Open AccessChildren With Special Health Care Needs and Forgone Family Employment
Author(s) -
Carolyn C. Foster,
Anna Chorniy,
Soyang Kwon,
Kristin Kan,
Nia Heard-Garris,
Matthew M. Davis
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.611
H-Index - 345
eISSN - 1098-4275
pISSN - 0031-4005
DOI - 10.1542/peds.2020-035378
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , odds ratio , logistic regression , health care , demography , ethnic group , affect (linguistics) , family income , child health , family medicine , pediatrics , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , sociology , anthropology , economics , economic growth
Family income is known to affect child health, but this relationship can be bidirectional. We sought to characterize this relationship by quantifying forgone family employment (FFE) due to a child's health condition in families of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) with updated figures.