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The Santa Clara County Healthy Kids Program: Impacts on Children's Medical, Dental, and Vision Care

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  • Christopher Trenholm
  • Embry M. Howell
  • Dana Hughes
  • Sean Orzol

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Health insurance coverage for children remains a serious policy issue throughout the United States. The Santa Clara County Children's Health Initiative (CHI), launched in January 2001, is an ambitious effort to close gaps in health insurance coverage for children.

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  • Christopher Trenholm & Embry M. Howell & Dana Hughes & Sean Orzol, "undated". "The Santa Clara County Healthy Kids Program: Impacts on Children's Medical, Dental, and Vision Care," Mathematica Policy Research Reports a5c7ef47c4844db694c8bc8e3, Mathematica Policy Research.
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