Definition of Special Health Care Needs.

A new definition of children with special health care needs.

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The definition of disaster is diverse but certainly the similarity between disaster and normal condition is negligible. The most important characteristic of critical condition is the number of human victims. Therefore each critical condition needs medical intervention and the presence of health care providers is necessary.Health care services are divided into two categories one in normal situat...

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS Committee on Children With Disabilities Care Coordination: Integrating Health and Related Systems of Care for Children With Special Health Care Needs

Care coordination is a process that links children with special health care needs and their families to services and resources in a coordinated effort to maximize the potential of the children and provide them with optimal health care. Care coordination often is complicated because there is no single entry point to multiple systems of care, and complex criteria determine the availability of fun...

A family-centered, community-based system of services for children and youth with special health care needs.

OBJECTIVE To present a conceptual definition of a family-centered system of services for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). Previous work by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau to define CYSHCN has had widespread program effects. This article similarly seeks to provide a definition of a system of services. DESIGN Comprehensive literature review of systems of services...

Using existing population-based data sets to measure the American Academy of Pediatrics definition of medical home for all children and children with special health care needs.

OBJECTIVE National health goals include ensuring that all children have a medical home. Historically, medical home has been determined by the presence of a usual or primary source of care, such as a pediatrician or a family physician. More recent definitions expand on this simplistic notion of medical home. A definition of medical home set forth by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) inclu...