Trends in Use of Eye Care Services for Children

儿童眼保健服务的使用趋势

• 批准号: 6756710
• 负责人: MICHAEL L GANZ
• 金额: $ 16.39万
• 依托单位: HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-01 至 2006-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6756710
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; child (0-11); clinical research; comorbidity; contact lens; disease /disorder proneness /risk; eye disorder chemotherapy; eye disorder diagnosis; family genetics; health care cost /financing; health care service availability; health care service utilization; health insurance; health services research tag; human data; pediatrics; socioeconomics; vision aid; vision disorders; vision tests

In order to increase public awareness of the individual and societal burdens and costs of eye conditions and visual impairment, data are urgently needed on the numbers and characteristics of people with eye conditions as well as information on their eye health care resource use. Since children are at particular risk for undetected problems and because both undetected and detected problems can become exacerbated over time, potentially seriously impacting on their development, there is a need to examine these characteristics especially for children. This purpose of this project is to present an analysis of the trends in access to, utilization of, and expenditures on eye care services for children. We will also estimate the number of children with diagnosed eye conditions and quantify the associations between the presence of eye conditions and use of eye care services and child, family, and insurance characteristics. The specific aims of this project are: (1) to characterize the population of children (<18 years old) in the United States who have diagnosed eye conditions with respect to socioeconomic (SES), clinical, and insurance factors (trends over time will also be examined); (2) to estimate utilization and expenditure patterns and sources of payment for eye care, including eyeglasses, and contact lenses by child, family, and insurance coverage for children (trends over time will also be examined); and (3) to estimate the relationship between family health characteristics, such as exposure to passive smoking and history of parental eye conditions and children's eye conditions and use of services. We will use data from the 1996 through the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys (MEPS), supplemented with information from the 1995 though the 1999 National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS), to pursue these goals.

为了提高公众对个人和社会负担的认识以及眼睛状况和视觉障碍的成本，迫切需要对具有眼病的人的数量和特征以及有关其眼保健资源使用的信息的数据。由于儿童特别面临未发现问题的风险，并且由于未被发现和发现的问题可能会随着时间的流逝而加剧，可能会严重影响他们的发展，因此有必要检查这些特征，特别是对于儿童。该项目的此目的是对儿童眼保健服务的访问，利用和支出的趋势进行分析。我们还将估计患有诊断为眼部状况的儿童的数量，并量化存在 眼保健服务以及儿童，家庭和保险特征的使用。该项目的具体目的是：（1）在美国诊断出有关社会经济（SES），临床和保险因素（随着时间的推移趋势）的儿童（<18岁）（<18岁）的表征； （2）估计眼部护理的利用和支出模式和支付来源，包括眼镜，以及儿童，家庭和保险范围的隐形眼镜（还将检查趋势）； （3）估计家庭健康特征之间的关系，例如暴露于被动吸烟和父母眼睛状况的历史和儿童的历史 眼睛条件和服务的使用。我们将使用1996年至2000年医疗支出小组调查（MEPS）的数据，并补充了1995年的1999年国家健康访谈调查（NHIS）的信息，以实现这些目标。