Special 1B: Children with special health care needs: Percentage of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) ages 0–17 by insurance type, number of conditions, effect on daily activities, and criteria met to determine CSHCN status, 2005

Special 1B: Children with special health care needs: Percentage of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) ages 0–17 by insurance type, number of conditions, effect on daily activities, and criteria met to determine CSHCN status, 2005–2006

Characteristic	Percentage
Insurance type
Private	59.3
Public^a	28.1
Private and public^a	7.4
Other comprehensive^b	1.7
Uninsured	3.5
Number of parent-reported health conditions
No conditions^c	8.9
One condition	33.9
Two conditions	32.2
Three conditions	14.1
Four or more conditions	10.9
Effect on daily activities
Never affected^d	37.5
Moderately affected	38.5
Usually or always affected	24.0
Criteria met to determine CSHCN status^e
Prescription medication	78.4
Elevated service use	38.8
Emotional, behavioral, or developmental problem	28.6
Limitations in activities	21.5
Use of or need for therapies	17.7
^a Public health insurance includes Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and Medicare coverage.
^b Comprehensive coverage includes any insurance coverage or health plan that pays for both doctor visits and hospital stays but could not be conclusively determined to be public or private coverage.
^c No survey could include a complete list of all conditions that CSHCN may have. This survey included 16 conditions. Nine percent of CSHCN did not have one of these 16 conditions.
^d Children whose conditions never affected their daily activities reflect either the effects of treatment used to manage the condition or the nature of the condition.
^e Percentages do not equal 100% because CSHCN may have met more than one criterion.
NOTE: Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) were identified using the five-item CSHCN Screener. Children are considered to have a special health care need if they have a parent-reported physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition that has lasted or is expected to last 12 months or longer and that requires health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required generally by children of the same age.
SOURCE: Maternal and Child Health Bureau and National Center for Health Statistics, State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey, National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs, 2005–2006.