Of the ten million children in the United States who lacked health insurance in 1996, an estimated 4.7 million were eligible for Medicaid but not enrolled (Thomas Selden et al., 1998). In response, federal and state governments have recently devoted up to $500 million annually to the development of outreach campaigns to increase take-up among those eligible. However, little is known about the r...

BACKGROUND & AIMS To analyse nutritional risk in hospitalized children and its relationship with clinical outcomes to provide evidence for improved nutritional management. METHODS The investigation involved 1325 consecutively enrolled hospitalized children from Nanjing Children's Hospital. The nutritional risks in the hospitalized children were evaluated using the STRONGkids tool. During hosp...

The objective of this study was to understand the vulnerability experienced by the family of children hospitalized in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). The Symbolic Interactionism and the Concept of Family Vulnerability were the frameworks used to understand this experience. Qualitative Content Analysis was used. Data was collected through interviews and observation with 11 families of ch...

We used Truven Health Marketscan claims database (2008-2011) to compare gastroenteritis rates during January-June among households whose child had received rotavirus vaccine with those whose child did not receive vaccine. Statistically significantly lower rates of hospitalization with a rotavirus gastroenteritis or unspecified-gastroenteritis discharge code occurred in vaccinated households amo...

The goals of premedication in children’s dentistry are to allay excessive apprehension and to prevent resistance to treatment efforts. With judicious use, premedicating agents are a valuable and necessary adjunct for the pedodontis~. When integrated with proper psychological approaches, premedication may enable the anxious child to accept his first dental experiences without undue emotional tur...

OBJECTIVE To identify concerns of family members of Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) as far as care related to using technology, and to discuss nurses' performance in the face of these concerns. METHODOLOGY Qualitative descriptive research, developed through February and March 2014, through semi-structured interviews with six family members, caregivers of technology-dependent C...

current behavioral researches demonstrate that physical environments, i.e., patient rooms and hospitalization space have strong psychological effects on children conditions and cause them some behavioral changes. since children are usually unfamiliar with medical environments, being in such places can cause some sort of stress and anxiety in them. therefore, designing less-stressed environments...

INTRODUCTION This paper studies the relationship between the risk of child social exclusion, as measured by the Child Social Exclusion (CSE) index and its individual domains, and child health outcomes at the small area level in Australia. The CSE index is Australia's only national small-area index of the risk of child social exclusion. It includes five domains that capture different components ...

This paper reports on a population-based sample survey of 2,289 children aged less than five years (underfive children) conducted in 2000 as a baseline for the Bangladesh component of the Multi-country Evaluation (MCE) of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy. Of interest were rates and differentials by sex and socioeconomic status for three aspects of child health in rural Ba...

Children and adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have needs that challenge our systems of care. A new study estimates ASDs cost more than $126 billion each year in the U.S.--an amount that reflects both the costs of providing educational and medical services as well as the costs of not intervening early and effectively enough to prevent lifelong disability. This Issue Brief summarizes ...