Patterns of healthcare utilization with placement changes for youth in foster care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children in foster care experience poor health and high healthcare use. Child welfare agencies frequently require healthcare visits when children enter foster care; subsequent placement changes also disrupt healthcare. Studies of healthcare use have not accounted for placement changes.

Objective

To understand patterns of healthcare use throughout the time a child enters foster care and with placement changes, accounting for mandated visits when children enter foster care or experience a placement change.

Participants and setting

Children 4 and older in foster care between 2012 and 2017 (N = 2787) with linked child welfare administrative data from one county child welfare agency and one Midwest pediatric healthcare system.

Methods

Negative binomial mo

SUBMITTER: Beal SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11697974 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature