Paul W. Newacheck

TL;DR: Recognizing these difficulties, health policy leaders at the state and federal levels, with broad input from public and private agencies, providers, and families, effected legislative changes in the federal Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 which expanded the mission of CSHCN programs to facilitate the development of community-based systems of services for children with special health care needs and their families.

TL;DR: National estimates of the prevalence and impact of childhood chronic conditions using data from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey are presented, showing highly variable impacts on children's activities and use of health care.

TL;DR: Results of this study indicate that the CSHCN Screener requires minimal time to administer, is acceptable for use as both an interview-based and self-administered survey, and that rates of children positively identified vary according to child demographic, health, and health care-need characteristics.

TL;DR: This conceptual model represents a starting point for thinking about children's oral health and incorporates many of the important breakthroughs by social epidemiologists over the past 25 years by including a broad range of genetic, social, and environmental risk factors.

TL;DR: An epidemiologic profile of children with special health care needs is presented using a new definition of the population developed by the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau using the recently released 1994 National Health Interview Survey on Disability.