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Child Health Services Research

Resources on Child Health Services Research.

Data, Tools, and Statistics

• Agency for Health Care Research (AHRQ), Quality Child Health Toolbox - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))  - This online resource is intended to help state and local policymakers and program directors and staff answer questions about measuring health care performance in child health programs.

• AHRQ Kids' Inpatient Database - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))  - The Kid's Inpatient Database (KID)is produced every 3 years and is a unique and powerful nationwide database of hospital stays for children. It is a sample of pediatric discharges (age 20 or younger at admission) from community, non-rehabilitation hospitals from States participating in HCUP. The KID is the only dataset on hospital use, outcomes, and charges designed to study children's use of hospital services in the United States.

• The CCDF Policies Database Book of Tables: Key Cross-State Variations in CCDF Policies as of October 1, 2011 - (Urban Institute (UI))  - Child Care and Development Fund provides federal money to States, Territories, and Tribes to subsidize the cost of child care for lower-income families. This Book of Tables presents key aspects of the differences in CCDF-funded programs across United States, as of October 1, 2011.

• Child and Adolescent Health - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))  - Tools, resources, and research findings.

• Children of Immigrants Data Tool - (Urban Institute (UI))  - Interactive tool designed to generate charts and tables with indicators on children, age 0 to 17, for the United States and for the 50 states and the District of Columbia using data from the American Community Survey.

• ChildStats.gov - (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics)  - This Website offers easy access to statistics and reports on children and families, including: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education and health. The Forum fosters coordination, collaboration, and integration of Federal efforts to collect and report data on conditions and trends for children and families.

• Directory of Health Organizations - (National Library of Medicine (NLM) U.S.)  - This link provides access to a database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. Each record may contain information on the publications, holdings, and services provided.

• Established Child Health Care Quality Measures - CAHPS®: Consumer Assessment of Health Plans - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))  - CAHPS®, formerly known as the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans, is a research-based survey measurement tool that is widely used for assessing access, communication, and other aspects of the experience of health care. The child questionnaires (Child Commercial and Child Medicaid) are administered to parents or guardians. There are several sets of supplemental questions on selected topics, including children with chronic conditions.

• HSRR (Health Services and Sciences Research Resources) - (National Library of Medicine, National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology)  - HSRR is a searchable database of information about research datasets, instruments/indices and software. Users may examine and compare characteristics of some of the resources employed in Health Services Research, the Behavioral and Social Sciences and Public Health. The database includes brief descriptions of research resources and links to PubMed. It also includes URLs of providers for additional information or access to the resources. HSRR is not a repository of the actual resources.

• Human Development Report (United Nations) - (United Nations)  - The Human Development Report (HDR) presents a wealth of statistical information on different aspects of human development. Links to other background materials, data resources and on-going debates and discussions on human development statistics.

• KidsData - (Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health USA)  - This website provides access to statistical data about the health and well being of children across California. The site offers data for every city, county, and school district in the state.

• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - The Nation's principal health statistics agency. Looks at outcomes, access, literature synthesis, public reporting, underserved, quality, data collection methods, etc. Access data, reports, surveys, and tools.

• National Center for Health Statistics Health E Stats - (National Center for Health Statistics, CDC (NCHS))  - Health statistics, links to publications, working papers, and electronic medical record use.

• Preterm Birth Report Card - (March of Dimes)  - Statistical data on the levels of prematurity in the United States are presented on an interactive map.

• U.S. Variation in Child Health Systems Performance - (Commonwealth Fund)  - Data disaggregated by state.

• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults, including behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence, tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use, unhealthy dietary behaviors, and physical activity.

Grants, Funding, and Fellowships

• Home and Family Based Approaches for the Prevention or Management of Overweight or Obesity in Early Childhood (R01) - (National Institutes of Health (NIH))  - This FO invites applications from organizations that propose randomized clinical trials testing novel home- or family-based interventions for the prevention or management of overweight in infancy and early childhood.

• Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development Centers - (Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA))  - This grant will fund the Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development Centers Program, which supports workforce development for State Title V program leaders and staff to meet current public health MCH policy and programmatic imperatives in four topic areas around implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

• Nemours Child Health Services Research Award - (AcademyHealth, Nemours Foundation US)  - The Nemours Child Health Services Research Award recognizes the scientific work of emerging scholars in the field of child health services research, particularly research on quality improvement of pediatric health services. Recipients must be within seven years of entry into the field of child health services research as of December 31, 2009. Year of entry will be judged by the nominee's first publication in child health services research. The winner will receive $1,000 in recognition of his/her contribution to child health services research, and the award will be presented at the Eleventh Child Health Services Research Meeting on June 26, 2010.

• NRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship - (Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research)  - Trains primary care physicians for academic careers with an emphasis on research.

Guidelines, Journals, Other Publications

• Child-Only Coverage and the Affordable Care Act: Lessons for Policymakers - (Commonwealth Fund)  - This Issue Brief from examines new state legislative and regulatory action to promote the availability of child-only policies in response to some insurers having ceased to offer coverage to children in need of individual health insurance.

• The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act: Progress After One Year - (Commonwealth Fund)  - This issue of States in Action looks at progress in implementing these provisions and further opportunities for states a year after CHIPRA's enactment.

• North Carolina Institute of Medicine Publications - The NC IOM publishes a variety of health-related material from consumer guides to final reports from task forces, many focusing on child health services research-related issues.

• Opportunities for States to Improve Children's Care Under CHIPRA and Health Reform - (Commonwealth Fund)  - Interview with Jocelyn Guyer, co-executive director of the Georgetown Center for Children and Families, about the opportunities and challenges for states to improve the quality of children's health care presented by the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) and the health reform law.

• Promoting Active Transportation: An Opportunity for Public Health - (American Public Health Association (APHA))  - This primer discusses the ways in which health should be considered in transportation planning and decision-making.

Key Organizations/Programs

• AcademyHealth - (AcademyHealth)  - AcademyHealth is the professional home for health services researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners and a non-partisan resource for health research and policy. This site provides access to child health services research information, for example, the child health services research interest group.

• Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit (CHEAR) - (University of Michigan (U-M))  - Research conducted by the CHEAR Unit provides information to improve the delivery of child health care and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of public and private health care programs.

• Child Trends - (Child Trends)  - Nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at all stages of development and provides research, data, and analysis to the people and institutions whose decisions and actions affect children, including program providers, the policy community, researchers and educators, and the media.

• Families USA: Children's Health - Information and resourches on children's health collected by Families USA.

• Maternal and Child Health Bureau - (Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA))  - The Children's Bureau was established in 1912. In 1935, the U.S. Congress enacted Title V of the Social Security Act, which authorized the Maternal and Child Health Services programs and provided a foundation and structure for assuring the health of American mothers and children.

Meetings/Presentations

• Child Health Services Research Meeting Abstracts - (AcademyHealth, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))  - Links to past meeting abstracts and poster presentations of the annual Child Health Services Research one-day meeting co-sponsored by AcademyHealth and AHRQ.

• Child Health Services Research Speaker Series - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))  - AHRQ has sponsored a series of presentations on child health research issues since September 1999.

• Children's Health Coverage: Medicaid, CHIP, and Next Steps: View Video from 11/13/09 Briefing - (Alliance for Health Reform US, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF))  - The Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation co-sponsored this briefing to examine the factors which influence children's coverage. Questions addressed included: What are the trends in private sector coverage? How well are the enrollment simplification and outreach tools that are included in this year's CHIP reauthorization helping to reach those children who are eligible but unenrolled? How much does a child's coverage depend on where he or she lives?

• The G8 Muskoka and G20 Toronto Summits Health and Development Outcomes - (Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) US)  - The session examined the Canadian-led maternal and child health initiative, the Muskoka Accountability Report tracking G8 member performance in meeting past commitments, and action on food security and related development issues.

• Medical and Public Health Preparedness, Response and Recovery Considerations for Children and Families - (Institute of Medicine (IOM))  - Registration is open for this meeting, being held in Washington, DC on June 10-11, 2013.

• States, Community Groups Efforts to Sign Up Uninsured Children - (Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) US)  - Video highlighting the Walkers/Talkers program in New Orleans which sends workers into the poorest neighborhoods to knock on doors in search of uninsured children and then helps sign them up.

Programs

• Child Health Insurance Research Initiative (CHIRI™) - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))  - CHIRI™ studies seek to uncover which health insurance and delivery features work best for low-income children, particularly minority children and those with special health care needs. Seven of the nine projects focus exclusively on or have separate analyses of children with special health care needs, and five explore disparities between minority and non-minority children.

• Child Health Services Program at Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research - (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Science Library US)  - This program sponsors research and evaluation to assure that the health services available to children and women in their childbearing years are accessible, affordable, comprehensive, coordinated, community-based, culturally competent, and family-centered.

• Indiana Child Health Services Research - (Indiana University School of Medicine US)  - Indiana Children's Health Services Research strives to improve the health and healthcare of children by developing and applying the best scientific evidence and methods in health services research and informatics.

Discussion and E-mail Lists

• Child Health Services Research Discussion Board - (AcademyHealth)  - The Child Health Services Research Interest Group provides a forum for researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and trainees to interact on health issues related to children. The Group provides opportunities to disseminate results, inform policy and clinical decision-making, build researchers' skills, and create networking opportunities for those interested in child health services.

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Listserv - (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH (NICHD))  - This listserv provides announcements about NICHD news releases and media events, outreach, education campaigns, and other items of interest.