CURRENT ISSUE :: 74(2)
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Improving Quality of Care

This issue focuses on current efforts to improve the quality of health care in North Carolina, including the work of the NC Quality Center, Community Care of North Carolina, and The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence. Commentaries also discuss local quality improvement initiatives and provide insight from public health departments, hospital administrators, physicians, and insurers. Original articles examine the state’s Silver Alert program and factors affecting the density of tanning facilities in North Carolina. TABLE OF CONTENTS | FULL ISSUE (pdf) »
UPCOMING ISSUES
  • 74(3) Chronic pain
  • 74(4) Health reform
  • 74(5) Respiratory diseases
  • 74(6) Genetics

The Impact of Maltreatment on the Developing Child

Hagele DM | NOVEMBER 2005

INVITED COMMENTARY Child maltreatment represents an extreme traumatic insult to the developing child. Chronic traumatic exposure during childhood may lead to persistent changes in brain structure and chemistry that contribute to long-term dysfunction.

BrdsNBz: A Text-Messaging Forum for Improving the Sexual Health of Adolescents in North Carolina

Phillips KR | OCTOBER 2010

INVITED SIDEBAR The BrdsNBz Text Message Warm Line (hereafter, “BrdsNBz”) was launched by the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina in February 2009 to address the sexual-health needs of our state’s teenage population. The primary objective of BrdsNBz is to provide a trusted forum for adolescents to ask questions and receive medically accurate information about their sexual health.

Preventing Child Maltreatment in North Carolina

Zolotor AJ | DECEMBER 2010

INVITED COMMENTARY Child-maltreatment prevention has become more robust in North Carolina since the NCIOM Task Force on Child Abuse Prevention convened in 2005. The commitment by state governmental and nongovernmental leadership and funding agencies has been instrumental to this achievement. This commentary highlights several successful approaches used to prevent child maltreatment in the state, although there is much work to be done.

What is Medicaid?

Morris PJ | MARCH 2013