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Functional Difficulties and Health Conditions Among Children With Special Health Needs

Center:

OR-Oregon Institute on Development & Disability, UCEDD/LEND

Fiscal Year:

2013

Contact Information:

Don Lollar
[email protected]
503-494-8364

Product Description:

OBJECTIVES: To describe the functional difficulties of children with special health needs and to demonstrate the shared and unique contributions in predicting health outcomes and informing therapeutic interventions, policies, and research by using data from the 2005?2006 National Survey of Children With Special Health Care Needs. CONCLUSIONS: The results support the utility of expanding measures of children with special health care needs to include functional difficulties in survey research, as well as clinical and public health practice. Systematic inclusion of functional difficulties will inform policy development, program planning, outcome assessment, and resource allocation for this vulnerable population. A focus on functional difficulties facilitates stronger coordination of services across sectors including physical health, mental health, education, and other social services to improve the health and well-being for these children and youth.

Keyword(s):

Children, Health condition, Functioning, Disability, Special Health Care Needs

Product/Publication Type(s):

Peer-reviewed publications in scholarly journals Published/In Press

Target Audience:

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Students

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To Obtain Copies (URL or Email):

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2012/02/22/peds.2011-0780

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