Featured Policy

This AAP policy statement recommends ways to prevent abusive behavior that violates the trusting relationship between doctor and patient.

This updated policy statement describes the national landscape of health care benefits offered to children and their lack of uniformity and includes recommendations on ensuring adequate health care insurance coverage for all children and youth.

This updated policy statement and accompanying technical report reviews the benefits of helmet use and encourages adults to model routine use of helmets.

Revised clinical guidelines on treating infants born at least 35 weeks into pregnancy for hyperbilirubinemia. For most babies, hyperbilirubinemia leads only to jaundice, a yellow appearance to the skin and whites of the eyes. However, very rarely, it can lead to severe complications affecting the brain.

The AAP has co-authored a policy statement to help inform pediatricians on identifying visual symptoms of concussion and their severity.

In this updated policy statement, the AAP recommends exclusive breastfeeding of infants for the first six months of life before introducing nutritious complementary foods, while encouraging social and systemic changes to support mothers who choose to breastfeed.

This updated AAP policy statement on reducing the risk of sleep-related infant deaths reiterates previous safe sleep recommendations and offer some new guidance. The AAP continues to emphasize the importance of placing infants on their backs in an uncluttered crib.

This new policy statement aims to end the use of harmful and stigmatizing language that has been used to portray substance use disorders by advocating for the use of medically accurate, person-first terminology.

This new AAP policy addresses the elimination of race-based medicine as part of a broader commitment to dismantle the structural and systemic inequities that lead to racial health disparities. Race-based medicine has been pervasively interwoven into the fabric of health care delivery in the United States for more than 400 years. Race is a historically derived social construct that has no place as a biologic proxy.