CHILD AND FAMILY HEALTH

Agency Reports

Physical growth, like other aspects of development, results from the continuous and complex interplay between heredity and environment. Prenatal development will be negatively affected by teratogens, any environmental agent that causes damage during the prenatal period. These include some prescription and nonprescription drugs, illegal drugs, cigarette smoking, alcohol, radiation, environmental pollution, and maternal disease, In infancy, when environmental conditions are adequate, height and rate of physical growth are largely determined by heredity. Good nutrition is important at any time of development, but it is especially critical in infancy because the baby’s brain and body are growing so rapidly. Although heredity remains powerfully important throughout early childhood, environmental factors continue to play crucial roles. Emotional well-being, good nutrition, and relative freedom from disease remain essential for healthy physical growth. Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death during the preschool years

• Alu Like, Inc.
  Contact: Debbie Kato, Researcher/Evaluator, 535-6767. Collects data from agency’s early childhood program participants. These programs include:

  • Native Hawaiian Child Care Assistance Project – Project provides Native Hawaiian families with financial assistance for child care costs. This project gathers health data such as participants’ special needs. Data is collected from information provided on the participant application.

  • Pulama I Na Keiki (PINK) Program offers home visits, workshops, and parent/toddler groups to assist parents in prenatal and infant care. Participants’ information such as prenatal care and infant developmental data are collected and included in the Pulama I Na Keiki (PINK) Annual Evaluation Report.

• Department of Health

  • Family Health Services Division includes the Maternal and Child Health Branch, Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Services Branch, and Children with Special Needs Branch.

  • Hawai‘i Health Survey
    Contact: Florentina Reyes-Salvail, 586-4600
    Data include basic demographic information and chronic health conditions. Special questions are often added: health insurance and access, child care, etc.

  • Office of Health Status Monitoring - (vital statistics)
    Contact: Brian Horiuchi, 586-4600

  • Injury Prevention and Control Program

    • What’s Hurting Our Children?: Childhood Injury Hospitalizations in Hawai‘i, 1989-1990. This report categorizes injuries by age group, cause, and site. It also provides data according to intentional and unintentional injuries.

    • What’s Killing Our Children?: Childhood Injury Mortality in Hawai‘i, 1987-1992. This report provides an overview of childhood injury deaths in Hawai‘i. Data is provided by cause, age, county, and site.

  • Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT)

    • Children’s Health Under Medicaid: A National Review of Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (August 1998), National Health Law Program. This report provides data, as reported by each state, from the fiscal years 1994 – 1996 measuring the state’s efforts to provide preventative services through EPSDT to eligible children.

    • Data available through Department of Health and Department of Human Services regarding physical development and conditions.

  • Healthy Start

    • Program data as reported by service providers to Department of Health

    • Malama a Ho'opili Pono (Caring for Mothers and Children in the Right Way) - 733-9033 - $1.5 million initiative over two years to reduce infant mortality for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders for Hawaii County.

  • Hunger and Food Insecurity in Hawaii, 2001. Data not yet released, but will include information by sub-county geographic areas regarding families at risk of hunger or actually experiencing hunger.

  • Women, Infants and Children branch (WIC)
    Contact: Sue Uyehara, 586-8006
    Rich data set with information on over 30,000 preschool children whose parents (especially moms) receive education and financial support regarding nutrition and health.

• E Ola Mau (the health needs of Native Hawaiian people), 522-0432

• Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA)
  Contact: Rona Rodenhurst, 594-1912 or Noella Kong, 594-1938
  http://www.oha.org

  • Data Book - This bi-annual report contains Native Hawaiian data on health including prenatal care, birth weight, birth defects, and health risks.

  • Papa Ola Lokahi
    Contact: Momi Lovell, Director for Census Information Center at Papa Ola Lokahi, 597-6550, mlovell@papaolalokahi.org
    The mission of Papa Ola Lokahi is to address the health care needs of Native Hawaiian people. This agency provides access to statewide Native Hawaiian data.

• Queen Lili‘uokalani Children’s Center (QLCC) http://www.qlcc.org
  Contact: Timothy Wong, Program Specialist in Planning & Evaluation, 847-1302

  • Environmental Scan for 2002 Planning Cycle by Queen Lili‘uokalani Children’s Center (February 28, 2001). Information in this report is provided by the Department of Health, Department of Human Services, Department of Education, and QLCC beneficiary data. The report is divided into five sections: Demographics, Education, Health, Social Welfare, and Beneficiary Survey. Health data includes information on low birth weight, prenatal care, maternal risk factors, and teen births.

• University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Hawai‘i Birth Defects Program
  Contact: Ruth D. Merz, Administrator

  • Hawai‘i Birth Defects 1986-1999 Statewide Data Surveillance Report Number 8 on Birth Defects in Hawai‘i. This report shares adverse pregnancy outcomes and birth defects data in Hawai‘i from 1986 – 1999. The data includes all infants with moderate to severe birth defects, as well as other adverse neonatal conditions like prenatal maternal substance abuse, neoplasms, and congenital infections.

• University of Hawai‘i at Manoa College of Education

  • Hawaiian Students Compared With Non-Hawaiian Students on the 1997 Hawai‘i Youth Risk Behavior Survey (August 1998). Morris K. Lai and Susan M. Saka, Curriculum Research and Development Group. This survey identifies risky behaviors and health attitudes of students in grades 9-12. Updates from the 1999 survey and the Middle School survey in 1999 are also available.

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