International developments in adolescent health care: a story of advocacy and achievement

Bennett, David; Tonkin, Roger S.

doi:10.1016/s1054-139x(03)00203-9

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“…The sensitisation and training of all professionals involved in the curative and preventive care of adolescents is a crucial factor for the improvement of adolescent health care delivery. Despite the presence of considerable evidence showing that the training needs of health care providers on adolescent medicine were not fulfilled both from the health professional and the user perspectives in different countries [5, 12, 14, 15, 17-22, 24-26, 32], outside the USA, there has been a rather limited systematic approach to training on adolescent medicine until recently [3,12,15,23,28,32]. In Europe, the European Training in Effective Adolescent Care and Health programme (EuTEACH; home page at: http://www.euteach.com/) focussed on designing a curriculum that could be used in the training of physicians at both primary and specialty levels to improve adolescent health and well-being in the enlarged European community with a collaborative approach [28].…”

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Demography of adolescent health care delivery and training in Europe

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“…From a developmental viewpoint, adolescence is seen as the transition from childhood to adult life and it implies important biological, psychological, and social changes that should be taken into account when providing health services to these patients (Bennet & Tonkin, 2003;Hidalgo, González, & Montón, 2006). The scientific advances of medicine and the social changes of the past decades have increased our awareness of the need to protect and promote the health of adolescents, considered a specific population group, that is, with particular health characteristics and needs (Alderman, Rieder, & Cohen, 2003).…”

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Perspectives of Youths and Adults Improve the Care of Hospitalized Adolescents in Spain

Ullán¹,

Belver²,

Serrano³

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Journal of Pediatric Health Care

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Abstract:Purpose: To determine and compare the preferences and priorities of youths and adults about the best ways to improve hospitals that would have an impact on the quality of life of hospitalized adolescents.Method: Participants in this study were 364 adolescents between 14 and 17 years of age (96 hospitalized) and 148 adults (96 parents of patients and 52 health professionals). All the participants completed a questionnaire about their preferences and priorities with regard to hospitalization.Results: A high degree of agreement among the youths and the adults was observed, especially in the importance assigned to agreeableness of clinical staff to improve adolescents' experience of hospitalization. Some discrepancies were also observed. The youths granted more importance to issues related to filling in time, specifically to the leisure technology available for patients. The adults assigned more importance to the organization of the hospital stay, in particular, for adolescents to be admitted with patients of the same age and for them to receive academic support in the hospital.Conclusions: Adolescents express a coherent perspective about the aspects that may help them to feel better in the hospital, in some ways different from the perspective of the adults who care for them.

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“…About 30% of India's population is in the, WHO defined, adolescent age group of 10-19 years [1] and yet, India has been slow to embrace the concept of adolescent health when compared with many other countries [2].…”

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Adolescent Health Care in India: Progressive, Regressive or at the Cross-Roads?

Nair¹,

Russell

2011

Indian J Pediatr

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India has a sizeable adolescent population. Adolescents constitute a vulnerable population for both mental and physical illnesses, and yet their health-care needs and delivery systems are neither well defined nor developed. Many of the mental, reproductive and nutritional health needs of this population are required to be addressed and can be addressed in the primary-care pediatric setting itself if the current system of health-care can be re-organized. This restructuring will be more effective for this population if adolescent friendly approaches, public-private partnership and policy as well as sectoral linkage between the NRHM and other national programs are achieved. The health program for this age group should have promotive and preventive as well as remedial and curative components. Also, improving the availability of trained personnel in these areas of health, culturally sensitive evidence based approaches and capacity building in the primary-care approach is essential to ensure the viability of adolescent health-care in this country.

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International developments in adolescent health care: a story of advocacy and achievement

Cited by 21 publications

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Demography of adolescent health care delivery and training in Europe

Demography of adolescent health care delivery and training in Europe

Perspectives of Youths and Adults Improve the Care of Hospitalized Adolescents in Spain

Adolescent Health Care in India: Progressive, Regressive or at the Cross-Roads?

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