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ERIC Number: ED397196
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1992-Jun
Pages: 86
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
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Comprehensive Adolescent Health Services in the United States, 1990.
Center for Early Adolescence, Carrboro, NC.; North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill. Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.; North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill. Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
Various model programs for comprehensive health service delivery to adolescents have been proposed and implemented, but few of these programs have been evaluated systematically. This monograph identifies 664 programs that provide comprehensive or integrated services and reports the results of a survey completed by 435 programs. Two-thirds of all such programs are in urban communities; half of all rural programs are school-based. Programs can be grouped into the following models: (1) school-based or school-linked programs (45%); (2) health center-based programs (9%); (3) hospital-based programs (22%); (4) health department-based programs (8%); (5) community-center-based (11%); and (6) other models (5%). Nearly two-thirds require parental consent for the adolescent to receive services, with school-based programs the most likely to require parental consent. In reality, few programs provided comprehensive care such as drug and alcohol treatment or recreation programs. Many more service programs and systematic attempts to provide services are needed if adolescents are to have real access to comprehensive health care. (Contains 5 figures, 20 tables, and 74 references.) (SLD)
The Center for Early Adolescence, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, D-2 Carr Mill Town Center, Carrboro, NC 27510.
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control (DHHS/PHS), Atlanta, GA.; Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD.
Authoring Institution: Center for Early Adolescence, Carrboro, NC.; North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill. Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.; North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill. Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
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