There are many factors that are associated with community-level maltreatment risk, including child and family poverty, crime, enrollment in school, health behaviors, and child safety.

Severe maternal morbidity varies dramatically in Texas by both race/ethnicity  and geographic region, according to a new report and searchable maps.

In order to catalyze the expansion of telemedicine in Texas, the Texas Health Improvement Network (THIN) has released 11 recommendations to policymakers in the areas of telemedicine infrastructure, start-up challenges, regulatory issues, and legal issues.

Register now for this year's Texas Collaborative for Healthy Mothers and Babies Summit. The 2019 Summit is being held January 29-30, 2019, at the AT&T Executive Conference Center in Austin, Texas.

Jerome M. Adams, M.D., the 20th Surgeon General of the United States, will give the opening keynote address at the 2018 Healthier Texas Summit, which is being held in Austin Oct. 25-26.

Using all Texas birth records for 2015, researchers calculated zip-code-level measures for smoking during pregnancy, pre-pregnancy obesity, and utilization of prenatal care for zip codes in which there were 100 or more births.

Some zip codes in the state have not experienced an infant death in this four-year time period, whereas others have experienced more than 1 percent of their infants dying before their first birthday.

In 2016, less than a third of Texas adolescents were up-to-date on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations, according to a new report from researchers at The University of Texas System and UT Health Northeast. Only Wyoming, Mississippi, South Carolina and Utah had HPV vaccination coverage levels lower than Texas.

THIN is a multi-institutional, cross-sector network of researchers, experts, and leaders in population health improvement. Its 24-member Advisory Council includes representatives from a broad range of major stakeholders in state health policy, care, and prevention.

This fall we are holding our inaugural Healthier Texas Summit, on November 6-7 in Austin. It represents our initiative’s first major project, and will build on the great work that IT’S TIME TEXAS has done with its annual summit over the past few years.

The University of Texas System Population Health Initiative has one opening: Director of Health Economics and Outcome Research.  Learn about the open position and apply.

On June 1, 2017, The University of Texas at Dallas enacted a comprehensive tobacco-free policy, prohibiting all forms of tobacco use on campus. It was a significant moment not just for the campus and its students, faculty, and staff, but for the entire University of Texas System

3,403 Texans died from suicide in 2015, the most recent year for which there are numbers. This is more than double the number killed by homicide, and was the second leading cause of death for ages 15-24, after unintentional injuries (e.g. car accidents). Suicide was the fourth leading cause of death for ages 15-64.

The June issue includes stories on the future of mental health, the link between liver cancer in Latinos and certain foods, a new vaccine for Zika, and more. To subscribe to Texas Health Journal, click here. 

In advance of its fall Advisory Council meeting, the Texas Health Improvement Network published a brief annual report detailing the background of the network, key hires, the establishment of the Advisory Council, initial priorities, associated projects, and next steps.