Child Health Services - Economics
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Paying for obesity: a changing landscape.

30 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Coverage for obesity related services is highly variable. Despite this, health plans, purchasers, and states have mounted numerous recent initiatives. OBJECTIVE: To identify the range of approaches being used to address coverage and ... Read more...

Incremental health system reform policy: Ecuador's law for the provision of free maternity and child care.

30 Mar 2009 This study assessed the impact that the Ley de Maternidad Gratuita y Atencion a la Infancia (LMGAI) [Law for the Provision of Free Maternity and Child Care] in Ecuador has had on health services utilization and infant mortality. These outcomes were ... Read more...

The direct hospitalisation costs of paediatric scalds: 2-year results of a prospective case series.

19 Mar 2009 OBJECTIVE: To reveal the characteristic and distribution of length of hospital stay (LOS) and direct hospitalisation costs of paediatric scald. METHODS: A prospective case series observation was performed from January 2005 to December 2006 at the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Child Health Services - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Dirty work. Aug 2009
• Towards a global fund for the health MDGs? 18 Jun 2009
• Calif. may lose SCHIP. Mounting fiscal woes have governor taking action. 30 May 2009
• Paying for obesity: a changing landscape. 30 May 2009
• Community-level care a health safety net. 30 May 2009
• Covering kids: states are working to provide public health insurance to the growing number of eligible children. 30 May 2009
• Asian countries' spending on child and maternal health is inadequate, bank says. 4 May 2009
• SCHIP renewal. 29 Apr 2009
• Mother of the nation honoured. 29 Apr 2009
• Access-to-care, Part two: Real solutions to the problem. 30 Mar 2009
• Medicaid: under the weather: states are facing growing numbers of people in need of medical care, and even billions from the economic recovery package will not solve all their problems. 30 Mar 2009
• Early legislative wins for Obama. 30 Mar 2009
• Incremental health system reform policy: Ecuador's law for the provision of free maternity and child care. 30 Mar 2009
• The direct hospitalisation costs of paediatric scalds: 2-year results of a prospective case series. 19 Mar 2009
• Overcoming challenges for the economic evaluation of investments in children's health. 18 Mar 2009
• The impact of obesity on health service utilization and costs in childhood. 17 Mar 2009
• Maternal and child health in the occupied Palestinian territory. 2 Mar 2009
• [An eight-year study on maternal and child health service utility in Sichuan province] 27 Feb 2009
• Obama health care for all Americans: practical implications. 27 Feb 2009
• A nurse-led minor illness and injury home-visiting service for young children. 27 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Child Health Services'

Definition: Organized services to provide health care for children.

Descriptor UI: D002662

Alternative terms: Child Health Services; Health Services, Child; Child Health Service; Health Service, Child; Service, Child Health; Services, Child Health; Child Services, Health; Child Service, Health; Health Child Service; Health Child Services; Service, Health Child; Services, Health Child; Health Services, Infant; Health Service, Infant; Infant Health Service; Service, Infant Health; Infant Services, Health; Health Infant Service; Health Infant Services; Infant Service, Health; Service, Health Infant; Services, Health Infant; Services, Infant Health; Infant Health Services;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.421.143.130;

Online Note: use CHILD HEALTH SERVICES to search INFANT HEALTH SERVICES 1968-78 & WELL CHILD CONFERENCE 1968-92

History Note: 68; INFANT HEALTH SERVICES was see under CHILD HEALTH SERVICES 1968-78; WELL CHILD CONFERENCE was see under CHILD HEALTH SERVICES 1968-78, was see CHILD HEALTH SERVICES 1979-92

Technical Notes: check also tag CHILD or specific; DF: CHILD HEALTH SERV