Mothers’ Employment Attributes and Use of Preventive Child Health Services

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• Personal Author:
  Basu A ; Bell JF ; Booth-LaForce C ; Harris JR ; Shepherd-Banigan M
• Description:
  This study examines whether paid sick leave and hours worked per week are associated with receipt of recommended well-child visits, preventive dental care, influenza vaccines, obesity screening, and vision screening among U.S. children aged 0 to 17 years whose mothers were employed using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Residual inclusion instrumental variables methods were used to address unobserved confounding related to maternal employment and child health care use. Instruments were the industry-specific mean of paid leave and hours worked. Fewer than half of children received the recommended number of well-child visits and dental care; only 14% of children received an influenza vaccine in the past year. Paid sick leave was associated with increased adherence to recommended well-child visits (marginal probability, 0.12; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.23, 0.01), preventive dental care (marginal probability, 0.28; 95% CI = 0.34, 0.33), and receipt of the influenza vaccine (marginal probability, 0.09; 95% CI = 0.13, 0.05 ). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Delivery Of Health Care Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Pediatric Preventive Care Child Health Children Employee Health Maternal Employment Policies Medical Care Medical Screening Preventive Medicine Vaccines Work Organization Work Schedules

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• ISSN:
  1077-5587
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  208-226
• Volume:
  74
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20054185
• Citation:
  Med Care Res Rev 2017 Apr; 74(2):208-226
• Contact Point Address:
  Megan Shepherd-Banigan, Health Services Department, School of Public Health, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Magnuson Health Sciences Center, Box 357660, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
• Email:
  mes86@duke.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Performing Organization:
  University of Washington
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Medical Care Research and Review
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f16469134dcbc9b13a1d7c7cff6a5888b8aa48d09987f98b2e4772f73141db5dc84ec59c65bda4f79718da2cf43ccc1c143735c62662369031aa111161900226
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/216798/cdc_216798_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 107.70 KB ]