Health Reform and Adolescents

Achieving meaningful health reform for adolescents will require coverage expansions under Medicaid and CHIP, appropriately designed benefits, delivery system and payment improvements, and training supports.

Structuring Health Care Reform to Work for Adolescents

Health system reform presents an important opportunity for preventing and better managing physical, behavioral, and reproductive health conditions that are common in adolescence and can have lifelong consequences.

Pediatric Perspectives and Practices on Transitioning Adolescents with Special Needs to Adult Health Care

Few pediatric practices are offering the needed support services to enable adolescents with special needs to effectively transition to adult health care.

Adolescent Medicine at the Crossroads: A Review of Fellowship Training and Recommendations for Reform

The field of adolescent medicine faces a number of pressing challenges primarily related to the supply and recruitment of fellows, program structure and content, and financial support, and requires a combination of strategies to reinvigorate the field.

State Policies Affecting the Assurance of Confidential Care for Adolescents

State Medicaid policies can often impede confidential access to care for adolescents, even where minors are given the right to consent for services.

Advancing Medical Education Training in Adolescent Health

A new commentary in the May issue of Pediatrics reveals strong interest among adolescent medicine fellowship directors, pediatric residency directors, and adolescent medicine faculty in four different options for giving pediatricians additional training in adolescent medicine.