Articles tagged with 'community oral health' | Checkup Newsroom

Cook Children’s Health Care System is sinking its teeth into its commitment to oral health, because caring for a child means caring for the whole child. Cook Children’s Community Health Needs Assessment in 2024 found 2 in 7 children (about 328,300) …

Food insecurity affects the pediatric population from their time in utero until adulthood.  Mothers unable to consume adequate calories and a variety of healthy foods can lead to low birth weight infants and birth defects.  Breastfeeding mothers …