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Texas State Board of Insurance. Research and Information Services. – 1985
This document reports on the feasibility of requiring private insurance carriers to provide coverage of the pregnancy-related expenses of dependent minors and newborn care expenses of their offspring in Texas. The document relates the history of legislative interest in the topic of teenage pregnancy. The report states that although private medical…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Females, Health Insurance
Peer reviewedMcDonald, Ann C.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1982
More than 85 percent of the physicians surveyed indicated they are the initial informants to parents regarding the existence of a handicap and the information is immediately presented after birth to both parents, including specific diagnostic labels, possible causation, prognosis, and resources for the family. (Author)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Communication Skills, Disabilities, Disability Identification
National Center for Clinical Infant Programs, Washington, DC. – 1985
Representatives of several states met to identify basic elements of a tracking system designed to ensure that disabled and at-risk infants and their families receive continuous and appropriate services to improve health and developmental outcome. Discussants explored six clusters of questions concerning the following: realistic goals and…
Descriptors: Criteria, Delivery Systems, High Risk Persons, Identification
Keeling, Maud; And Others – 1983
The pamphlet describes three Hogg Foundation-funded Texas programs (one exclusively hospital-based, one hospital-based with extensive linkages to community resources, and one community-based) which serve predominantly high-risk, low-income Mexican American families. First described are social work services connected with the Driscoll Foundation…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Community Health Services, Cultural Context
