Racial/ethnic differences in Medicaid expenditures on psychotropic medications among maltreated children

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1002-1010

  Raghavan, Ramesh ^a   Brown, Derek S ^a   Allaire, Benjamin T ^b   Garfield, Lauren D ^a   Ross, Raven E ^a   Snowden, Lonnie R ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Ethnicity; Expenditures; Medicaid; Psychotropic drugs; Race

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD NEGLECT; CHILD WELFARE; DRUG COST; DRUG UTILIZATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; NONHUMAN; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE COST; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902551738     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: 18737757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.02.013     Document Type: Article

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