Children's health care: brief report. ECI: a study in health care coordination.
The delivery of appropriate services to handicapped and developmentally delayed young children is an increasingly complex undertaking. No single profession is responsible for providing these services; no single agency is responsible for their administration. In a concerted effort to coordinate these services and assure optimum benefit to the target population, an amalgam of political, professional, and parent forces in Texas led to the creation of ECI--the Early Childhood Intervention Program. This program and the way in which it has evolved exemplifies how disparate groups can work together to provide a comprehensive system of children's health care.
D002662:Child Health Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013781:Texas