Sentences with phrase «higher health care utilization»

Not surprisingly, research shows that household food insecurity is a strong predictor of higher health care utilization and increased health care costs.

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Case Manager, 1996 - 1997 Coordinated medically appropriate, high quality, and cost effective care for «at risk» patients in the Maryland Medical Assistance program, and assessed needs and assisted caseload of 30 enrollees to gain access and appropriately utilization of health care system.

Parents in the care coordination group reported higher utilization of both primary care and specialist physicians, but did not report better practice help and support, better satisfaction with care, or better overall parental health.

On social - emotional measures, foster children in the NSCAW study tended to have more compromised functioning than would be expected from a high - risk sample.43 Moreover, as indicated in the previous section, research suggests that foster children are more likely than nonfoster care children to have insecure or disordered attachments, and the adverse long - term outcomes associated with such attachments.44 Many studies of foster children postulate that a majority have mental health difficulties.45 They have higher rates of depression, poorer social skills, lower adaptive functioning, and more externalizing behavioral problems, such as aggression and impulsivity.46 Additionally, research has documented high levels of mental health service utilization among foster children47 due to both greater mental health needs and greater access to services.

This inconsistent pattern of health care utilization may put these individuals at higher risk for delaying medical care for significant medical symptoms and for raising costs of care.

Child health: Children in the Early Start series had greater contact with family doctors, higher rates of well - child care, and greater utilization of preschool dental services.

ADVERSE SELECTION Occurs when plan enrollees include a higher percentage of high - risk individuals than are in the average population, resulting in the potential for greater health care utilization and, therefore, increased costs.

The utilization and costs of health care services is tremendously higher for children with ASD compared to typically developing children (e.g., Croen et al. 2006; Ganz 2007; Liptak et al. 2006).