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.
11/06/09 at 01:09 PM
NAHIC Goals
The goals of NAHIC are:
- ♦ to serve as a national resource for adolescent health information and research; and
- ♦ to assure the integration, synthesis, coordination and dissemination of adolescent health-related information.
What's New
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.
07/01/09 at 04:28 PM
Institute of Medicine/National Research Council Video and Report
A video from the Institute of Medicine/National Research Council features NAHIC Project Director Charles E. Irwin, Jr., MD.
04/10/09 at 04:22 PM
A Question of Hope: Reducing Latina Teen Childbearing in California
Dr. Claire Brindis is featured in a video on young Latina childbearing in California.
04/10/09 at 04:03 PM
Stress and Stress Management Among Youth and Young Men
This article examines research related to stress and stress management, with a focus on young males. It offers recommendations for improving health care quality and strengthening the research base on stress and gender during youth.
04/10/09 at 03:44 PM
What's Featured This Month
What Gets Measured Gets Done: Assessing Data Availability for Adolescent Populations
This paper provides an overview of the availability of data for specific adolescent sub-populations by the 21 Critical Health Objectives. The expanded tables provide the actual data for each sub-population by each specific 21 Critical Health Objective. Click here to access this article06/21/07 at 02:34 PM
NAHIC is honored to be the 2006 recipient of the Society for Adolescent Medicine's Millar Award for Innovative Approaches to Adolescent Health Care. Please click on the picture below to download the Award presentation.
Please be sure to visit our Sister Site, the Policy Center. Resources on the site include papers on Young Adult health, Middle Childhood documents, a Brief listing organizations that track state and federal policies in adolescent health, and many more publications.
We are pleased to announce our partnership with Child Trends. Together we conduct research, create resources and offer assistance to improve the health of young people and their families.
