title: School illnesses: who's absent and why?
abstract: The frequently absent child is most likely to be a girl of minority status whose family uses a public health clinic for services and is on Medicaid. Those students whose main source of health care was the school clinic had fewer absences due to illness.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Kornguth
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004522:Educational Status; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups; D009017:Morbidity; D012572:School Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012573:School Nursing; D014481:United States