Medicine and Health Sciences Commons^™

Burden Of Respiratory Failure In Pediatric Patients: Analysis Of A Prospective Multicenter Cohort In Bogotá, Colombia, Laura Hernández-Corredor, Rocio Plazas-Pachón, Fernanda Argote-Bolaños, Pedro Barrera-Lopez, Melisa Naranjo Vanegas, Sergio Moreno-Lopez, Paola Rueda-Guevara, Juan G Piñeros, Olga Lucía Baquero Castañeda, Carolina Bonilla, Luz M Mejía, María L Mesa, Sonia Restrepo-Gualteros, Andrea Ramírez Varela

Journal Articles

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The approach to the burden of disease is a demographic, economic, and a health problem, which requires the design and application of specific measures of cost of the disease, such as disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), to establish better public health policies in the pediatric population. The aim of this study is to approach the burden of disease in children with acute respiratory failure (ARF) through the calculation of DALYs.

METHODS: This study was conducted in the framework of a prospective, multicenter cohort in Bogotá, Colombia. Inclusion criteria were all pediatric patients admitted to the emergency department, hospitalization, …

Effects Of Insurance Coverage On Healthcare Access And Outcomes For Children In Ohio, Haley Hurst, Patrick Ruz

Scholarship in Medicine - All Papers

Objective: Despite health insurance coverage correlating to improved child health outcomes and reduced healthcare costs, it is estimated that 8.7% of children in America lack continuous insurance. Although coverage has expanded multiple times through the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) initiated in 1997, rates for child insurance vary drastically across regions of the country. In this study we investigated child insurance rates over time and by state, as well as explored the effects of having insurance and child health outcomes. To do this, we measured the association of uninsured children to primary care physician access and child mortality in the …