Challenges in Adolescent Health Care: Workshop Report

91 Pages·2007·0.53 MB·English

by  Prevention

Committee on Adolescent Health Care Services and Models of Care for
Treatment, Prevention, and Healthy Development
Board on Children, Youth, and Families
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
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COMMITTEE ON ADOLESCENT HEALTH CARE SERVICES
AND MODELS OF CARE FOR TREATMENT, PREVENTION, AND
HEALTHY DEVELOPMENT
ROBERT S. LAWRENCE (Chair), Bloomberg School of Public Health,
The Johns Hopkins University
LINDA H. BEARINGER, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota
SHAY BILCHIK, Center for Juvenile Justice Reform and Systems
Integration, Georgetown University
SARAH S. BROWN, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen
Pregnancy, Washington, DC
LAURIE CHASSIN, Department of Psychology, Arizona State
University, Tempe
NANCY NEVELOFF DUBLER, Montefiore Medical Center, New York
BURTON L. EDELSTEIN, College of Dental Medicine, Columbia
University
HARRIETTE FOX, Maternal and Child Health Policy Research Center,
Washington, DC
CHARLES E. IRWIN, JR., School of Medicine, University of California,
San Francisco
KELLY J. KELLEHER, Columbus Children’s Research Institute, The
Ohio State University
GENEVIEVE M. KENNEY, Urban Institute, Washington, DC
JULIA GRAHAM LEAR, School of Public Health and Health Services,
Department of Prevention and Community Health, The George
Washington University
EDUARDO R. OCHOA, JR., Section of General Pediatrics, Arkansas
Children’s Hospital, Little Rock
FREDERICK P. RIVARA, Department of Pediatrics, University of
Washington, Seattle
VINOD K. SAHNEY, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts,
Boston
MARK A. SCHUSTER, RAND, Santa Monica, California, and
Departments of Pediatrics and Health Services, University of
California, Los Angeles
LONNIE SHERROD, Department of Psychology, Fordham University
MATTHEW STAGNER, Chapin Hall Center for Children, The
University of Chicago
LESLIE R. WALKER, Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center,
Seattle
THOMAS G. DeWITT (liaison from the Board on Children, Youth, and
Families), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

JENNIFER APPLETON GOOTMAN, Study Director
ALEXANDRA BEATTY, Rapporteur
LESLIE J. SIM, Program Officer
WENDY KEENAN, Program Associate
APRIL HIGGINS, Senior Program Assistant (until July 2007)
REINE Y. HOMAWOO, Senior Program Assistant (from August 2007)
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BOARD ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES
BERNARD GUYER (Chair), Bloomberg School of Public Health, The
Johns Hopkins University
BARBARA L. WOLFE (Vice Chair), Department of Economics and
Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin
WILLIAM R. BEARDSLEE, Department of Psychiatry, Children’s
Hospital, Boston
LINDA MARIE BURTON, Sociology Department, Duke University
P. LINDSAY CHASE-LANSDALE, Institute for Policy Research,
Northwestern University
BRENDA ESKENAZI, School of Public Health, University of California,
Berkeley
CHRISTINE C. FERGUSON, School of Public Health and Health
Services, The George Washington University
WILLIAM T. GREENOUGH, Department of Psychology, University of
Illinois
RUBY HEARN, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (emeritus),
Princeton, NJ
BETSY LOZOFF, Center for Human Growth and Development,
University of Michigan
SUSAN G. MILLSTEIN, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of
California, San Francisco
CHARLES A. NELSON, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Children’s Hospital, Boston
ELENA O. NIGHTINGALE, Institute of Medicine, The National
Academies, Washington, DC
PATRICIA O’CAMPO, Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St.
Michael’s Hospital, Toronto
LAURENCE D. STEINBERG, Department of Psychology, Temple
University
ELLEN A. WARTELLA, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and
Provost, University of California, Riverside
MICHAEL ZUBKOFF, Department of Community and Family Medicine,
Dartmouth Medical School
ROSEMARY CHALK, Board Director
WENDY KEENAN, Program Associate
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Preface
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 develop policy and research recommendations
that highlight critical health care needs, promising service models, and
components of care that may strengthen and improve health care services
for youth and contribute to healthy adolescent development. This report
summarizes the presentations and discussion at two one-day workshops
organized as a part of the work of this committee. These workshops were
an effort to take stock of the current knowledge base on adolescent health
care services, settings, and systems; to incorporate personal experiences;
and to help inform the work of the committee.
In November 2006 the committee convened a community forum to
elicit the views of those who use and those who provide adolescent health
care, with the goal of revealing gaps in current delivery mechanisms
through perspectives from people who work with vulnerable populations
of adolescents, individuals who work in different settings and systems
that deliver health care to adolescents, and young adults themselves. In
addition, the forum invited public stakeholders to present their views. In
January 2007 the committee convened a workshop to examine the research
base on the organization and delivery of adolescent health care services
by (1) reviewing the state of adolescent health care systems, (2) identify-
ing quality features of an adolescent health care system, (3) reviewing
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