent pregnancy: Bibliographies: Prevention, Prenatal care | Knowledge path | Organizations list
Adolescent Transition: Special needs
Adolescent violence prevention: Knowledge path | Organizations list
Adolescents with special health care needs: Bibliography | Knowledge path
Adoption: Organizations list | Special needs
Advocacy: MCH Links | Special needs
Afterschool programs: Knowledge path
Aggressive behavior: Knowledge path
AIDS/HIV: Bibliography | Organizations list
Alcohol: SEE Substance use
Alcohol use during pregnancy: Knowledge path
Anxiety disorders: Knowledge path
Arts: Special needs
Asian languages: Languages index
Asperger syndrome: Knowledge path
Assisted reproductive technologies: Selected resources
Asthma: Knowledge path | Publication
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Knowledge path
Autism spectrum disorders: Knowledge path

B

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Battering: Knowledge path
Best practices: SEE Community programs and services
Bioterrorism: SEE Terrorism
Bipolar disorders: Knowledge path
Birth: Knowledge path
Breastfeeding: Selected resources | Bright Futures Nutrition | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines
Bright Futures: MCHB-Funded Projects | 3rd Edition Guidelines | Other Publications | Bright Futures for Women's Health and Wellness
Bullying: Bibliography | Knowledge path


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C

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Child abuse: Knowledge path | Organizations list
Child care: Knowledge path | Organizations list
Child development: Bibliography | Knowledge path | Bright Futures Projects | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines
Child development services: Knowledge path: Community services locator, Healthy social and emotional development
Child developmental screening: Bibliography | Knowledge path
Child health day
Child health insurance: Bibliography | Knowledge path
Child health supervision: Bright Futures Projects | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines
Child maltreatment: Knowledge path
Child mental health: Bibliography | Knowledge Path | Bright Futures Mental Health | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines
Child mortality: Organizations list
Child nutrition: Bibliography | Knowledge path | Bright Futures Nutrition | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines
Child safety: Selected resources
Childbirth education: SEE Pregnancy/prenatal care
Children with special health care needs: Bibliographies: Adolescents, Child care, General, Guidelines and standards, Managed care | Knowledge path | Organizations list: Adoption, Foster Care, General, Genetics
Chronic illnesses: SEE Children with special health care needs
Comments/Feedback forms: Bibliographies | Knowledge paths | MCH Alert | MCH Links | Resource lists | Web site
Community-based care: Special needs
Community programs and services: Bibliography: Effective practices | Community services locator | Organizations list: Effective programs
Consumer health and safety: Organizations list | MCH Links
Coping: Selected resources
Cost effectiveness of MCH programs: Bibliography
Culturally competent services and culturally sensitive materials: Selected resources | Special needs

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D

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Data: MCH Links
Databases of NCEMCH: Healthy Start Collection Database | MCHLine® | MCH Links | MCH Projects Database | MCH Organizations Database | Title V Information System Web Site
Dating violence: Knowledge path
Dental health: SEE Oral health
Depression:
Knowledge path
Depression during pregnancy: Knowledge path
Depression, postpartum: SEE Postpartum depression
Design, Universal: SEE Universal design
Developmental disabilities: Knowledge path
Developmental screening: Knowledge path | Bibliography
Diabetes: Knowledge Path
Directions to the MCH Library
Disabilities: SEE Children with special health care needs
Disasters and terrorism: Bibliography | Selected resources
Disparities: SEE Racial and ethnic disparities in health
Domestic violence: Knowledge path
Drug abuse: SEE Substance use


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E

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Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) services: Knowledge path
Early childhood development: Bibliography | Knowledge path | Bright Futures Projects | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines
Early intervention: Special needs
Early literacy: Knowledge path
Eating behaviors: Knowledge path
Eating disorders: Knowledge path | Organizations list
Education: Knowledge path | Special needs
Effective community programs: Organizations list
Effective program practices: Bibliography
Emotional development: Knowledge path
Environment universal design: Special needs
Environmental concerns during pregnancy: Knowledge path
Environmental health: Selected resources
EPSDT: SEE Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) services
Ethnic disparities in health: SEE Racial and ethnic disparities in health
Evidence-based services: SEE Community programs and practices
Exercise: SEE Physical activity


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F

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Family resource centers: Organizations list
Family support: Knowledge path | Special needs
Family violence: Knowledge path | Organizations list
Federal government: MCH Links
Feedback forms: Bibliographies | Knowledge paths | MCH Alert | MCH Links | Resource lists | Web site
Fertility: Knowledge path
Fetal alcohol syndrome: Knowledge path
Final reports: MCHB Final Reports
Financial support: Knowledge path
Financing Services and Health Insurance: Special needs
Finding community services in your area
Firearms: Knowledge path
Fitness: SEE Physical activity
Food marketing: Knowledge path
Food safety: Knowledge path
Folic acid consumption: Knowledge path
Foreign language materials sources: General: Organizations list | Languages index
Foreign language materials sources: Spanish: Bibliography | Knowledge path | Organizations list | Organizations search
Foster Care: Organizations list | Special needs
Funding sources: Organizations list

G

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Gangs: Knowledge path
General information and resources/libraries: MCH Links
Genetics: Knowledge path | Organizations list | Special needs
Genetic testing: Knowledge path
Guns: SEE Firearms


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H

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Health disparities: SEE Racial and ethnic disparities in health
Health insurance for children: Bibliography | Knowledge path
Health services:Knowledge path
Health supervision: Bright Futures Projects | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines
Healthy People 2010: Maternal, Infant, and Child Health
Healthy Start
Healthy Tomorrows: Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program
Home visiting and resource mothers: Bibliography
Hospice: Special needs
Hospitals: Special needs


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I

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Immunizations: Selected resources
Independent living: Special needs
Infant development: Knowledge path
Infant mortality: Bibliography | Knowledge path | Organizations list | Healthy Start | National Sudden Infant Death Resource Center | SEE also Sudden Infant Death
Infertility: Knowledge path
Injury prevention: Selected resources
Intimate partner violence: Knowledge path

J

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Juvenile diabetes: Knowledge path
Juvenile justice:
Knowledge path

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K

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Knowledge paths: Index

L

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Languages, non-English, material sources: General: Organizations list | Languages index
Languages, non-English, material sources: Spanish: Bibliography | Knowledge path | Organizations list | Organizations search
Learning problems and disorders: Knowledge path
Libraries: MCH Library | MCH Links
Locating community services in your area
Location of the MCH Library


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M

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Maternal morbidity and mortality: Organizations list
Maternal mortality: Organizations list
MCH Alert
: Weekly electronic newsletter
MCH History
MCH Library: Information about the library and its resources
MCH Links: Information about other MCH-related resources on the World Wide Web
MCH policy: MCH Links | MCH Alert | MCHLine®
MCH programs: MCH Links | MCHLine® | MCH Projects Database | MCH Organizations Database
MCH Projects Database: Information about projects funded by MCHB
MCH research: MCH Research Program | MCH Links | MCH Projects Database | MCH Alert | MCHLine®
MCH Thesaurus: List of indexing terms
MCHB final reports: MCHB Final Reports
MCHB Training Program: MCHB Training Program Evaluation
MCHLine®: Information about materials in the MCH Library
Media violence: Knowledge path
Mental health services: Knowledge path
Mental retardation: Knowledge path
Medicaid: SEE Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) services
Medical home: Knowledge path
Mental health: Bibliographies: Adolescent, Children, Primary care | Knowledge path | Bright Futures Mental Health | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines
Minority health: Knowledge path | Organizations list
Model programs: SEE Community programs and services
Mood disorders:
Knowledge path

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N

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National Center for Maternal and Child Health: Web site
National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center: Web site
Newborn screening: Bibliography | Knowledge path
Non-English languages material sources: General: Organizations list
Non-English languages material sources: Spanish: Knowledge path | Organizations list
Nutrition: Bibliographies: Childhood, Physical Activity for Women | Knowledge path | Organizations list | Bright Futures Nutrition | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines | Special needs
Nutrition assistance programs: Knowledge path
Nutrition during pregnancy: Bibliography | Knowledge path


O

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Obesity: Knowledge path
Oppositional behavior: Knowledge path
Oral health: Knowledge path | Organizations list | National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center Web site | Bright Futures Oral Health | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines | Special needs
Organizations Database: Information about other MCH-related organizations
Other languages material sources: General: Organizations list
Other languages material sources: Spanish: Knowledge path | Organizations list
Outreach: Bibliography
Overweight: Knowledge path


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P

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Palliative care: Special needs
Parent education: Knowledge path
Parenting: Organizations lists: General, Adolescent parents | MCH Links | Special needs | For adolescent parenting resources SEE Adolescents
Patient travel and lodging: Special needs
Perinatal depression: Knowledge path
Perinatal health: Knowledge path
Pervasive developmental disorders not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS): Knowledge path
Physical activity (children and adolescents): Knowledge path | Bright Futures Physical Activity | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines
Physical activity (women): Bibliography
Physical fitness: SEE Physical activity
Policy: SEE MCH policy
Postpartum depression: Knowledge path
Preconception: Knowledge path
Pregnancy / prenatal care: Bibliographies: AIDS/HIV, Nutrition, Prenatal care, Smoking, Substance use | Knowledge path | Organizations list | Bright Futures Nutrition | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines
Pregnancy prevention: SEE Adolescents
Prematurity: Bibliography
Prenatal care: Knowledge path
Prenatal testing: Knowledge path
Primary care and mental health: Bibliography
Professional associations (MCH-related): MCH Links
Programs: SEE Community programs; MCH programs
Promising practices: SEE Community programs and services
Psychosocial development:
Knowledge path

Q

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R

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Racial and ethnic disparities in health: Bibliography | Knowledge path
Recreation: Special needs
Rehabilitation: Knowledge path
Research: SEE MCH research
Resource mothers: SEE Home visiting


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S

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Safety: SEE Child safety
School food service: Knowledge path
School health: Selected resources
School readiness: Knowledge path
School violence: Knowledge path
School-based nutrition education: Knowledge path
Screening: Bibliographies: Child developmental screening, Neonatal screening | Special needs
Sexuality education: Selected resources
SIDS: SEE Sudden infant death
Smoking and tobacco use: Bibliography | Knowledge path
Smoking during pregnancy: Bibliography | Knowledge path
Social development: Knowledge path
Spanish language materials sources: Bibliography | Knowledge path | Organizations list | Organizations search | Mi Futura Será Brillante
Special education: Knowledge path | Special needs
Special health care needs: Special needs
Sports: Special needs
Spouse abuse: Knowledge path
State information: Knowledge Path | MCH Links | Special needs
Statistics sources: Bibliography | Organizations list
Substance use: Bibliography | Knowledge path | Organizations list
Substance use during pregnancy: Knowledge path
Sudden infant death: National Sudden Infant Death Resource Center | SEE also Infant mortality

Suicide: Knowledge path

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T

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Teen: SEE Adolescent
Thesaurus: MCH Thesaurus
Tobacco use: SEE Smoking
Terrorism: Bibliography | Selected resources
Training: SEE MCHB Training Program
Transition to adulthood: Special needs
Trauma: Selected resources

U

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Universal design: Special needs

V

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Vaccines: SEE Immunizations
Violence: Selected resources
Violence prevention: Knowledge path | Organizations list | SEE also Domestic violence

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W

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Women's health: Bibliographies: Consumer education materials, General, Nutrition and physical activity | Bright Futures for Women's Health and Wellness

X, Y, Z

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Youth: SEE Adolescent

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