The Mental Health of Adolescents: A National Profile, 2008
This brief presents national data on measures ranging from well-being to substantial impairment. Please go to the Briefs & Fact Sheets Page to download this brief.
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This section provides resources with adolescent health data in different formats, including concise fact sheets and more detailed monographs. The publications and projects address a range of health topics, such as unintentional injury, substance use, mental health, reproductive health, positive measures of well-being, and special populations of adolescents.
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Publications
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.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets
NAHIC briefs and fact sheets are concise and easy to use. They have the most up-to-date information on specific topics.
11/06/06 at 10:06 AM
The Family Environment & Adolescent Well-Being: Exposure to Positive & Negative Family Influences
This brief provides data on the influences of parents on their adolescents, addressing issues such as parental monitoring and health behaviors. The brief is the result of a collaboration between Child Trends and NAHIC.
06/27/06 at 10:41 AM
A Health Profile of Adolescent and Young Adult Males
This brief highlights priority health issues for adolescent & young adult males and identifies key gender & racial/ethnic disparities. Click here
11/28/05 at 02:30 PM
America’s Adolescents: Are They Healthy?
Using the most current national adolescent health data available, this document covers a range of topics, including demographics, health care access and utilization, mortality, and risky behaviors.
07/30/04 at 11:46 AM
Measuring the Positives: Review of Positive Indicators and Guidelines for their Use
With support from the William T. Grant Foundation, NAHIC conducted a comprehensive review and analysis of approaches to and measures of positive youth development.
07/30/04 at 09:33 AM
Projects
Fact Sheets
Fact Sheets on a variety of adolescent health topics are developed and updated on an ongoing basis. These products represent the most current data available in the field of adolescent health.
07/30/04 at 11:32 AM
Society for Research on Adolescence - Book Chapter
NAHIC has been commissioned by the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) to write a book chapter describing trends in health policy and delivery that will impact the lives of adolescents in the next 30-50 years.
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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.
