Trends in Use of Eye Care Services for Children

儿童眼保健服务的使用趋势

基本信息

批准号：
6891262
负责人：
MICHAEL L GANZ
金额：
$ 8.2万
依托单位：
HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2004
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2004-05-01 至 2007-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

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.

为了提高公众对眼部疾病和视力障碍给个人和社会带来的负担和成本的认识，迫切需要有关眼部疾病患者的数量和特征的数据以及有关他们的眼保健资源使用情况的信息。由于儿童特别容易出现未被发现的问题，而且随着时间的推移，未被发现和被发现的问题都会恶化，可能严重影响他们的发育，因此有必要特别针对儿童检查这些特征。该项目的目的是分析儿童眼保健服务的获取、利用和支出趋势。我们还将估计患有眼部疾病的儿童数量，并量化存在以下疾病之间的关联：眼睛状况和眼保健服务的使用以及儿童、家庭和保险特征。该项目的具体目标是：(1) 描述美国诊断过眼部疾病的儿童（<18 岁）人口在社会经济 (SES)、临床和保险因素方面的特征（随着时间的推移，趋势将随着时间的推移而变化）。也进行检查）； (2) 估计儿童、家庭对眼科护理（包括眼镜和隐形眼镜）的使用和支出模式以及支付来源，以及儿童的保险范围（还将审查随时间变化的趋势）； (3) 估计家庭健康特征之间的关系，例如接触被动吸烟和父母眼部疾病史以及儿童的健康状况眼睛状况和服务的使用。我们将使用 1996 年至 2000 年医疗支出小组调查 (MEPS) 的数据，并辅以 1995 年至 1999 年全国健康访谈调查 (NHIS) 的信息，以实现这些目标。