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Neal Halfon
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 219
Citations - 16015
Neal Halfon is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Public health. The author has an hindex of 64, co-authored 207 publications receiving 14737 citations. Previous affiliations of Neal Halfon include University of California, Berkeley & University of California, San Francisco.
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Evolving notions of childhood chronic illness.
Neal Halfon,Paul W. Newacheck +1 more
TL;DR: The prevalence of several categories of chronic illness in childhood is increasing and that these conditions arise, continue, or resolve in a highly dynamic fashion and both findings have important implications and raise a number of significant questions.
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The association between mother's and children's use of physician services.
Paul W. Newacheck,Neal Halfon +1 more
TL;DR: Maternal use appears to be a more powerful predictor of child use than several other family and maternal variables and interventions directed at the mother may be effective in ensuring equitable and efficient use of ambulatory services by children.
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Rates of Parent-Centered Developmental Screening: Disparities and Links to Services Access
TL;DR: There is a significant gap between the developmental screening that is recommended and what is reported nationally and there are considerable opportunities for cross-state learning to improve quality on this critical component of preventive pediatric care.
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Increasing Immunization Rates Among Inner-City, African American Children A Randomized Trial of Case Management
Darien Wood,Neal Halfon,Neal Halfon,Cathy Donald-Sherbourne,Rebecca M. Mazel,Mark A. Schuster,Mark A. Schuster,Julie Shea Hamlin,Margaret Pereyra,Patricia Camp,Mark Grabowsky,Naihua Duan +11 more
TL;DR: A case management intervention in the first year of life was effective in raising immunization levels among infants of inner-city, African American families as discussed by the authors, but not cost-effective.
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Geographic Distribution of Pediatricians in the United States: An Analysis of the Fifty States and Washington, DC
Ruey-Kang R. Chang,Neal Halfon +1 more
TL;DR: The distribution of pediatricians does not parallel the distribution of the child population in the US, nor has this distribution changed substantially in spite of a 38.6% increase in the PCPR, and Pediatricians tend to concentrate in states with high per capita income and inStates with a larger number of residency training positions.