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. 2008 Jun;43(3):882–900. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2007.00811.x

Table 1.

Prevalence of Need and Unmet Need for CSHCN by Insurance Type

Percent of CSHCN (Population Estimate in Thousands) Percent Needing Mental Health Care (Population Estimate in Thousands) Percent among Those Needing Care with Unmet Mental Health Care Need (Population Estimate in Thousands)
All CSHCN 100% (9,360) 25.4 (2,367) 18.1 (423)
 Emotional, developmental, or behavioral problem
 With 29.1 (2,680) 66.7 (1,787) 20.0 (352)
 Without 70.9 (6,544) 8.0 (522) 11.2 (58)
Insurance type
 Uninsured 5.2 (488) 29.8 (145) 46.0 (66)
 Medicaid only 15.5 (1,450) 37.4 (542) 20.0 (106)
 Medicaid and other insurance 10.3 (967) 33.6 (325) 15.4 (49)
 Other public and other public and private 6.5 (607) 25.1 (152) 23.4 (35)
 Private only 62.5 (5,848) 20.6 (1.203) 14.0 (166)

CSHCN, children with special health care needs.

All population estimates rounded to nearest thousand.

Missing values not included in calculations.

Calculated using individual-level sample weights.

Sample n=38,866.