Handbook of Children with Special Health Care Needs (Hardcover, 2012)

Children with chronic conditions, developmental disorders, and birth defects represent a sizeable minority of American children-as many as one in five. Often their families have financial or other issues limiting their access to appropriate care, thus limiting their adult prospects as well. Compounding the problem, many valuable resources concerning this population are difficult to access although they may be critical to the researchers, practitioners, and policymakers creating standards for quality care and services. In response, the Handbook of Children with Special Health Care Needs assembles research, applied, and policy perspectives reflecting the range of children's problems requiring special services. Widely studied conditions (e.g., communication disorders, substance abuse) and those receiving lesser attention (e.g., tuberculosis) are covered, as are emerging ideas such as the "medical home" concept of continuity of care. Its interdisciplinary outlook makes the Handbook of Children with Special Health Care Needs a vital, forward-looking text for developmental psychologists, pediatricians, early childhood and special education researchers and practitioners, disability researchers, policymakers, and advocates, and providers for children with special health care needs.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2012
First published:	2012
Editors:	David Hollar
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	430
Edition:	2012
ISBN-13:	978-1-4614-2334-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Child welfare Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General
LSN:	1-4614-2334-1
Barcode:	9781461423348

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