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Policy Center Goals

The goal of the Policy Center is to identify and analyze the effects of public policies on the health and well-being of young people and their families. This is achieved through the objectives:

  • ♦  To examine the relationship between the health status of young people and service delivery systems, and
  • ♦  To examine the environmental determinants of health and development.

What's New

Innovations in Preventive Mental Health Care Services for Adolescents (2008)

This descriptive study examined programs designed to provide mental health-related preventive services to at-risk adolescents.

Posted on 03/20 at 09:44 AM

Health Insurance Across Vulnerable Ages (2007)

This article presents an analysis of patterns of health insurance, both public and privately funded, among young people from early adolescence through their early 30s. 

Posted on 06/26 at 01:09 PM

The Health Status of Young Adults in the U.S. (2006)

This article synthesizes national data to present a health profile of young adults, reviewing social indicators that describe the context of young adulthood and presenting measures of health status.

Posted on 08/21 at 12:15 PM

What's Featured This Month

The Health of America's Middle Childhood Population

This monograph describes the environment in which children live and presents diverse measures of wellbeing, as well as traditional measures of health.

Posted on 07/12 at 01:37 PM
Girls & Boys in Black and Red

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