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Activity Number:
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579
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 6, 2009 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Health Policy Statistics
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| Abstract - #303046 |
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Title:
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Health care access data for children and adolescents from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs and the National Survey of Children's Health
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Author(s):
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Rosa Avila*+
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Companies:
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National Center for Health Statistics
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Address:
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3311 Toledo Road, Rm. 2120, Hyattsville, MD, 20782,
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Keywords:
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Access to care ; Child Health ; Children with Special Health Care Needs ; National Survey of Children's Health ; National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs ; Children
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Abstract:
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Standardized data that examine health care for children and adolescents can be used to inform policymakers, evaluate programs, and monitor disparities over time. Two nationally representative surveys provide these data for children and children with special health care needs aged 0 to 17 years old: the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN), and the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH). Both surveys were sponsored by the Federal Maternal & Child Health Bureau, conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics using the State & Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS) mechanism. Several examples are presented to demonstrate the analytic utility of SLAITS health care access and utilization variables and how they can be used to support trend analysis on health care access and utilization for children at the national and state levels.
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