December 12th, 2018 The Young Invincibles, a partner of the AYAH-NRC, has published a presentation on important health insurance information and outreach best practices when marketing to young adults. This slide deck also offers insights into the latest changes to health insurance options as of 2018. Check out this new resource below! View or download the Young Adult Health Insurance presentation…
Got Transition, a program of The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health, has released a new toolkit that provides suggested content for providers to introduce health care transition during preventive visits with early adolescents (ages 11-14), middle adolescents (ages 15-17), late adolescents (ages 18-21), and young adults (ages 22-25). This toolkit was created in partnership with the Adolescent and Young…
Linkage between civic engagement in adolescence and physical and mental health status in young adulthood. The AYAH-RN supported Drs. Ballard, Hoyt and Pachucki et al in a research project that examined the link between civic engagement during late adolescence and early adulthood, and socioeconomic status and mental and physical health in adulthood, using nationally representative data from the National Longitudinal…
The AYAH Center’s Dr. Claire Brindis recently published an article titled, “Young Adults Changing Insurance Status: Gaps in Health Insurance Literacy” in the Journal of Community Health. This study examines gaps in health insurance literacy that can impede young adults’ access to timely care when changing insurance, and assessed types of resources that can smooth young adults’ coverage transitions. Researchers…
Dr. Charles Irwin, AYAH-NRC’s Project Director, presented at the National Millennial Health Summit in September 2016. Hosted by Young Invincibles and YI Advisors, the goal of this Summit is to bring national attention to the challenges and opportunities in Millennial health and highlight effective examples of connecting Millennials from coverage to care. Dr. Irwin presented an “Overview of Health Care…
The ACA has focused national attention on the importance of clinical preventive services for adolescents and young adults. Providing these services to young adults offers clinicians the opportunity to shape their patient’s health throughout the life course, yet many clinicians lack the tools and specific knowledge to do so. In November 2017, NAHIC updated its fact sheet designed to guide…
The Adolescent and Young Adult Health National Resource Center (AYAH-NRC), in partnership with the Adolescent and Young Adult Health Research Network (AYAH-RN), held a workshop at the SAHM 2016 Annual Meeting— “Youth in Context: Interactions among Adolescents, Environments, and Healthcare.” AYAH-NRC Workshop, March 9, 2016, “The ACA and Access to Care for AYAs: Opportunities and Challenges to Improve Systems of…
In September 2015, the AYAH-NRC convened a summit with the Adolescent and Young Adult Health Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (“CoIIN”) with participants from five state teams: New Mexico, Texas, Iowa, Mississippi, and Vermont. These presentations offer user-friendly overviews on key aspects of initiatives to improve well visits, such as quality improvement, public education, partnership development, special considerations for young…
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…
This original research article, Improvement in Preventive Care of Young Adults After the Affordable Care Act: The Affordable Care Act Is Helping, by researchers in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine investigated how the implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act affected young adults’ rates of insurance and receipt of preventive services. Using data Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, the…