Topic :: Clinical Preventive Services
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- State Medicaid programs can have a key role in assuring receipt of an annual well visit among adolescent enrollees, consistent with the Bright Futures guidelines. In a new report, the AYAH-NRC examines factors linked to high well visit rates in top-performing states. This effort was led by AYAH-NRC partners Annie Schmidt, MPH and Peggy McManus, MHS of the National Alliance…
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- The Affordable Care Act (ACA) brought with it many changes to access and cost of preventive care for young adults. Now new research published in the Journal of Adolescent Health examines the health care reform’s impact on young adults. A UCSF team led by Dr. Sally Adams analyzed data on young adult well visits and three preventive service measures before and…
- Topic(s): Access & Utilization, Affordable Care Act, Clinical Preventive Services, Data & Trends, Health, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Immunizations, Policy, Population, Programs & Policies, Trends, Young Adults
- Type(s): Journal Articles
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- Supplement on the Integration of Innovative Technologies to support improving AYAH health (E. Ozer, PhD, UCSF) Led by Dr. Ozer, AYAH-RN PI, this supplement in the Journal of Adolescent Health will feature several articles focused on utilizing innovative technology to improve the health of AYAs, including three manuscripts based on AYAH-RN projects described elsewhere: 1) “A Developmental Science Approach to…
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- Behavioral/Emotional Screening Tool for clinical settings (E. Ozer, PhD, Sara Buckelew, MD, Veronika Mesheriakova, UCSF) Health-e-Check, originally developed by Ozer and colleagues through AHRQ funding, is being updated with the goal of streamlining integration into the electronic medical record to serve as a prototype for other LEAH projects and beyond. Health e-Check provides a screening report to adolescent providers to…
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- Developing a parent-focused intervention (S. Harris, PhD, BCH/HU; M. Aalsma, PhD, IU; L. C. Ford, MD, U Penn; C. McCarty, PhD, & L. Richardson, MD, MPH & SCH/UW; Renee Sieving, PhD, RN, UMn; E. Ozer, Ph.D & Jane Park, MPH, UCSF) Led by Dr. Sion Harris, with participation from a broad range of LEAH sites, the AYAH-Research Network is embarking…
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- The Adolescent and Young Adult Health National Resource Center (AYAH-NRC) is pleased to announce “Transforming Health Care for Adolescents and Young Adults.” A change package is a set of materials and ideas that guide and enable improvement teams to implement change in their settings. “Transforming Health Care for Adolescents and Young Adults” is an interactive module, housed by the Association…
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- The Adolescent and Young Adult Health National Resource Center (AYAH-NRC) is pleased to release promotional materials to support your work in addressing National Performance Measure 10 (percent of adolescents who receive an annual preventive visit in the past-year). These materials are intended for use by state agencies, health clinics, insurers, MCOs, or anyone engaged in promoting the health of young people.…
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- Despite decades of adolescent preventive well visit and services promotion (Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services and Bright Futures), rates are below recommended levels and little is known of the effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation on these care rates. In a new article, NAHIC researchers compared pre- and post-ACA rates of well visits and preventive…
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- Commentary on research on adolescent and young adult health (Irwin CE, Jr. Advancing a research agenda for adolescent and young adult health. J Adolesc Health. 2017; 60(3): 233-4.) Dr. Irwin, AYAH-RN co-Principal Investigator, authored a commentary published in the March 2017 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, with the AYAH-RN’s three review articles described above. The commentary reviewed major…
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- Review article on Clinical Preventive Services. (Harris SK, Aalsma MC, Weitzman ER, et al. Research on clinical preventive services for adolescents and young adults: Where are we and where do we need to go? J Adolesc Health. 2017; 60(3): 249-60.) AYAH-Research Network partners authored a review article on AYA clinical preventive services (CPS), examining evidence for increasing access to CPS,…
