Improving the Health of Youth – A Guide for State-Level Strategic Planning and Action This guide is designed to provide tools and practical ideas for developing and implementing an adolescent health strategic plan. It draws from the strategic planning field and the practical experience of state public health professionals who have developed and implemented adolescent health plans. Create your free…
Adapted from Improving the Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Guide for States and Communities, this brief provides an overview on how to use data to shape health programs for youth. Supplemented with tables and case studies, this brief reviews major data sources and offers guidance for developing a youth profile and conducting a needs-and-assets assessment based on the 21…
Improving the Health of Adolescents & Young Adults: A Guide for States and Communities is a companion to Healthy People 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ comprehensive, nationwide health promotion and disease prevention agenda. The document helps communities and individuals translate the Healthy People 2010 objectives that are key to adolescent health and safety into a vision…
This tool serves as a checklist for professionals to plan and evaluate health care components for adolescents. Originally developed in 1998, in response to the expansion in managed care settings, the checklist includes features still important for creating youth-friendly health care services. The tool was developed as the result of a collaborative project conducted the San Francisco Department of Public…
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