The Center for Mississippi Health Policy has released a report summarizing key findings from the first year of research, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Bower Foundation, evaluating the impact of the Mississippi Healthy Students Act. The report, Assessing the Impact of the Mississippi Healthy Students Act, presents the results of studies conducted by three Mississippi universities that provide valuable information for educators and policy-makers as they look toward the next three years of the Act’s … Read more...
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Building Mississippi’s System of Care: An Interagency Solution for Mississippi’s Children
The state statute that establishes and governs the Interagency System of Care for children and youth with serious emotional/behavioral disorders (§43-14-1) sunsets July 1, 2010. This law must be re-enacted by the Legislature in 2010 in order for the system to continue.
The System of Care model is an interagency, multi-disciplinary approach to care for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances and their families. It is intended to reduce the number of inappropriate out-of-home placements and inappropriate school suspensions … Read more...
Mississippi Initiatives to Address Childhood Obesity
Issue
Children in Mississippi suffer from an alarming rate of overweight that continues to rise. Overweight children miss significantly more school days and perform less well academically than normal weight children. Risk factors for heart disease (such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure) and type 2 diabetes occur more frequently in overweight children and adolescents. In the past ten years there has been a dramatic increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in adolescents. In addition to the … Read more...
Mississippians Support Actions to Address Childhood Obesity
Results of the USM Public Perception of Childhood Obesity Survey
About 95 percent of adult Mississippians think that childhood obesity is a serious problem in Mississippi, according to a recent survey conducted by researchers at the College of Health at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM). In addition, Mississippi adults show stronger support for public policies to address the problem than adults nationwide. For example, Mississippians were more favorable to the following:
- To the government playing a significant role in