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This document presents a statistical study of hospital use by children in the United States and Canada designed to determine why the hospital discharge rate of children in the United States is lower than many other Western industrialized nations, although the discharge rate for the general U.S. population is higher. Several reasons for the lower rate are suggested, including the possibilities that American children are in better health, fewer children are hospitalized unnecessarily in the United States, or some children are not receiving needed hospital care. A comparison of Canadian and U.S. statistics is included because of the two countries' similar hospital structure and data. Data are presented in three areas. Hospital use is compared using data on age and sex, diagnosis, surgical procedures, newborn infants, and hospital fatalities. Health status is compared using morbidity, mortality, and cause of death data. Health services are compared using supply and distribution of resources, physician utilization, and health insurance data. It is concluded that: (1) children in the United States had lower discharge rates for upper respiratory infections but higher infant mortality; (2

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Author

Eileen McCarthy, National Center for Health Statistics, Lola Jean Kozak

Publisher

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Center for Health Statistics ; [Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., distributor], 1984

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780840602954

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Medical, Medicine