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Child and Adolescent Health and Health Care Quality : Measuring What Matters by Institute of Medicine; Board on Health Care Services; Committee on the Mental Health Workforce for Geriatric Populations; Dan Blazer; Mai Le; Katie Maslow; Jill Eden is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Increasing public investments in health care services for low-income and special needs children and adolescents in the United States have raised questions about whether these efforts improve their health outcomes. Yet it is difficult to assess the general health status and health care quality for younger populations, especially those at risk of poor health outcomes, because the United States has no national information system that can provide timely, comprehensive, and reliable indicators in these areas for children and adolescents. Without such a system in place, it is difficult to know whether and how selected health care initiatives and programs contribute to children's health status. Child and adolescent health and health care quality identifies key advances in the development of pediatric health and health care quality measures, examines the capacity of existing federal data sets to support these measures, and considers related research activities focused on the development of new measures to address current gaps. This book posits the need for a comprehensive strategy to make better use of existing data, to integrate different data sources, and to develop new data sources and

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Author
Institute of Medicine; Board on Health Care Services; Committee on the Mental Health Workforce for Geriatric Populations; Dan Blazer; Mai Le; Katie Maslow; Jill Eden
Publisher
National Academies Press
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9789535166092
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Medical, History, Economics

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