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 Child Health Services Research
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Resources on Child Health Services Research.
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AHRQ Kids' Inpatient Database
- (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))
- The Kid's Inpatient Database (KID)is produced every 3 years and is a unique and powerful nationwide database of hospital stays for children. It is a sample of pediatric discharges (age 20 or younger at admission) from community, non-rehabilitation hospitals from States participating in HCUP. The KID is the only dataset on hospital use, outcomes, and charges designed to study children's use of hospital services in the United States.
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Children of Immigrants Data Tool
- (Urban Institute (UI))
- Interactive tool designed to generate charts and tables with indicators on children, age 0 to 17, for the United States and for the 50 states and the District of Columbia using data from the American Community Survey.
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ChildStats.gov
- (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics)
- This Website offers easy access to statistics and reports on children and families, including: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education and health. The Forum fosters coordination, collaboration, and integration of Federal efforts to collect and report data on conditions and trends for children and families.
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Directory of Health Organizations
- (National Library of Medicine (NLM) U.S.)
- This link provides access to a database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. Each record may contain information on the publications, holdings, and services provided.
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e-Source: Behavioral and Social Science Research
- (Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, NIH (OBSSR))
- This website provides access to 20 interactive chapters with authoritative answers to methodological questions on behavioral and social science research. With contributions from a team of international experts, this anthology provides the latest information on addressing emerging challenges in public health.
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Established Child Health Care Quality Measures - CAHPS®: Consumer Assessment of Health Plans
- (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))
- CAHPS®, formerly known as the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans, is a research-based survey measurement tool that is widely used for assessing access, communication, and other aspects of the experience of health care. The child questionnaires (Child Commercial and Child Medicaid) are administered to parents or guardians. There are several sets of supplemental questions on selected topics, including children with chronic conditions.
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HSRR (Health Services and Sciences Research Resources)
- (National Library of Medicine, National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology)
- HSRR is a searchable database of information about research datasets, instruments/indices and software. Users may examine and compare characteristics of some of the resources employed in Health Services Research, the Behavioral and Social Sciences and Public Health. The database includes brief descriptions of research resources and links to PubMed. It also includes URLs of providers for additional information or access to the resources. HSRR is not a repository of the actual resources.
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Human Development Report (United Nations)
- (United Nations)
- The Human Development Report (HDR) presents a wealth of statistical information on different aspects of human development. Links to other background materials, data resources and on-going debates and discussions on human development statistics.
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National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
- (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))
- The Nation's principal health statistics agency. Looks at outcomes, access, literature synthesis, public reporting, underserved, quality, data collection methods, etc. Access data, reports, surveys, and tools.
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Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
- (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))
- The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults, including behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence, tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use, unhealthy dietary behaviors, and physical activity.
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Nemours Child Health Services Research Award
- (AcademyHealth, Nemours Foundation US)
- The Nemours Child Health Services Research Award recognizes the scientific work of emerging scholars in the field of child health services research, particularly research on quality improvement of pediatric health services. Recipients must be within seven years of entry into the field of child health services research as of December 31, 2009. Year of entry will be judged by the nominee's first publication in child health services research. The winner will receive $1,000 in recognition of his/her contribution to child health services research, and the award will be presented at the Eleventh Child Health Services Research Meeting on June 26, 2010.
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Opportunities for States to Improve Children's Care Under CHIPRA and Health Reform
- (Commonwealth Fund)
- Interview with Jocelyn Guyer, co-executive director of the Georgetown Center for Children and Families, about the opportunities and challenges for states to improve the quality of children's health care presented by the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) and the health reform law.
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AcademyHealth
- (AcademyHealth)
- AcademyHealth is the professional home for health services researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners and a non-partisan resource for health research and policy. This site provides access to child health services research information, for example, the child health services research interest group.
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Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit (CHEAR)
- (University of Michigan (U-M))
- Research conducted by the CHEAR Unit provides information to improve the delivery of child health care and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of public and private health care programs.
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Child Trends
- Nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at all stages of development and provides research, data, and analysis to the people and institutions whose decisions and actions affect children, including program providers, the policy community, researchers and educators, and the media.
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Maternal and Child Health Bureau
- (Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA))
- The Children's Bureau was established in 1912. In 1935, the U.S. Congress enacted Title V of the Social Security Act, which authorized the Maternal and Child Health Services programs and provided a foundation and structure for assuring the health of American mothers and children.
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Child Health Services Research Meeting Abstracts
- (AcademyHealth, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))
- Links to past meeting abstracts and poster presentations of the annual Child Health Services Research one-day meeting co-sponsored by AcademyHealth and AHRQ.
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Medicaid, CHIPS, and Next Steps: View Video from 11/13/09 Briefing
- (Alliance for Health Reform US, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF))
- The Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation co-sponsored this briefing to examine the factors which influence children's coverage. Questions addressed included: What are the trends in private sector coverage? How well are the enrollment simplification and outreach tools that are included in this year's CHIP reauthorization helping to reach those children who are eligible but unenrolled? How much does a child's coverage depend on where he or she lives?
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Child Health Insurance Research Initiative (CHIRI™)
- (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))
- CHIRI™ studies seek to uncover which health insurance and delivery features work best for low-income children, particularly minority children and those with special health care needs. Seven of the nine projects focus exclusively on or have separate analyses of children with special health care needs, and five explore disparities between minority and non-minority children.
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Child Health Services Program at Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
- (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Science Library US)
- This program sponsors research and evaluation to assure that the health services available to children and women in their childbearing years are accessible, affordable, comprehensive, coordinated, community-based, culturally competent, and family-centered.
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Indiana Child Health Services Research
- (Indiana University School of Medicine US)
- Indiana Children's Health Services Research strives to improve the health and healthcare of children by developing and applying the best scientific evidence and methods in health services research and informatics.
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Child Health Services Research Discussion Board
- (AcademyHealth)
- The Child Health Services Research Interest Group provides a forum for researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and trainees to interact on health issues related to children. The Group provides opportunities to disseminate results, inform policy and clinical decision-making, build researchers' skills, and create networking opportunities for those interested in child health services.
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