Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Recognizing that insufficient sleep in adolescents is an important public health issue that significantly affects the health and safety, as well as academic success, the American Academy of Pediatrics strongly supports efforts of school districts to optimize sleep in students and urges high schools and middle schools to aim for start times no ...
Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors. [1] The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a child as "any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier."
Leaked minutes from 2021 showed that the group has collaborated with religious groups in order to influence opinion leaders in courts, academic literature, and in state legislatures. Since 2021, representatives of ACPeds have lobbied several state legislatures in support of legislation to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youths, as ...
The American Academy of Pediatrics is reviewing its guidance to eliminate race-based medicine. Dr. Joseph Wright, a member of the academy's board of directors and chief health equity officer for ...
State laws regarding the practice of closed adoption may also require an overhaul in light of the Convention's position that children have a right to identity from birth. During his 2008 campaign for president, Senator Barack Obama described the failure to ratify the convention as "embarrassing" and promised to review the issue [ 81 ] [ 82 ...
Other analyses of the economic costs and potential benefits to individuals and society have since been evaluated. [ 80 ] [ 81 ] In 2014, the American Academy of Pediatrics published a decision analysis that evaluated direct costs, such as program costs, vaccine cost, administrative burden, negative vaccine-linked reactions, and transportation ...
Social policy in the 21st century is complex and in each state it is subject to local and national governments, as well as supranational political influence. For example, membership of the European Union is conditional on member states' adherence to the Social Chapter of European Union law and other international laws. [clarify]
When the local economy is strong, it contributes to the larger, broader economy in a positive way. Gabe Krajicek, CEO of Kasasa , said small business success means more local money and tax dollars ...