title: A historically based thought experiment: meeting new challenges for children's health and well-being.
abstract: In fall 2004 we proposed a way to use the lessons of the past to inform U.S. children's health policy, given the increasingly critical needs of children in this country. Continuing in that tradition and beyond, we describe here the founding and early work of the Children's Bureau and consider how it might be a model for the near future. We propose the creation of a Department of Children's Affairs (DoCA), which would unite the various federal agency-level initiatives aimed at children's health and well-being, much as the Department of Homeland Security did for terrorism defense activities after 9/11.
authors.affiliation: Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, USA>
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Golden
authors.forename: Howard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Markel
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D035082:Federal Government; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006291:Health Policy; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States