What Gets Measured Gets Done: Assessing Data Availability for Adolescent Populations

This paper combines the conceptual and practical by:

• Offering a framework for assessing of health of adolescent sub-populations (e.g., such as rural and homeless/runaway youth);
• Describing the availability of data for these populations on priority indicators (see 21 Critical Health Objectives of Healthy People 2010.) through an extensive review of academic and government literature.

Recommendations are offered to strengthen monitoring systems for subpopulations of adolescents.

The article is available here:

Knopf, D. K., Park, M. J., Brindis, C. D., Paul Mulye, T., & Irwin, C. E., Jr. (2007).  What Gets Measured Gets Done: Assessing Data Availability for Adolescent Populations. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 11(4),335-345