Marketwatch - Benefits for employees with children with special needs: Findings from the collaborative employee benefit study

Health Affairs

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1096-1103

  Perrin, James M ^a,b   Fluet, Christina F ^c   Honberg, Lynda ^d   Anderson, Betsy ^e   Wells, Nora ^e   Epstein, Susan ^f   Allen, Deborah ^g   Tobias, Carol ^g   Kuhlthau, Karen A ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy

^d HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^e Federation for Children With Special Needs   (United States)

^f New England SERVE

^g BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD CARE; ECONOMICS; FAMILY; FAMILY LEAVE; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HEALTH; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BOSTON; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; CHILD CARE; DISABLED CHILDREN; FAMILY; FAMILY LEAVE; FLORIDA; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS, EMPLOYEE; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; OHIO; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH; WASHINGTON;

EID: 34548316808     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.4.1096     Document Type: Article

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14. An online Technical Appendix provides a more detailed description of our methods; go to http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/26/4/1096/DC1.
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