Research :: Clinical Preventive Services

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

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

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

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

Innovations in Preventive Mental Health Care Services for Adolescents

This 2008 descriptive study examined programs designed to provide mental health-related preventive services to at-risk adolescents.

Adolescents | Clinical Preventive Services | Health Care | Mental Health

Clinical Preventive Services Guidelines

An ongoing project for the Policy Center has been the synthesis of clinical preventive services guidelines for middle childhood and adolescence.

Adolescents | Clinical Preventive Services | Middle Childhood

Clinical Preventive Services

An overview of our center’s work on clinical preventive services written in 2004. The area of Clinical Preventive Services is important for NAHIC faculty and staff because it provides a unique view of adolescent health issues.

Adolescents | Clinical Preventive Services | Guidelines | Health Care | State Data