title: Children's health care: brief report. ECI: a study in health care coordination.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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