Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health

TABLE B-2 Child Health Condition Categories (by ICD9 Code) with Selected Highlights

ICD9 Code	Health Conditions, Disorders, or Diseases	NHIS	NHANES	MEPS
001–139	Infectious and parasitic diseases	●	○●●	●
	042: AIDS		○
	079: Syphilis		○●
	055: Measles		○
140–239	Neoplasms		●●	●
240–279	Endocrine, nutritional, metabolic			●
	250: Diabetes mellitus	●	○●●	●
280–289	Blood and blood-forming organs	●	●	●
	280: Iron-deficiency anemia	●	○●
	984: Lead poisoning		○●
290–319	Mental disorders	●●	●●	●●
	300: Depression		●●	●
	314: ADD/ADHD	●	●●	●
	315: Mental retardation	●		●
320–389	Nervous system & sense organs	●●		●
390–459	Circulatory system	●		●
460–519	Respiratory system	●●	●●	●
	493: Asthma	●●	●●	●
520–579	Digestive system	●	●	●
	521: Oral health (cavities, etc)		○	●
580–629	Genitourinary system
630–676	Pregnancy, childbirth, puerperium		○●	●
	635: Abortion
680–709	Skin and subcutaneous tissue	●	○●●	●
710–739	Musculoskeletal/connective tissue	●		●
740–759	Congenital abnormalities	●		●
760–779	Conditions in perinatal period
	765: Low birthweight	●	●
	765: Very low birthweight	●	●
780–799	Symptoms/ill-defined conditions	●		●
800–999	Injury and poisoning	●		●
	995: Child abuse
V01–V82	Supplemental influences on health
	V22: Pregnancy		●
E800–E999	Supplemental injury, poisoning	●
	E950–959: Suicide
	Chronic condition (general measure)
NHIS = National Health Interview Survey; NHANES = National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; MEPS = Medical Expenditure Panel Survey; YRBS = Youth Risk Behavior Survey; NLSY = National Longitudinal Survey of Youth; Add Health = National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health; NSFH = National Survey of Families and Households; ECLS-K = Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Class; ECLS-B = Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort; NHES = National Household Education Surveys; NSECH = National Survey of Early Childhood Health; NSCSHCN = National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs

Table of Contents

Front Matter R1-R12

Executive Summary 1-12

1 Introduction 13-27

2 Children's Health: A New Conceptual Framework 28-44

3 Influences on Children's Health 45-90

4 Measuring Children's Health 91-115

5 Measuring Influences on Children's Health 116-163

6 Developing State and Local Data Systems 164-191

7 Conclusions and Recommendations 192-210

References 211-252

Appendix A: Datasets for Measuring Children's Health and Influences on Children's Health 253-261

Appendix B: Gaps Analysis of Measures of Children's Health and Influences on Children's Health in Select National Surveys 262-287

Appendix C: Selected Indicators from National Children's Data Syntheses 288-301

Appendix D: Glossary 302-304

Appendix E: Acronyms 305-307

Appendix F: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff 308-314

Index 315-324