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Health Insurance and Access to Care for Children and Adolescents
Knowledge Path

Introduction

This knowledge path about child and adolescent health insurance and access to care has been compiled by the MCH Library at Georgetown University. It offers a selection of current, high-quality resources for professionals (health professionals, program administrators, policymakers, and researchers) that analyze data, describe effective programs, and report on policy and research aimed at advancing health coverage and improving health care access for children and adolescents. Emphasis is placed on Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Separate sections present resources about health reform and outreach and enrollment. Separate briefs point to resources for families and schools. This knowledge path will be updated periodically.

Please note: The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) of 2009 extends and expands the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) enacted in 1997. CHIPRA refers to the program as CHIP, not SCHIP. Several publications in this knowledge path were published before CHIPRA was signed into law, and therefore, use the acronym SCHIP.

Overview

See Covering Health Issues, 5th ed (2010), a briefing book by the Alliance for Health Reform. Chapter 6 addresses children's health coverage and offers facts, background information, policy debate summaries, tips and story ideas for reporters covering this topic, and a list of experts with contact information.

Resources for Professionals

Websites

Additional Electronic Publications

Databases

See the following set of MCH Library resource briefs to identify additional data and statistics, literature and research, and programs about health insurance and access to health care for children and adolescents.

News and Commentary

  • Center for Children and Families: Say Ahhh! A Children's Health Policy Blog. This blog focuses on expanding affordable health insurance coverage options for children and families. The left sidebar lists other health policy blogs.

  • Commonwealth Fund: Newsletters. This collection of newsletters addresses health reform, health care quality, state health policy, federal health policy, and newly released Commonwealth Fund resources. The Commonwealth Fund Blog presents analysis and commentary about health reform and other pressing health policy issues.

  • Families USA: State Health Beat. This electronic newsletter reports on the activities of state health care advocates. The Stand Up for Health Care blog offers analysis and commentary about health reform, children's health, Medicaid, and other health policy topics. Also sign up for the Health Action Network for e-mail updates with information and action steps on Medicaid, Medicare, children's health, private insurance, and other important health care developments.

  • Kaiser Health News. Coverage of health policy issues and developments at the federal and state levels and trends in the delivery of health care and in the marketplace. Presents daily summaries of major health care news from across the nation, as well as original videos and a broad range of commentary on topics that include health reform, Medicaid, and the uninsured.

Special Topics

Health Reform

This is a selection of the many health reform resources available electronically. This collection includes several websites that address health reform measures related to children and adolescents and several websites that provide coverage and analysis of federal and state health reform activities. Many of the websites listed in the General Resources for Professionals section also address health reform as noted in the website description for each.

Outreach and Enrollment

Resources for Families

Resources for Schools

Related MCH Library Resources

Health Insurance and Access to Care for Children and Adolescents: Knowledge Path, 6th ed. (June 2010). (Updated: February 2012).
Author: Susan Brune Lorenzo, M.L.S., MCH Library.
Reviewers: Beth Dworetzky, M.S., Massachusetts Family Voices and Massachusetts Family-to-Family Health Information Center; Rochelle Mayer, Ed.D., National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health; Margaret McManus, M.H.S., National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health.
Editor: Ruth Barzel, M.A., MCH Library.

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