The News Review:
- Uninsured Kids In Middle Class Have Same Unmet Needs As Poor
- China’s Health Ministry puts nation on alert as deadly child virus…
- … having impact on kids’ health-care coverage — and that…
Uninsured Kids In Middle Class Have Same Unmet Needs As Poor
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – May 3, 2008
The percentage of uninsured children who forego all health care for a full year is:
55 percent at 0 to 100 percent of the federal poverty level ($0 to $19,157 for a family of four)
51 percent at 101 to 200 percent of the federal poverty level ($19,158 to $38,314)
42 percent at 201 to 300 percent of the federal poverty level ($38,315 to $57,471)
44 percent at 301 to 400 percent of the federal poverty level ($57,472 to $76,628)
30 percent for those over 400 percent of the federal poverty level ($78,629 and above)
Since 1997, the national State Children’s Health Insurance Program has provided health insurance to low-income children who are not eligible for Medicaid and do not have private coverage. Under the federal law, states received grants of federal dollars to help with costs of insurance expansions, and they had several options for how to expand coverage for children using those dollars. A pediatric research team at the University of Rochester Medical Center has been studying Child Health Plus (New York’s state-specific plan beginning in 1991, which in 1997, received federal approval to become the state’s SCHIP plan) since its inception. Earlier research by this team has shown that the program greatly increases children’s access to primary care, preventive care, as well as other needed health care. SCHIP markedly reduces children’s unmet health care needs and reduces pre-existing racial disparities in access, unmet need and continuity of care. Parents of children with asthma and special health care needs were more satisfied and better able to afford care and medications for their child’s condition once enrolled. When the program came up for federal renewal last year, there were several sources of disagreement over whether to expand the program.
China’s Health Ministry puts nation on alert as deadly child virus…
International Herald Tribune – May 3, 2008
Health bureaus around the country must step up monitoring for hand, foot and mouth disease following a “relatively large” outbreak in the central city of Fuyang, the Health Ministry said in notices on its Web site. The ministry warned that cases were more numerous this year than in recent years and would likely peak in June and July. The increased vigilance was prompted by a jump in cases in the Fuyang outbreak of Enterovirus 71, or EV-71, a type of hand, foot and mouth disease. As of early Saturday, 3,736 cases of EV-71 were reported in Fuyang's mainly rural outskirts, a rise of 415 in about 24 hours, health officials said. Today in Asia – Pacific.
… having impact on kids’ health-care coverage — and that…
EurekAlert – EurekAlert (press release) – May 3, 2008
Fairbrother was senior author. The PAS meeting, sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Pediatric Society, the Society for Pediatric Research and the Ambulatory Pediatric Association, is the largest international meeting to focus on research in child health. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, one of the leading pediatric research institutions in the nation, is dedicated to changing the outcome for children throughout the world. Cincinnati Children’s ranks second among all pediatric institutions in the United States in grants from the National Institutes of Health. It has an established tradition of research excellence, with discoveries including the Sabin oral polio vaccine, the surfactant preparation that saves the lives of thousands of premature infants each year, and a rotavirus vaccine that saves the lives of hundreds of thousands of infants around the world each year. Current strategic directions include the translation of basic laboratory research into the development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of disease, and furthering the development of personalized and predictive medicine.
