Topic :: Socio-demographic disparities
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- The COVID-19 pandemic brought increased attention to the mental health status and needs experienced by young adults. The 2021 Surgeon General’s Advisory addressing the importance of protecting youth mental health highlights the growing mental health crisis among children, adolescents, and young adults. Among young adults, mental health conditions had been rising prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and during the COVID-19…
- Topic(s): Access & Utilization, Depression, Emerging Issues, Health, Health Care, Mental / Behavioral Health, Mental / Behavioral Health Care, Mortality, Population, Socio-demographic disparities, Substance Use, Suicide, Young Adults
- Type(s): Guidelines / Recommendations, Toolkits
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- The Adolescent and Young Adult Health National Resource Center (AYAH-NRC) is pleased to announce the: “Framing Adolescent Health: Are You Sending the Right Message” webinar series -ARCHIVED WEBINARS BELOW- As members of the adolescent health community we all – both as individuals and in our agencies or organizations – have a role to play in shaping how people think…
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- This study, written by The University of California — Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine in collaboration with ICF International, is part of a series of publications associated with a multi-year evaluation of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center (MSAHC), which provides comprehensive health services to adolescents and…
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- This paper, released October 2015, was written by researchers from the University of California, San Francisco Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. Through considerable efforts and investments of resources, adolescent pregnancy and birth rates in the United States have decreased significantly over the past two decades. Nonetheless, large disparities persist for many populations of youth. Reducing unintended adolescent…
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- Adolescence is a critical stage of development during which physical, intellectual, emotional, and psychological changes occur. While adolescence is a relatively healthy period of life, adolescents begin to make lifestyle choices and establish behaviors that affect both their current and future health. During this transition from childhood to adulthood, serious health and safety issues such as motor vehicle crashes, violence,…
- Topic(s): Access & Utilization, Affordable Care Act, Clinical Preventive Services, Confidential Care, Families, Mortality, Quality Improvement, Risky Behavior, Socio-demographic disparities, Special Populations, Youth-Centered Care
- Type(s): Webinars / Presentations
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- Preventive visits among adolescents and young adults offer a key opportunity to promote healthy choices and screen for emerging potential problems. In a new article, NAHIC researchers compared rates of past-year preventive visits among adolescents and young adults across several national surveys. The study also examined survey features, including mode of administration, respondent, response rate, demographic profile, and preventive visit…
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- This 2014 article, written by researchers from the University of California San Francisco Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, investigates the health needs and challenges of DACA-eligible young adults, a population that has rarely been studied. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program served qualified undocumented young immigrants who may be eligible for temporary legal status but who…
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- Only a small proportion of American adolescents are described by a parent as being only in fair or poor health. However, a 2014 brief from Child Trends, presents national data showing that these youth differ from their reportedly healthier peers on several health, family, school and neighborhood characteristics. This brief provides a comprehensive portrait of this special population of adolescens. The…
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- Led by our partners at Child Trends, NAHIC developed three briefs examining how youth are faring in the transition to adulthood, with respect to having problems related to heavy alcohol use, illicit drug use, criminal behavior, and financial hardship. Encouraging news from the first brief is that most young adults avoid these problems and most of those who have moderate…
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- This review paper, entitled Adolescent and Young Adult Health in the United States in the Past Decade: Little Improvement and Young Adults Remain Worse Off Than Adolescents, was published by researchers at the National Adolescent and Young Adult Health Information Center (NAHIC). The paper has two aims: (1) to examine trends in key indicators in outcomes, behaviors, and health care over…
