Children & Infants

Taking action to prevent adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in Ohio

Strategies to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Ohio

Promoting positive social norms and intervening to lessen harm

Connections between criminal justice and health:

Impacts on children and families

Data Snapshot:

Adverse Childhood Experiences in Ohio

Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) — potentially traumatic events that occur during childhood...

Social Drivers of Infant Mortality:

Eliminating Racism Action Guide

HPIO produced the Social Drivers of Infant Mortality: Recommendations for Action and Accountability report. This action guide takes a closer look at eliminating racism recommendations in the report.

Strategies to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Ohio:

Building skills and strengthening connections to caring adults

Building skills and strengthening connections to caring adults ensures that every child can thrive. Enhancing a variety of assets and...

Social Drivers of Infant Mortality:

Employment Action Guide

For many years, policymakers and community leaders across Ohio have worked to reduce high rates of infant mortality. Decisionmakers have...

Social Drivers of Infant Mortality:

Transportation Action Guide

For many years, policymakers and community leaders across Ohio have worked to reduce high rates of infant mortality. Decisionmakers have...

2023 Health Value Dashboard™

HPIO’s fifth edition of the Health Value Dashboard is a tool to track Ohio’s progress toward improved health value Download...

Social Drivers of Infant Mortality:

Education Action Guide

For many years, policymakers and community leaders across Ohio have worked to reduce high rates of infant mortality. Decisionmakers have...

Social Drivers of Infant Mortality:

Housing Action Guide

For many years, policymakers and community leaders across Ohio have worked to reduce high rates of infant mortality. Decisionmakers have...

Social Drivers of Infant Mortality:

Recommendations for Action and Accountability in Ohio

For many years, policymakers and community leaders across Ohio have worked to reduce high rates of infant mortality. Decisionmakers have...

Strategies to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Ohio:

Ensuring a strong start for children and strengthening economic supports for families

Ensuring a strong start for children and strengthening economic supports for families both contribute to making sure that every child...

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs):

A strategic approach to prevent ACEs in Ohio

Safe, stable environments and nurturing relationships are essential for children’s healthy growth and development. Children in families that are stressed and that do not have access to necessary...

2021 Health Value Dashboard™

The Health Policy Institute of Ohio Health Value Dashboard is a tool to track Ohio’s progress toward health value

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs):

Economic Impact of ACEs in Ohio

Exposure to adversity in childhood is a pervasive problem in Ohio and across the country with severe, long-term health impacts that persist into adulthood.

Taking action:

Eliminating racial disparities in infant mortality

For many years, Ohio’s infant mortality rate has been higher than most other states.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Health Impact of ACEs in Ohio

There are many organizations working to improve child well-being in Ohio at the state and local levels.

2019 Health Value Dashboard™

The Health Policy Institute of Ohio’s Health Value Dashboard is a tool to track Ohio’s progress towards health value.

Connections between education and health No. 4: School-based drug and violence prevention and mental health promotion

As thousands of Ohioans struggle to recover from opiate addiction, policymakers are increasingly aware of the importance of stopping addiction before it starts.

Education and health fact sheet:

Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports

The Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) framework is an example of an evidence-based strategy with both education and health benefits.

Connections between education and health No. 3: The importance of early learning

This third brief in a four-part series on connections between education and health illustrates the importance of a child’s early years for both health and future educational attainment.

Connections between Education and Health No. 2: Health Services in Schools

This brief focuses on how Ohio schools are providing health services to students and specific evidence-based policies and programs that have demonstrated both health and education benefits.

2014 Health Value Dashboard™

The HPIO Health Value Dashboard™, the first-of-its-kind combined state ranking of health outcomes and healthcare costs, shows that Ohio’s health value rank is 47.