pediatrician & health services researcher @ChildrensPhila @PolicyLabCHOP | improving health & social service systems to promote health equity | tweets my own
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Evidence-based policies can help kids get a healthier start.
New PolicyLab research in @Health_Affairs shows that $300/month during pregnancy can help families improve their child’s health.
Learn how this simple support can make a difference. healthaffairs.org/doi/full/1…
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As featured in this month’s issue, Aditi Vasan and coauthors of @ChildrensPhila and @Penn examine the association between parents’ receipt of monthly expanded Child Tax Credit payments during pregnancy and infant birth outcomes in Pennsylvania. healthaffairs.org/doi/full/1…
Such a pleasure working on this with rockstar former @choppedsres & current @CincyPHMFellows @prestonsimm ! Always so impressed w your work advocating for these patients & families and can’t wait to see what you’ll do next!
Some of my final work from residency hits close to home. Check out our perspective in @aap_hpeds around support for rural children with special health care needs and their families. Special thanks to @AditiVasan @courtsump
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NEW IN @aap_peds
We interviewed 40 caregivers about what they liked about WIC and SNAP, what they’d change, and how health systems could help families connect to both programs.
Find the full video abstract and paper ⤵️
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A new study from LDI Fellows @AditiVasan and @Eugenia_South digs into the connections between exposure to neighborhood violence and unmet health care. Cost-related barriers to care were prominent, but pandemic-era policies may have helped. Read more: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resea…
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Policy pros from CHOP and Penn say with the end of BDT, health systems and local groups must ramp up efforts to get families the government benefits they need.
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In @pennlive, LDI's @AaronRichterman, @AditiVasan, & Julia Hinckley argue that a new state earned income tax credit is needed in Pennsylvania, as the bottom 20% of taxpayers pay more than twice the share of their income in state and local taxes. See more: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resea…
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In this 𝘐𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦 article, lead author @AditiVasan and a research team designed a standardized process for helping low-income families navigate applications for federal nutrition support programs.
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In this study by @rohankhaz @AditiVasan @KevenCabreraMD @Eugenia_South, children in neighborhoods with increased violence were found to have unmet health needs - reaffirming violence as a social determinant of health #violenceprevention #gunsafety
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1/ 🚨📰💡 NEW in @AmJPrevMed w/@Eugenia_South, @KevenCabreraMD, @tylerwinkelman, @AditiVasan
We highlight how children exposed to #neighborhoodviolence have worse mental health, ⬆️ acute care utilization, and ⬆️ unmet physical & mental health care needs.
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The health care workforce has sizable wage inequality, and lower wage workers are more likely to be in poor health.
In work led by @SasmiraM, we ask what happens to wages after health care orgs get a financial windfall? Do the lowest earners benefit?
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The bottom line?
To ensure that eligible children and parents have access, Congress should fully #FundWIC.
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And our Dr. Aditi Vasan and team recently detailed how continued innovation and investment in improving WIC can promote health equity.
policylab.chop.edu/article/r…
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For the first time in a decade, participation in WIC is growing in part because of innovations that improve participants’ experiences with the program.
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🍎 Research tells us that #WIC is an effective and important nutrition program for low-income pregnant and postpartum people and children up to age 5.
This 2021 blog post breaks it down.
policylab.chop.edu/blog/mode…
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As the #WIC funding deadline approaches, a thread 🧵on WIC’s impact...
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academicpedsjnl.net/article/… Caregivers preferred food delivery to other forms of food programs in the primary care setting to address food insecurity. Great work @AditiVasan! – at Cincinnati, OH