Special health care needs include any physical, developmental, mental, sensory, behavioral, cognitive, or emotional impairment or limiting condition that requires medical management, health care intervention, and/or use of specialized services or programs. The condition may be congenital, developmental, or acquired through disease, trauma, or environmental cause and may impose limitations in pe...

Some of the ways child care programs are required to ensure equal access include: eliminating or modifying eligibility criteria which discriminate simply on the basis of disability; removing physical barriers; making reasonable modifications in policies, practices or procedures; and providing auxiliary aids and services to ensure effective communication. Higher insurance premiums for the child ...

Corresponding Author: Colonel TJ Hodgetts QHP Honorary Professor of Emergency Medicine Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine Institute of Research and Development, Vincent Drive, Birmingham B15 2SQ T: +44 121 415 8848 E: [email protected] ABC, DCR, DCS, RSI, MERT, MERT-Enhanced, 1:1, IRT, JTTR these contemporary abbreviations are increasingly used in conversations regar...

Health-care research, in all its forms, is an important and tool for health-care organizations to improve their contribution to society and better account for the impact of the services necessary undertaking. As medical science advances and technological breakthroughs are made, quality delivered to the community at large. Health-care organizations must not only look outward and of diagnostic me...

Few criteria exist for identifying which babies merit special nursing care, and many asymptomatic babies are offered such care unnecessarily. Birth weight is usually used to identify babies in need of special care at birth, but gestational age is a better discriminator. Babies of more than 35 weeks' gestation do not normally require admission to a special care nursery. Those preterm babies who ...

This study examined the probability of (a) being placed in a disciplinary alternative education setting for mandatory versus discretionary reasons and (b) returning within the same year among an ethnically diverse sample (African American, Caucasian, Hispanic) of middle and high school students (N=270). Participants were compared based on ethnicity, gender, grade level, and special education st...

The implementation of managed care for children with special health care needs is often associated with apprehension regarding new barriers to health care services. At times, these barriers may overshadow opportunities for improvement. This statement discusses such opportunities, identifies challenges, and proposes active roles for pediatricians and families to improve managed care for children...

The US Maternal and Child Health Bureau's Division of Services to Children With Special Health Care Needs has developed a national agenda for the development of systems of care of children with special health care needs. The purpose of this presentation was to discuss family activism in the care of children with special health care needs, and to explore the obstacles and successes encountered b...

Background: In the process of cancer treatment, mothers of children with cancer experience burden of care as a result of these conditions. Early detection of burden of care has an important role in promoting health care. The aim of this study was to evaluate burden of care in mothers of children with a malignancy. Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study was done on 70 mothers of chil...