Table 1
Prevalence of CSHCN (Children with Special Health Care Needs) items, population aged 6 to 10, British Columbia, 2005 to 2007

Table 1
Prevalence of CSHCN (Children with Special Health Care Needs) items, population aged 6 to 10, British Columbia, 2005 to 2007
Table summary
This table displays the results of Prevalence of CSHCN (Children with Special Health Care Needs) items. The information is grouped by CSHCN item (appearing as row headers), % and Number (appearing as column headers).
CSHCN item	%	Number
Any of items 1 to 5	17.5	40,840
Item 1 (medicine use)	3.3	7,596
Item 2 (more medical care use than usual)	14	32,605
Item 3 (functional limitations)	5.2	12,033
Item 4 (physical, occupational or speech therapy)	0.1	179
Item 5 (counselling)	1.9^Note †	4,324
Note † inclusion of children who had a prescription filled for a drug categorized for the nervous system under the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System raised the percentage to 4.15%, but the final percentage identified as CSHCN by any of the five items did not change significantly (17.5% versus 18.1%) Return to note † referrer Source: Population Data BC, 2005 to 2007.

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