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    Health Care Access for Special Needs Children By: Taylor Franke Course: HCA 310 Health Care Law and Compliance Instructor: Jan Duistermars Date: 2/18/16 Health Care Access The ability to have access to health care is especially important today. With the growing and increasing health care field, services, and treatments, comes the growing and added costs of having to pay for those services. The costs of those services can be very expensive and add up quickly. That’s why there’s significant

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    Define: Family engagement and retention by families with children with mental health, social, and behavioral issues does improve the outcome for the child according to Herman, Borden, Hsu, Schultz, Ma, Brooks and Reinke, 2011. Authors Ellis, Lindsey, Barker, Boxmeyer and Lochman, 2013 defined intervention engagement as, “client attendance, involvement, buy-in, full participation, active participation, and commitment to intervention efforts are all terms that have been used interchangeably to describe

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    poverty on children’s mental health by studying the relationship between children’s’ family histories of poverty and children’s mental health. The research is conducted by using the data from the Children of National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth data set (1986, 1988, 1990). McLeod and Shanahan are interested in finding out the relationship between poverty histories and children’s mental health trajectories. They concluded that poverty has effects on children’s mental health and it continues to affect

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    when it comes to health interventions. Currently there are many services to assist parents with young children involving early intervention and community based services both nationally and in the MidCentral region. The availability and accessibility of those services have meant that there has been an overall improvement in the health of young children. In comparison the improvement of health in adolescents has been much less. (1) In particular concern for this group are mental health disorders, drug

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    Background Oral health is a key component to overall health and well-being for children. Although it is preventable, tooth decay is the most common chronic childhood disease in the U.S., five times more common than asthma. If left untreated, decay can lead to serious health issues that include malnourishment, bacterial infections, and even surgery or hospitalization. Fortunately, using fluoride and dental sealants when combined with good oral hygiene, nutrition, and regular dental care can keep

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    CU1521- Support children and young people’s health and safety. 1.1 Describe the factors to take into account when planning healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments and services. The factors that you would need to take into account include * Individual needs depending on their age or abilities, for example a child of two years may not be able to do the physical things of a child who id five years old. So you would have to set out different activities for different ages. *

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    Topic: Mental Health-Autism Disorder among children living in Poverty Makeah Alasmakh Saint Joseph’s University Neuropsychiatric disorders currently account for the growing global disease burden in health care. These diseases are caused by genetic, environmental and immunological factors play a critical role in the pathogenesis. However, social, economic status also contributes to their prevalence. In this literature review, the correlation between mental health (specifically regarding

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    Pro-This House believes that important decisions about children’s health should be made by medical professionals and not by their parents. We stand in firm affirmation of the following bill: This House believes that important decisions about children’s health should be made by medical professionals and not by their parents. To begin, I would like to define terms within the resolution. These terms include important decisions, children, medical professionals, and parents. We have come to our own conclusion

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    to take his pill this morning, thus third grade English is sure to be a struggle today for all involved. Claimed by many psychologists and psychiatrists alike as ‘the most common mental health problem in children today’, Attention Deficit/ Hyperactive Disorder, or ADHD, has stunted the minds and actions of children for what medically has been documented to be decades, but realistically could define centuries of adolescent behavior. It has even been noted to be the root of early stages for other psychological

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    The article I chose to review is Research Opportunities in the Area of Mental Health Promotion, Prevention, and Intervention for Children and Youth. I first found this article through AJOT and I realized I had been given this issue through a family friend, so I referred to it from then on. This AJOT issue was from September/October of 2014. After reading through the article, I realized that there was an additional article with further information. There was a systematic review that occurred before

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