Improving Access to Health Care: School-Based Health Centers.

Autor/inn/en	Dowden, Shauna L.; Calvert, Richard D.; Davis, Lisa; Gullotta, Thomas P.
Titel	Improving Access to Health Care: School-Based Health Centers.
Quelle	(1997), (30 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	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; Connecticut + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Childhood; needs; Kindheit; Bedürfnis; Child; Kind; Kinder; Auslieferung; Zahnärztliche Versorgung; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Psychohygiene; Gesundheitszustand; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Gesundheitsvorsorge; Schuleingangsuntersuchung
Abstract	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)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC