Medicaid-Based Child Restraint System Disbursement and Education and the Vaccines for Children Program: Comparative Cost-effectiveness

Ambulatory Pediatrics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-65

  Goldstein, Jesse A ^a   Winston, Flaura K ^a   Kallan, Michael J ^a   Branas, Charles C ^a   Schwartz, J Sanford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

child restraint; cost effective; disparities; injury; prevention

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ABSENTEEISM; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD SAFETY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEATH; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INFLUENZA; INJURY SEVERITY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEASLES; MEDICAID; MUMPS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRODUCTIVITY; REIMBURSEMENT; RUBELLA; SEATBELT; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VACCINATION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFANT; INFANT EQUIPMENT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEDICAID; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 38049143625     PISSN: 15301567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ambp.2007.08.008     Document Type: Article

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