Topic :: Special Populations
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- Testing the effectiveness of a web-based mobile health “clinician extender” application to improve contraceptive decision-making (K.P. Tebb, PhD, & F. Rodriguez, MA & L. Pollack, PhD, UCSF; S.L. Trieu, DrPH, L. Hwang, MD, & M. Puffer, MPA, UCLA; S. Adams, Phd, E. Ozer, PhD & CD Brindis, DrPH, UCSF) Health-E You/Salud iTu is a web-based mobile health application that aims…
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- Developing models of care for transgender youth (Guss CE, Inwards-Breland D, Ozer E, Vance S. Experiences with Querying Gender Identity across Seven Adolescent Medicine Sites. Journal of Adolescent Health. Published on-line, August 2018.) The AYAH-RN continues to advance our project on care for transgender youth, a key emerging issue. This study, led by Carly Guss, MD (BCH), David Breland, MD…
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- Provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 hold promise for improving access to and receipt of preventive services for adolescents and young adults (AYAs). The Title V Block Grant transformation also includes a focus on improving adolescent preventive care. In a new brief report, this article describes and discusses an inquiry of promising strategies for…
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- This compendium presents promising strategies to improve access to health insurance and quality preventive visits among AYAs. This resource stems from an exploratory study conducted by NAHIC/AYAH-NRC staff to review the experiences of selected “top performing” states related to ACA implementation. Click here for the report, with descriptions of specific initiatives led by agencies, cities, communities, and state health departments…
- Topic(s): Access & Utilization, Affordable Care Act, Clinical Preventive Services, Immigrants, Provider Training & Education, Quality Improvement, Special Populations, State & Community Programs, State Policy, Young Adults
- Type(s): Guidelines / Recommendations, Reports
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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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- Millions of Californians are expected to gain health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Between three and four million, however, are likely to remain uninsured, including about one million undocumented immigrants who are not eligible for the ACA’s federal coverage options. Included in this group are teens and young adults who are eligible for or have been granted Deferred Action…
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- This report by NAHIC and Child Trends starts off by describing the prevalence of different chronic conditions in the adolescent population including allergies, obesity, ADHD, asthma, learning disabilities, and more. It then goes on to discuss disparities, trends in chronic condition incidence, special health care needs of adolescents with chronic conditions, and the implications of chronic conditions for adolescents’ families.…
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- NAHIC and the Center for Adolescent Health and the Law (CAHL) have partnered to examine the Affordable Care Act’s impact on three special populations of adolescents and young adults: homeless youth, foster youth, and those in the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems. These groups, with higher rates of morbidity than the general adolescent and young adult populations, face special…
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- This 2012 study by researchers in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine examined the current rates of medical home attainment for adolescents. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all children and adolescents receive care in a medical home, which the AAP defines as an environment in which care is accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, and cultural effective. The…
