Definition: Estimated percentage of children ages 0-17 with special health care needs (CSHCN) who receive coordinated, ongoing, comprehensive health care that meets American Academy of Pediatrics 'medical home' standards, by complexity of health care needs (e.g., in 2022, 28.8% of California CSHCN with more complex needs received care within a medical home).
Data Source: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Survey of Children's Health (Jun. 2024).
Footnote: A medical home is a model of delivering primary care that is accessible, family centered, continuous, comprehensive, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective. For more information, visit the American Academy of Pediatrics. In these estimates, children receiving care within a medical home must meet criteria for three components of primary care: (i) personal doctor or nurse, (ii) usual source for sick care, and (iii) family-centered care. Children needing (iv) referrals to specialty care and/or (v) care coordination must also meet criteria for those components. Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally. CSHCN with 'less complex needs' experience health conditions that are managed primarily through prescription medication; children with 'more complex needs' require additional care, services, or therapies in order to manage their conditions. These estimates are based on a survey of the population and are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error The notation S refers to estimates that have been suppressed because (a) there were fewer than 20 respondents in that group, or (b) the margin of error for the estimate is greater than 10 percentage points. The annotation [!] indicates that the estimate's margin of error is greater than 5 percentage points but not greater than 10 percentage points. For more information, see https://www.childhealthdata.org/learn-about-the-nsch/NSCH. Estimates published on childhealthdata.org may differ from data presented here due to differences in the treatment of unknown or missing responses.
