Sentences with phrase «parental health care use»

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«Now, whether companies have used money that funded other benefits such as maternity and parental leave, and the likes, and put it into health care programs instead, we can't be sure.»

• Provide parental support and guidance regarding dealing with child behavioral issues • Locate and direct families to community services as needed • Arrange foster care for children of displaced or disturbed families as and when needed • Conduct initial home visits and monitor family health using COPA system

Learn strategies used for engaging the health care system to recognize the impact of parental mental illness on their system

These programs include the Nurse Family Partnership, 16,17 Healthy Families America, 18,19 Healthy Start, 20,21 Early Head Start, 22,23 the Comprehensive Child Development Program, 24 — 26 and Early Start.27, 28 All of these programs have been evaluated by using randomized control designs but findings from these trials have been mixed, with some programs showing benefits and others failing to show benefits.29, 30 In a recent review, Howard and Brooks - Gunn30 found that home - visiting programs had reported benefits for a number of outcomes, including child abuse, child health care, quality of home environment, parenting, parental depression, and childhood cognitive skills.

The Healthy Steps for Young Children program (HS) was designed to support families of young children using a new type of health care provider, the HS specialist (HSS), in a practice - based intervention.1 The HS consists of risk reduction activities and universal components, including developmental screening, anticipatory guidance, and follow - up services, offered to all families receiving care.2 - 5 Expected benefits of HS include improved parental promotion of child development, 6 parenting practices, child development, and health care utilization.

Perinatal depression may be comorbid with marital discord, divorce, family violence (verbal and / or physical), substance use and abuse, child abuse and neglect, failure to implement the injury - prevention components from anticipatory guidance (eg, car safety seats and electrical plug covers), 10 failure to implement preventive health practices for the child (eg, Back to Sleep), 10, — , 13 and difficulty managing chronic health conditions such as asthma or disabilities in the young child.11, 14 Families with a depressed parent (ie, any parental depression) overutilize health care and emergency facilities.14 Studies of families of a person with major depression that began before 30 years of age demonstrate that the parent, siblings, and children are 3 to 5 times more likely to have major depression themselves.

The feasibility of gathering health and social care use and parental health - related quality of life will be explored using a bespoke Client Service Receipt Inventory (CSRI) 35 and the EuroQol 5 Dimensions 5 Level Survey (EQ - 5D - 5L).36 These measures have been previously used in cost - effectiveness studies of the IY parent programmes.37, 38

The trial will also allow exploratory analyses of the effectiveness of the IY - ASLD programme compared with the control condition as well as the economic costs, including intervention set - up, delivery costs, participant health and social care service use, and parental health - related quality of life.

Using longitudinal, multi-informant data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, the present study tested associations between trajectories of parental and child depressive symptoms from ages 11 to 15 years.

My expertise in the attachment system comes from both my background in early childhood mental health, which is the period of active formative processes in the attachment system (although we use the patterns of the attachment system throughout our lives), and from also applying this attachment - related information directly with children in the foster care system who were the victims of parental abuse and neglect that created a variety of severe distortions with their attachment system.

The second most common cause for entry into foster care system nationwide, parental substance use disorder consistently jeopardizes child health and safety.

Greater parental support was associated with increased rates of nonemergency care and a higher ratio of outpatient to ER services, a pattern typically reflecting better health and effective use of health services (Starfield et al., 2005).

Given that parents play a critical role in children's health and pediatric care, a large body of research dating back at least to the 1970's (e.g., Mechanic, 1980) has focused on parental characteristics and behavior to help explain variations in children's health care use.

Some important and unique features of the present study include the inclusion of early health care usage within a developmental conceptual framework, use of comprehensive government health care records to ensure systematic reporting, and inclusion of both parent and child health care records to control for parental patterns of health care use and common factors, which affect both parent's and child's health.

However, it is possible that little parental consistency and organization are actually required to provide appropriate health care when children's health problems warrant medical attention, such that parental structuring would not neatly translate to rates of service use.

Results Greater parental support was associated with increased rates of nonemergency care and a higher ratio of outpatient to emergency room (ER) services, a pattern reflecting better health and service use.