Health
The health of a child impacts their own well-being in many areas, and can have social and financial consequences for their families and communities.

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What Michigan's Children is Doing

Michigan’s Children is working with policymakers, advocacy partners and community leaders to advance public policies and programs that seek to improve the health status of children and families.  Health issues we work on include:

  • Medicaid and MIChild programs
  • Infant mortality prevention efforts
  • Lead poisoning prevention efforts
  • Health education
  • School and community-based health services

 

Specifically in 2010, we will work to:

  • Support federal and state health care reforms guaranteeing that all children are insured and have access to health care.
  • Ensure adequate outreach for Medicaid and MIChild programs, and adequate funding for comprehensive coverage of all eligible children and young adults.
  • Expand public funding for evidence-based health programs that promote prenatal care access, reduce rates of teenage pregnancy, and reduce high mortality and morbidity rates for African American and other at-risk infants and children. 
 
Learn More
The Health and Well-Being of Children: A Portrait of States and the Nation 2007 from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (published in July 2009) is now available online. Read Michigan's profile