Topic: Child/Adolescent Health: Access and Insurance

Clinicians & Providers

• Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Trends in Racial-ethnic, Income, and Insurance Disparities Over Time 2002-2009

Policymaker Resources

• Selected Research on Children's Health Insurance

Other Research & Data

• Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Trends in Racial-ethnic, Income, and Insurance Disparities Over Time 2002-2009

Other News & Events

• A usual source of care may be more important than insurance on children's receipt of preventive health counseling
• Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Trends in Racial-ethnic, Income, and Insurance Disparities Over Time 2002-2009
• Black children are more likely to be hospitalized for a ruptured appendix than white children
• Children whose parents lack a usual source of care are more likely to have unmet medical needs
• Children with health insurance are less likely to receive needed services if their parents are uninsured
• Children's underenrollment in State health insurance programs may be due in part to parents' confusion about coverage
• Children's unmet health needs similar for low- and middle-income families with either public or private insurance
• Expert workshop discusses disparities in health care quality and role of health IT in underresourced settings
• Having a usual source of care promotes preventive health counseling for children
• Health insurance is necessary but not sufficient for children's access to care
• Low- and middle-income children with public and private insurance have similar rates of unmet health care needs
• Medical home for children and youth improves delivery of preventive services without raising expenditures
• Most spending on children's health care in Medicaid and CHIP goes for children with chronic health problems
• Mother-infant interactions associated with use of health services
• Parents and primary care physicians are satisfied with children's use of nonurgent emergency department services
• Public insurance linked to longer perception of disease burden among children with asthma
• Recent trends in hospital use by children and youths are a mixed bag—lower for teen pregnancies, much higher for skin infections
• The stability of a usual source of care is important to the care of low-income children