Highlights and Hazards: What Do the Current Health Care Bills Do for Adolescents and Young Adults?
This fact sheet provides an analysis of the major health care reform bills before the House and Senate as of November 2009.
Adolescents | Health Care | Health Insurance | Policy | 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.
Helping Young Men Thrive: Positive Youth Development and Men’s Health
This 2009 article explores Positive Youth Development for youth. Positive youth development (PYD) is a strong and growing field that complements the traditional problem-focused view of youth, and describes and promotes the healthy development and positive outcomes of young people
Adolescents | Development | Males | Programs | Young Adults | Youth Development
Adolescent and Young Adult Health: From Basic Health Status to Clinical Interventions
This 2009 chapter, written by two faculty members, focuses on the health status and clinical interventions of adolescents and young adults.
Adolescents | Clinical Preventive Services | Health Behavior | Health Care | Young Adults
Health Care for Homeless Youth: Policy Options for Improving Access
This issue brief, developed by the Center for Adolescent Health & the Law, presents an overview of the health care issues faced by homeless adolescents and young adults.
Adolescents | Health Care | Medicaid | Policy | Special Populations | Young Adults
Use of Mental Health Counseling as Adolescents Become Young Adults
This 2008 article uses AddHealth data to compare rates of mental health counseling use between adolescents and young adults.
Tracking Adolescent Health Policy: An Annotated List, 2008 Update
This 2008 brief provides an annotated list of organizations and agencies that monitor trends in state and federal policies related to the 21 Critical Health Objectives.
Adolescents | Health Behavior | Health Care | Mental Health | Obesity | Policy | Pregnancy | State Data | STIs/STDs | Substance Use | Youth Development