Research Catalog

Title

Adolescent health services : missing opportunities / Committee on Adolescent Health Care Services and Models of Care for Treatment, Prevention, and Healthy Development, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies ; Robert S. Lawrence, Jennifer Appleton Gootman, Leslie J. Sim, editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors

• Lawrence, Robert S., 1938-
• Gootman, Jennifer Appleton.
• Sim, Leslie J.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Adolescent Health Care Services and Models of Care for Treatment, Prevention, and Healthy Development.
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.)

Description

xxi, 344 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Adolescent Health Services examines the health status of adolescents and reviews the separate and uncoordinated programs and services that currently exist in multiple public and private health care settings. The book provides guidance to administrators in public and private health care agencies, health care workers, guidance counselors, parents, school administrators, and policy makers on investing in, strengthening, and improving an integrated health system for adolescents."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• United States
• Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
• Adolescent Development
• Needs Assessment
• Teenagers > Medical care > United States
• Health Status
• Adolescent Health Services
• Quality of Health Care

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Setting the Stage -- 2. Adolescent Health Status -- 3. Current Adolescent Health Services, Settings, and Providers -- 4. Improving Systems of Adolescent Health Services -- 5. Preparing a Workforce to Meet the Health Needs of Adolescents -- 6. Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Adolescent Health Services -- 7. Overall Conclusions and Recommendations -- App. A. Acronyms -- App. B. Harris Interactive Omnibus Survey Questions -- App. C. Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff.

ISBN

• 9780309114677 (hardback)
• 0309114675 (hardback)

LCCN

2008042174

OCLC

• ocn184826509
• 184826509
• SCSB-5450645

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries