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.
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.
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.
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.
Please be sure to visit our Sister Site, NAHIC. Resources on the site include a Brief highlighting priority health issues for adolescent & young adult males and many more publications.
We are pleased to announce our partnership with Child Trends. Together we will conduct research, create resources and offer assistance to improve the health of young people and their families.
