Challenges in Adolescent Health Care Workshop Report (2007) / Chapter Skim
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And while much of the health care system is focused on addressing problems that derive predominantly from biological causes, the health concerns of adolescents generally involve behavioral practices. Adolescence thus is a time of tremendous opportunities, but there are daunting challenges and complexities inherent in helping young people develop practices and relationships that they can carry into their adult lives.
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The Committee on Adolescent Health Care Services and Models of Care for Treatment, Prevention, and Healthy Development was formed by the National Academies in May 2006, with funding from The Atlantic Philanthropies, to study adolescent health care services in the United States and highlight critical health care needs, promising service models, and components of care that may strengthen and improve health care services, settings, and systems for adolescents and contribute to healthy adolescent development. Committee members brought to this task expertise in the areas of adolescent health, general pediatrics, health care services, adolescent development, school-based health services, health care finance, mental health, alcohol, tobacco, and drug use, sexual health, oral health, nursing, public policy, statistics and epidemiology, preventive medicine, program evaluation, injury research, law, and immigrant and minority adolescents.
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The committee planned two public workshops to inform its members about several issues that come under this broad charge and to supplement a literature review and research analysis. The first of these was a community forum held in November 2006, designed to elicit the views of a diverse group of health care providers and young people who use and provide adolescent health care, with the goal of revealing gaps in current mechanisms for delivering health care to adolescents, with a particular
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The community forum allowed the committee to learn from the experiences of selected populations of vulnerable adolescents, voiced both by young people themselves and by adults who work with them. It also provided a look at the structures through which health care is provided and the perspectives of providers and funders of health care for adolescents, especially those who are in difficult circumstances.
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It is organized around the themes and questions that were presented and discussed, and it is not intended as a comprehensive review of issues related to the delivery of health care to adolescents, or a comprehensive summary of available data on adolescent health issues. The committee hopes that the ideas and information presented in the report will be helpful to the variety of stakeholders with a particular interest in health care for adolescents.
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