Preventing Early Childhood Adversity Before It Starts: Maximizing Medicaid Opportunities
Full Article here by Alexandra Maul, MPH and Stephen A. Somers, PhD The first 1,000 days of a child’s life are a critical window for cognitive, physical, and social development. Exposure to adverse experiences during this period and beyond in early childhood dramatically increases the potential for lifelong poor health and social outcomes. This in turn can result in substantially increased health care costs across an individual’s life span. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) — including...