. "Appendix C: Recommendations from Prior Selected Reports." Cancer Care for the Whole Patient: Meeting Psychosocial Health Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2008.
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Cancer Care for the Whole Patient: Meeting Psychosocial Health Needs
Report
Recommendations
Childhood CancerSurvivorship:Improving Careand Quality of Life(IOM and NRC,2003)
Recommendation 5 HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau and its partners should be fully supported in implementing the Healthy People 2010 goals for Children with Special Health Care Needs. These efforts include a national communication strategy, efforts at capacity building, setting standards, and establishing accountability. Meeting these goals will benefit survivors of childhood cancer and other children with special health care needs.
Achievingthe Promise:TransformingMental HealthCare in America(New FreedomCommission onMental Health,2003)
Recommendation 2.2 Involve consumers and families fully in orienting the mental health systems toward recovery.
Recommendation 4.2 Improve and expand school mental health programs.
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