Publications by authors named "Carole A Hanks"

Objective: To test, among an urban primarily African American sample, the effects of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses on mothers' fertility, partner relationships, and economic self-sufficiency and on government spending through age 12 years of their firstborn child.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Public system of obstetric and pediatric care in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Objective: To test the effect of prenatal and infancy home visits by nurses on 12-year-old, firstborn children's use of substances, behavioral adjustment, and academic achievement.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Public system of obstetric and pediatric care in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Problem: This study aims to describe and analyze neighborhood effects on children's mental health, focusing on the emergence and effects of Social Capital or informal social control.

Method: Focus groups of Hispanic and African American families raising children in a low-income, minority neighborhood.

Findings: Parents' alienation from and distrust of public sources of formal social control, such as policemen, prevented the emergence of positive informal social control.

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Public policy implementation models reflect who makes decisions, how success is defined, and whether learning is built into decision making. The extant implementation models capture many important features of public policy implementation, including the desire of large public bureaucracies to impose order and rationality on implementation structures that include many public and private organizations. Analysis of the three-decades-long process of implementation of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children suggests that a new public policy implementation model is needed.

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