BACKGROUND The recently enacted State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is modeled after New York State's Child Health Plus (CHPlus) program. Since 1991, CHPlus has provided health insurance to children 0 to 13 years old whose annual family income was below 222% of the federal poverty level and who were ineligible for Medicaid or did not have equivalent health insurance coverage. CHPl...

Patient Centred Care (PCC) is a recognized pillar of quality healthcare. According to the Institute of Medicine (Kohn et al. 2000), PCC respects and is responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values, and ensures they guide all clinical decisions. In a pediatric setting, both the child and family's preferences and values are critical; as a result, the concept of PCC is broadened ...

This study combines data at individual and area level to examine interactions between equality within couples and gender equality in the municipality in which individuals live. The research question is whether the context impacts on the association between gender equality and health. The material consists of data on 37,423 men and 37,616 women in 279 Swedish municipalities, who had their first ...

INTRODUCTION Defining somatization in pediatric populations presents a unique challenge, because DSM-IV somatization criteria may be inadequate for identifying a child with somatization. Two approaches exist. Child somatization has frequently been rooted in a questionnaire model, focusing on child or parent responses to assess how well a child conforms to a specific mental health profile. Other...

Ariel Higgins-Steele, Piyali Mustaphi, Sherin Varkey, Humayoun Ludin, Najibullah Safi and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta UNICEF Afghanistan Country Office, UNOCA Jalalabad Road, Kabul, Afghanistan, Ministry of Public Health, Kabul, Afghanistan, Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, and Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto,...

Introduction. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a post-viral, life-threatening, state with multisystem involvement that typically manifests 3?4 weeks after SARS-CoV-2 infection. In this article, we present the first case of MIS-C at Institute for Child and Youth Health Care Vojvodina beginning COVID-19 pandemic. Case outline. A previously healthy 11-year-old girl got sick...

ood health often depends on having a good job and economic security. At the same time, staying healthy is often critical to keeping a job. For women, the tie between health and economic security is intensified by their responsibilities for caring for sick children or family members. In fact, The Commonwealth Fund 1998 Survey of Women’s Health finds that half of all lowincome, nonworking women a...

Infants and toddlers are prone to rapidly contracting illnesses, which are usually attributed to infectious diseases. Most nurseries and schools in Japan, however, refuse to accept children even with mild illnesses. For working parents, a sick child may therefore create new problems as the situation requires new day-care arrangements. To support such families, the Japanese government subsidizes...