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Assessing health and safety in early care and education programs: Development of the CCHP Health and Safety Checklist
Alkon, Abbey, November/December 2008
Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 22(6), 368-377

An account of the development and testing of the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP) Health and Safety Checklist, an observational instrument used to assess compliance with national health and safety standards in child care and early education environments

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Assessing Indiana's health and safety in early care and education programs: Identifying areas for improvement
Alkon, Abbey, April, 2012
Maternal and Child Health Journal, 16(3), 555-563

An identification of national health and safety standards in the Indiana Health and Safety Checklist that are met and not met in a sample of early care and education (ECE) programs, and study of the reliability of the checklist, based on data from trained child care health consultants in 82 ECE programs

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Child care health consultants' roles and responsibilities: Focus group findings
Alkon, Abbey, 2004
Pediatric Nursing, 30(4), 315-321

An examination of child care health consultants' perceptions of their common roles and responsibilities

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Child care health consultation improves health and safety policies and practices
Alkon, Abbey, September-October 2009
Academic Pediatrics, 9(5), 366-370

A study of the effects of county-level child care health consultation intervention programs on child care centers’ health and safety policies and practices from a 3-year experimental study in 5 California counties with 73 intervention and 38 comparison licensed child care centers

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Child care health consultation improves health knowledge and compliance
Alkon, Abbey, 2002
Pediatric Nursing, 28(1), 61-65

An evaluation of the effect of health consultative services on child care staff’s knowledge of child health-related issues, and child care centers’ compliance with national health and safety performance standards

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Child care health consultation programs: Barriers and recommendations
Farrer, Joanna, March 2007
Maternal and Child Health Journal, 11(2), 111-118

A focus-group-based examination of barriers encountered by child care health professionals when trying to implement child care health consultation programs in child care centers

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Child care health consultation programs in California: Models, services, and facilitators
Alkon, Abbey, March/April 2008
Public Health Nursing, 25(2), 126-139

An evaluative study of the Child Care Health Linkages Project, an initiative to address health and safety issues for children attending Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs by linking health consultants with ECE providers and parents in 20 California counties

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Creating a state strategic plan for integrating services for children using multiple qualitative methods
Wayne, Wendy, January 2008
Maternal and Child Health Journal, 12(1), 15-23

A study of the development of California’s plan for integrating public services for young children

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The epidemiology of injuries in 4 child care centers
Alkon, Abbey, 1999
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 153(12), 1248-1254

A 2-year cohort study of 362 preschool-aged children comparing rates of injuries based on sex, age, and child care center, and examining the environmental and child factors related to injury severity

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Evaluation of mental health consultation in child care centers
Alkon, Abbey, 2003
Early Childhood Education Journal, 31(2), 91-99

An analysis of the influences of four mental health consultation models on 25 San Francisco child care centers to enhance children’s emotional lives and social abilities, and to strengthen child care center staff’s capacity to work with children who have difficult behaviors

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Executive summary: Health and school readiness literature review: Selected programs, components and findings in the United States, excluding California
Emel, Bobbi L., June 2006
Oakland: California Childcare Health Program.

A summary of a review of the health components, initiatives, and outcomes of key school readiness programs in the United States, not including California

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Goal Achievement Scale
Alkon, Abbey, Winter 2003
Early Childhood Education Journal, 31(2), 91-99

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Health and safety needs in early care and education programs: What do directors, child health records, and national standards tell us?
Alkon, Abbey, Jan/Feb 2010
Public Health Nursing, 27(1), 3-16

An examination of common and unique health and safety needs and concerns identified by director interviews, child record reviews, and observations of National Health and Safety (NHS) standards in licensed child care centers and family child care homes in 5 counties in California that are part of the Child Care Health Linkages Project

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Health and school readiness literature review: Selected programs, components and findings in the United States, excluding California
Emel, Bobbi L., June 2006
Oakland: California Childcare Health Program.

A review summarizing the health components, initiatives, and outcomes of key school readiness programs in the United States, not including California

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Health assessment in child care centers: Parent and staff perceptions
Alkon, Abbey, 1999
Pediatric Nursing, 25(4), 439-442

A study examining the health care needs of children in child care settings, using a Health Care Services Assessment completed by 55 parents and 13 staff members in four urban child care centers

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Injuries in child care centers: Gender-environment interactions
Alkon, Abbey, 2000
Injury Prevention, 6(3), 214-218

A longitudinal investigation into the role of children’s age, gender, and child care environment in predicting injuries, based on a sample of 360 preschool children aged 2- to 6-years old in four urban child care centers

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Injuries in child care centers: Rates, severity and etiology
Alkon, Abbey, 1994
Pediatrics, 94(6), 1043-1046

A study on the distribution, severity and causal factors of minor and major injuries in preschool children

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Mental health consultation in early childhood classrooms
Bernzweig, Jane, September 2009
Zero to Three, 30(1), 47-51

An exploration of the dynamics between mental health consultants and early childhood program directors in the context of mental health consultations in early childhood classrooms and program settings, based on interviews with a small number of program directors

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Psychobiologic reactivity to stress and childhood respiratory illnesses: Results of two prospective studies
Boyce, W. Thomas, 1995
Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine, 57(5), 411-422

Two studies on the relationships among environmental stressors, psychobiologic reactivity to stress, and respiratory illnesses in preschool children

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