Children’s Health
This category shows HMO quality scores for helping children and adolescents get their vaccine shots to avoid illnesses that are preventable. The asthma care scores signal how well HMOs and their doctors see that children and adolescents get the right care for a common disease that is frightening and dangerous if it is not well controlled. The best HMOs and their doctors communicate with patients about common health risks — like sexually transmitted disease in younger, sexually active adolescents — and test those patients who are more likely to get such infections like Chlamydia.