title: The nation's children: do federal programs provide adequate eye/vision care?
abstract: Government involvement in child health programs is traced from the 1910 White House Conference on Children to current federal programs. This paper discussed the provisions, problems and anticipated changes in four of the leading federal programs offering eye/vision care.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D005128:Eye Diseases; D006801:Humans; D008484:Medicaid; D009313:National Health Programs; D009907:Optometry; D012943:Social Security; D014481:United States; D014483:United States Dept. of Health and Human Services; D014785:Vision, Ocular