3049.0 A Lifecourse Approach to Special Health Care Needs: Clinical Care to Policy

Monday, October 29, 2012: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
Life Course theory provides a framework for understanding the interplay between social and biological factors in determining health status and the relevance of clinical and policy interventions to improving health outcomes. This session looks first at clinical and policy interventions affecting the well being of children and youth with special health care needs and their families, then at the financial burden of care on families raising children within those clinical and policy contexts. It concludes with an explicit exploration of the relevance of Life Course Theory to understanding and improving child and family outcomes.
Session Objectives: Describe the unique issues confronting children with EBD(Emotional, Behavioral, and Developmental) needs and their families. Explain the impact of policy on well-being of children and youth with special health care needs - and their families. Discuss the relevance and application of the Life Course Theory to systems of care for children and youth with special health care needs.
Organizer:
Deborah Allen, ScD
Moderator:
Michael D. Kogan, PhD

8:30am
Frequency of medication treatment, behavioral therapy, and dietary supplements among a national sample of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Susanna Visser, MS, Melissa Danielson, MSPH and Reem M. Ghandour, DrPH, MPA
     
8:50am
Addressing Autism throughout the Lifespan: Promising State Strategies
Michaella Morzuch, MPP, Vanessa Oddo, MPH, Margaret Hargreaves, PhD, MPP and Carol Irvin, PhD
     
9:10am
Financial burden among families of children with special health care needs over time: Results from the 2001, 2005-06, and 2009-10 National Surveys of Children with Special Health Care Needs
Reem M. Ghandour, DrPH, MPA, Ashley Schempf, PhD and Michael D. Kogan, PhD
9:30am
Framing systems of care for children with special health care needs for optimal health development over the life course: Implications and priorities for practice, policy and research
Christina Bethell, PhD, MBA, MPH, Paul Newacheck, DrPH, Lynda Honberg, MHSA, Nora Wells, MEd, Cambria Wilhelm, MPH, Richard Antonelli, MD, MS and Bonnie B. Strickland, PhD
     

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Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Mental Health

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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