Profile of
Children with Special Health Care Needs in Ohio Office
Family Health Services. Anthony Goudie, Ph.D, Gerry Fairbrother, Ph.D., Lisa
Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH, FAAP Keith Mandel, M.D.
Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) constitute a
vulnerable subpopulation with elevated needs and complicated utilization of
health care services. Based on analysis of the 2008 Ohio Family Health Survey
(OFHS) an estimated 570,000 children have special health care needs,
representing 20.9% of all children aged 0-17 in Ohio.
This report addresses three aims in attempting to
understand the health care needs and problems CSHCN encounter; the first is
to present a profile of who these children are; secondly, what kinds of
problems and barriers do they encounter when interacting with the health
care system, and finally to determine the magnitude of these problems in
comparison to children without special health care needs.
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