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Children’s Health, The Nation’s Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health
family health care seeking and health care access. Similarly, surveys focused on health outcomes have comparatively little information on such influences as family and communities variables.
Over time, a comprehensive continuous measurement system should be informed and evolve based on knowledge gained from continued research and expanded data collection in existing surveys.
