A Shifting Health Landscape for Adolescents and Young Adults: Planning for the Implementation of Federal Health Care Reform in New York
This brief is the second in a series of publications associated with a multi-year evaluation of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center (MSAHC), which provides comprehensive health services to adolescents and young adults ages 10-24 in the New York City metro area.
Health Insurance Access and Counseling Receipt and Their Association With Later Depressive and Suicidal Symptoms
This 2012 brief analyzes panel data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health for 9,996 adolescents to assess whether the receipt of supportive (psychological or emotional) counseling and access to health insurance is related to the persistence of adolescent depression and/or suicidality into young adulthood.
The Supreme Court ACA Decision: What Happens Now For Adolescents and Young Adults?
This brief examines major issues in health insurance and preventive services affecting adolescents and young adults, as implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act proceeds.
Adolescents | Health Care | Health Insurance | Policy | Young Adults
Access is a Prerequisite to Quality: Can Children Who Need Specialty Health Care Get in the Door?
A video of Dr. Karin Rhodes’ presentation at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, recorded September 13, 2012.
Best Practices | Disparities | Health Insurance | Special Needs | Special Populations | Web Video
Access to Health Care for Young Adults: The Affordable Care Act of 2010 is Making a Difference
This 2012 brief, created by the Center for Adolescent Health & the Law (CAHL) and NAHIC, discusses gains in private insurance coverage for young adults over the past two years and describes other provisions ACA that will further expand health insurance coverage and improve access to preventive services for this age group.
Young Adult Preventive Health Guidelines: There But Can’t Be Found
This review of existing preventive health guidelines for adolescents and adults recommends the establishment of “Young Adult Preventive Care Guidelines” that reflect the current evidence-based recommendations that overlap with the young adult age group.
Clinical Preventive Services | Guidelines | Health Care | Health Insurance | Recommendations | Transitions | Young Adults
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: How Does it Help Adolescents and Young Adults?
This 2010 brief, created by the Center of Adolescent Health and the Law (CAHL) and NAHIIC, reviews major provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act highlighting those of greatest significance for these young people.
Adolescents | Health Care | Health Insurance | Medicaid | Policy | Young Adults
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
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
Health Insurance Across Vulnerable Ages: Patterns and Disparities from Adolescence to the Early 30s
his 2007 article presents an analysis of patterns of health insurance, both public and privately funded, among young people from early adolescence through their early 30s.
Adolescents | Disparities | Health Care | Health Insurance | Lifespan | Medicaid | Transitions | Young Adults