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Children with Special Health Care Needs: • Approximately 14.6 million children ages 0–17 years in the United States (19.8%) have special health care needs. • Prevalence of CSHCN ranges from 14.4% to 26.4% across the 50 states and the District of Columbia. •
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EFFECTIVE SYSTEMS OF CARE FOR CSHCN. HRSA MCHB, together with its partners, has identified six components for an effective system of care for CSHCN: 1) children are screened early and continuously for special health care needs, 2) families of CSHCN are partners in decision-making, 3) community-based services are organized so families can use them easily, 4) CSHCN receive care in a medical home ...
- 2020/07
Jun 1, 2022 · Designed to produce estimates of the prevalence and impact of special health care needs (SHCN) across the nation and in each state, as well as the proportion of this population that reported receiving services in a well-functioning system of care, the NS-CSHCN was the first population-level surveillance system to employ a noncategorical definition of SHCN aligned with HRSA MCHB’s definition ...
Introduction. Children with special health care needs are defined as “. . . those who have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally” (McPherson, 1998).
Conclusions: 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 by the CSHCN Screener vary according to child demographic, health, and health care-need characteristics. The CSHCN Screener provides a comprehensive yet ...
- Christina D. Bethell, Debra Read, Ruth E.K. Stein, Stephen J. Blumberg, Nora Wells, Paul W. Newachec...
- 2002
Jun 1, 2022 · All children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN), as currently identified, have chronic health conditions. Health, in this context, should be understood not as the absence of disease, but rather the extent to which children are “able or enabled to (1) develop and realize their potential; (2) satisfy their needs; and (3) develop the capacities that allow them to interact ...
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Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) are those who have or are at risk for having a physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition that requires more health or related services of a type or amount than their peers, 1 commonly identified as children having more than average health service need that is expected to last more than 12 months. 2 The definition is ...
