Yonit Lax

ORCID: 0000-0003-4625-6143
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Research Areas
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Infant Nutrition and Health
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Clinical practice guidelines implementation
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Infant Health and Development
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
  • Coronary Artery Anomalies
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
2020-2024

Maimonides Medical Center
2019-2024

University of Baltimore
2024

State University of New York
2020

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
2016-2018

Children's Hospital at Montefiore
2016-2018

Montefiore Medical Center
2017

Early detection and management of poverty-related disorders is a recommended pediatric practice; however, little known about variations practice between primary care physicians subspecialists. The objectives this study were to assess (1) provider perceptions attitudes toward caring for low-income children in an urban academic medical center, (2) subspecialists social financial needs screening referral practices children.Primary providers (pediatric family medicine) providing direct patient...

10.1186/s12913-021-06975-3 article EN cc-by BMC Health Services Research 2021-09-12

* Abbreviation: SDH — : social determinants of health Hospital readmissions are influenced not only by patients’ health status but also access to resources such as income, insurance, and support systems. Optimizing hospital discharge education, planning, care coordination with outpatient providers essential strategies prevent avoidable readmissions.1 Researchers suggest hospitals should consider (SDH) when assessing readmission risk.2 can be defined the conditions in which people born,...

10.1542/peds.2017-1427 article EN PEDIATRICS 2017-10-18

Pediatricians play a critical role as health advocates. Teaching residents to advocate for their patients on an individual, community, and legislative level is priority residency training programs. This study examined the effects of longitudinal curriculum teaching 3-tiered advocacy pediatric residents' attitudes, knowledge, practice.This was prospective pre- postintervention using anonymous survey (N = 78) in urban academic children's hospital. The assessed individual through comfort...

10.1177/2382120519859300 article EN cc-by-nc Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development 2019-01-01

Clinical pathways for asthma management decrease hospital cost and length of stay; however little is known about the educational impact on residents. Pediatric residents at a children's (N = 114) were invited to complete 22-item computerized, anonymous survey 6 months before after pathway implementation. The assessed use (1) knowledge, (2) attitudes experiences with managing asthma, (3) perceived benefits. Mean knowledge score increased from case implementation [1.5 ± 1.0 versus 2.6 1.3, p <...

10.1155/2018/5472876 article EN cc-by BioMed Research International 2018-01-01

In March 2020, at the start of COVID-19 pandemic, New York City instituted a shelter-in-place order, dramatically affecting area's social and economic landscape. Pediatric primary care practices universally screen for determinants health (SDOH) mental (MH) needs, providing an opportunity to assess changes in population's needs during COVID-19. To SDOH MH pediatric families before COVID-19, authors conducted prospective cohort study patients seen hospital's practices. Baseline data were...

10.1089/pop.2021.0277 article EN Population Health Management 2022-04-01

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of social resource referrals after needs screening among caregivers pediatric inpatients by assessing (1) rates connection, (2) caregiver perception helpfulness, (3) barriers to and (4) resolution needs. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey families discharged from our inpatient floor between October 2021 June 2022 who had screened positive for unmet received referral at least 1 community during their hospitalization. surveyed telephone month...

10.1542/hpeds.2024-007895 article EN Hospital Pediatrics 2024-11-12

ABSTRACT: Objective: To examine the association between after-school activity (ASA) participation, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) severity, and school functioning among children with ADHD. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using data from 2016 National Survey of Children's Health on ADHD ASAs 2 domains ADHD: missed days calls home school. Results: Of 4,049 (weighted N = 5,010,662), 71.8% participated in at least 1 ASA. In multivariable regression analyses, ASA...

10.1097/dbp.0000000000000901 article EN Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics 2020-12-22

This cross-sectional study examines the prevalence of and concordance between self-reported food scarcity nutritional insecurity in an urban pediatric practice.

10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.1709 article EN cc-by-nc-nd JAMA Network Open 2023-03-06

Critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) screening utilizes pulse oximetry to detect in the neonatal period. While primary targets for are common cyanotic lesions, may result a diagnosis of rare lesions such as cor triatriatum dexter (CTD). CTD is cardiac malformation caused by persistence right valve sinus venosus, which divides atrium into two chambers. Here, we describe an asymptomatic female newborn with positive CCHD diagnosed variant CTD. To best our knowledge, this first report after...

10.4103/2249-4847.179923 article EN Journal of Clinical Neonatology 2016-01-01
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