Improving Access to Health Care [microform] : School-Based Health Centers / Shauna L. Dowden, Richard D. Calvert and Lisa Davis
- Bib ID:
- 5613269
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Dowden, Shauna L
- Description:
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- [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1997
- 30 p.
- Summary:
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This article explores an approach for better serving the complete health care needs of children, specifically, the efficacy of school-based health centers (SBHCs) to provide a service delivery mechanism capable of functioning as a medical home for children, providing primary care for both their physical and behavioral health care needs. The article examines the need for SBHCs, presenting supporting data that indicate adolescent access to health care is lacking and that children and adolescents have significant needs to be served due to unhealthy lifestyles, chronic illness, and mental illness. The school-based health center concept as it functions in Connecticut is detailed, including the planning process by which such centers are developed and services are made available. The seven organizational structures utilized in the case study are: (1) hospitals; (2) community health centers; (3) private, not-for-profit boards of directors; (4) human service agencies; (5) boards of education; (6) city health departments; and (7) social service/mental health agencies. Finally, the chapter provides a series of 12 recommendations for the future development of these services within the Healthy People 2010 initiative, addressing financial support, preventive care, types of services offered, interventions, staffing, disciplinary integration, parental involvement, and payment. Contains 24 references. (SD)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: In: Establishing Preventive Services. Healthy Children 2010. Issues in Children's and Families' Lives, Vol. 9; see PS 026 124.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Adolescents
- Child Health
- Childhood Needs
- Children
- Comprehensive School Health Education
- Delivery Systems
- Dental Health
- Early Intervention
- Elementary Secondary Education
- Health Programs
- Health Promotion
- Health Services
- Mental Health
- Mental Health Programs
- Physical Health
- Prevention
- Preventive Medicine
- School Health Services
- Healthy Children 2010 School Based Health Clinics
- Connecticut Healthy People 2000 Preventive Education Service Delivery Assessment Service Quality
- Other authors/contributors:
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- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1997
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