Research Catalog

Title

Optimizing care for young children with special health care needs : knowledge and strategies for navigating the system / edited by Elisa J. Sobo and Paul S. Kurtin ; with invited contributors.

Publication

Baltimore, Md. : Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co., [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Sobo, Elisa Janine, 1963-
• Kurtin, Paul S., 1951-

Description

xxxii, 291 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Disabled Children
• Children with disabilities > Medical care
• Children with disabilities > Rehabilitation
• Child, Exceptional
• Infant
• Child, Preschool
• Infant, Newborn
• Child Health Services
• Infants with disabilities > Medical care
• Infants with disabilities > Rehabilitation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Children with special health care needs : evolving definitions, evolving estimates / Ruth E. K. Stein -- 2. Policies and programs relevant to children with special health care needs / Karen Kuhlthau, Sheila Bloom, Monica Marthell and Hodon Mohamed -- 3. Matters of finance : how do we pay for the care of children with special health care needs? / John M. Neff -- 4. Incorporating children with disabilities into family life / Gail Landsman and Marcia Van Riper -- 5. Learning to care and advocate for children with special health care needs : a family perspective / Nora Wells -- 6. Creating a medical home for children with special health care needs / Charles J. Homer and W. Carl Cooley -- 7. Primary care practice and children with special health care needs : actual and ideal / Thomas K. McInerny -- 8. Case management of children with special health care needs : the pediatrician perspective / Robert M. Sheets and Paul S. Kurtin -- 9. Disrupting dreams, making discoveries, and deciphering systems of care : the long-range view of the developmental specialist / Laurel K. Leslie and Kristin Gist -- 10. Mastering the health care system for children with special health care needs / Elisa J. Sobo -- 11. Accessing quality care for children with special health care needs : the future of policy and research / Lisa A. Simpson and Denise Dougherty.

ISBN

• 9781557668547 (alk. paper)
• 155766854X (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006034300
• 9781557668547

OCLC

• ocm73502838
• SCSB-5307500

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries