Welcome to the Child Policy Research Center
The Child Policy Research Center (CPRC), part of the Division of Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness, was created in 1999 and develops, translates and communicates evidence to measurably improve child health and well-being and the quality of health care for children. Our partners include community, local, state and national policy makers, program managers and advocates. The Center addresses the most urgent challenges facing children and families.
The CPRC is made up of multi-disciplinary faculty and staff with expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods. We are home to a growing number of secondary data sets useful in the conduct of policy relevant research, including administrative data as well as local, state and national survey data. Center faculty serve as core faculty in the newly formed Quality Scholars Program led by the Center for Health Care Quality and the federally funded Center for Education and Therapeutics (CERT). The center hosts post-doctoral fellows, residents, graduate and undergraduate students interested in health policy and health services research for experiences from weeks to years.
| What's New at the CPRC |
Healthy Kids Learning Session
On November 4, 2009, the Healthy Kids Ohio Learning Collaborative held its first Learning Session at Cincinnati Children's. Healthy Kids Ohio: The Greater Cincinnati Pilot Learning Collaborative is a primary care practice improvement collaborative created to assist practitioners in responding effectively to the epidemic of childhood obesity in Ohio. Teams from 12 Greater Cincinnati practices attended to learn how to test and implement changes in their office practices, such as improving medical record documentation of BMI percentile, nutrition counseling, and physical activity counseling. Guest speakers Wanda Kennerson and Lila Monahan, MD from StayNHealthy, a successful obesity collaborative in New Hampshire, attended to share their own experiences and lessons learned. Healthy Kids Ohio faculty members Chris Bolling, MD (Pediatric Associates of Kentucky), Bob Siegel, MD (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center), and Lauren Niemes, MEd, RD, LD (Nutrition Council of Greater Cincinnati) also led sessions throughout the day. Each team received an obesity toolkit to use for evaluating and treating their overweight and obese patients and for educating families. Participating teams will collect data monthly to measure their progress and will continue to test and implement new changes. A second Learning Session will be scheduled for early spring 2010. For more information about Healthy Kids Ohio, please contact Stacy Kramer at 513-803-1054 or at Stacy.Kramer@cchmc.org.
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Health Care Issues
Check out our Obesity and Health Insurance reports.
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Demographic Blog
John Besl has been nominated a Community Research Collaborative (CRC) fellow, you can follow his blog.
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 Implementation Choices for CHIPRA
In a new Commonwealth Fund report, child health care experts led by Dr. Lisa Simpson, director of the Child Policy Research Center, discuss the Child Health Insurance Program's (CHIP) potential to transform health care for the children it serves. Informed by a variety of child health care experts and stakeholders, the authors offer recommendations for improving CHIP outreach and enrollment as well as the quality of care enrollees receive. A webinar was held on September 15 and is archived at the Fund site.
Click here for the link to the full report and webinar.
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Ohio Familiy Health Survey
Investigators at CPRC released five reports examining child health and health care in Ohio. The findings use data from the 2008 Ohio Family Health Survey. The reports are new resources for policymakers, program managers and advocates throughout the Ohio and the rest of the U.S. An interactive chartbook was created and provides information on specific subgroups.
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| In the News |
Uninsured Children In Cincinnati
An recent article in the Enquirer, "234,000 locals lack health insurance," discusses patterns of uninsurance among Cincinnati children and families. The article is based on results from the American Community Survey findings.
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Comparative Effectiveness- What Works Best in Health Care
Dr. Lisa Simpson, Director of CPRC, was the only Pediatrician on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee. A new report, from the IOM recommends 100 health topics that should get priority attention and funding from a new national research effort to identify which health care services work best. It also spells out actions and resources needed to ensure that this comparative effectiveness research initiative will be a sustained effort with a continuous process for updating priorities as needed and that the results are put into clinical practice. Dr. Lisa Simpson, Director of CPRC, was the only Pediatrician on the IOM committee.
To read more about this report click here, IOM Report.
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| Child Well Being Survey |
| The Child Well Being Survey (CWB) 2005 provides data on the well-being of children who live in the tri-state area.
Download information from the 2005 Child Well Being Survey in PDF format on our web site by following the link below:
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