Children/Young People with Disabilities and Complex Health Care Needs

Author(s):  
Sarah V. Wilcock
2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann McColl ◽  
Anna Jarzynowska ◽  
S.E.D. Shortt

2006 ◽  
pp. 313-324
Author(s):  
David M. B. Hall ◽  
David Elliman

Chapter 16 considers the needs of children in special circumstances, including ssylum seekers, refugees, and international adoptions, entitlements, emotional health and health care, screening and management of health problems, immunizations for children with no records, health care needs of traveller families, homeless families, and children and young people in prison.


2016 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 494
Author(s):  
Sâmara Sirdênia Duarte do Rosário Belmiro ◽  
Francisco Arnoldo Nunes de Miranda ◽  
Izabella Bezerra de Lima Moura ◽  
Simone Regina de Carvalho ◽  
Isabelle Katherine Fernandes Costa

Aim: To evaluate the health care needs of people with disabilities(PWD), hearing or visual through the development and constructionof an instrument which is validated by the Delphi technique. Methods: This is a methodological development study, which was held in three specialized institutions for disabled people in Mossoró, RN, between 2014 and 2017. The study has 2 stages: I -Identification of the health care needs of the PWD through an integrative literature review; II - Development and validation of the Assessment Tool for Health Care Needs of Physically, Hearing orVisually Impaired People (ATHCN-PWDPHV) regarding its contentand reliability and application of the toll in people with disabilities. The first two will be based on opinions of judges and on the Content Validity Index, and the last on the Alfa Cronbach. The SPSSsoftware will run chi-squared and Fisher's exact tests in order to do the research's descriptive analysis. It is hoped that the results found will contribute to the health planning of PWD.


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