The State and National Data Profiles Updated With Final Year Data For Healthy People 2010
The State and National Data Profiles allows users to assess recent progress on Healthy People 2010’s 21 Critical Health Objectives by presenting data and text highlights that correspond to the baseline (1998-99) and final (2007-09) measures.
Adolescents | Demographics | Healthy People | Mortality | Obesity | Sexual Health | State Data | Substance Use | Tools | Young Adults
Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: Trends in Achieving the 21 Critical National Health Objectives by 2010
This study assessed trends in the 21 Critical National Health Objectives between 1991 and 2009, and from baseline years for which 2010 targets were established to 2009, and the extent to which targets were achieved.
Adolescents | Health Behavior | Healthy People | Monitoring | Trends | Young Adults
The Association of BMI Status With Adolescent Preventive Screening
This recent study by NAHIC staff investigated whether providers target adolescent preventive screening on the basis of BMI status, with a focus on overweight adolescents, given recent guidelines.
Adolescents | Clinical Preventive Services | Guidelines | Health Care | Healthy Eating | Obesity
Health Care Services and the Transition to Young Adulthood: Challenges and Opportunities
This study examines the potential role of the health care system in the successful transition to young adulthood for all adolescents, with emphasis on adolescents with special health care needs (ASHCN).
Adolescents | Health Care | Policy | Special Needs | Transitions | Young Adults
Who Gets Confidential Care? Disparities in a National Sample of Adolescents
This paper uses the 2001–2004 Medical Expenditures Panel Survey to examine rates of past-year adolescent time alone with a clinician by visit type, and among youths with a preventive visit, examined age, gender, and race/ethnicity differences.
Adolescents | Clinical Preventive Services | Disparities | Guidelines | Health Care
To Tweet, or Not to Tweet: Gender Differences and Potential Positive and Negative Health Outcomes of Adolescents’ Social Internet Use
This paper reviews recent peer-reviewed literature and national data on 1) adolescents use of online social media, 2) gender differences in online social media and 3) potential positive and negative health outcomes from adolescents’ online social media use.
Adolescents | Gender | Internet | Males | Social Networking | Young Adults
Trends in Adolescent and Young Adult Health in the United States
This article reviews health trends for adolescents and young adults, providing a single source for a national health profile. Data are presented on demographics, mortality, health-related behaviors, and healthcare access and utilization and major gender and racial/ethnic disparities are highlighted.
Adolescents | Demographics | Disparities | Health Behavior | Health Care | Monitoring | Mortality | Trends | Young Adults
Risky Behaviors in Late Adolescence: Co-occurrence, Predictors, and Consequences
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth this study: (1) identifies profiles of risky behaviors, (2) investigates how environmental characteristics predict these profiles of risky behaviors (e.g., delinquency, smoking, drug use, drinking, sexual behavior, and exercise), and (3) examines how these profiles of risky behaviors relate to positive and negative youth outcomes.
Adolescents | Disparities | Health Behavior | Transitions | Young Adults
Preventive Care for Adolescents: Few Get Visits and Fewer Get Services
This article 2009 examines rates and disparities in access to preventive care and receipt of recommended preventive services among adolescents.
Adolescents | Clinical Preventive Services | Disparities | Guidelines | Health Care | Health Insurance
Marijuana: Use Among Young Males and Health Outcomes
This 2009 article reviews relevant literature, including trends in young males’ marijuana use and health effects of marijuana use.
