| Description |
xxviii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Child, youth, and family services |
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Child, youth, and family services.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Poverty and adolescent health / LaRue Allen and Christina M. Mitchell -- Health and related services available to Black adolescents / Dalmas A. Taylor and Phyllis A. Katz -- The health of Latino youth: challenges for disease prevention / Hortensia Amaro, Miriam Messinger, and Richard Cervantes -- American Indian adolescent health / Candace M. Fleming, Spero M. Manson, and Lois Bergeisen -- Health issues of Asian Pacific American adolescents / Nolan Zane and Stanley Sue -- Health and related services for native Hawaiian adolescents / Lawrence Miike -- The federal government's role in improving the health of poor and ethnic-minority adolescents / Denise Dougherty and Kerry B. Kemp -- Policy recommendations for ethnic-minority adolescent health issues: a paradigm shift / Nancy Lois Ruth Anderson and Marjorie Kagawa-Singer. |
| Summary |
"Adolescents are an underserved group in terms of health care. Poor and minority youth are particularly shortchanged in our current system. In view of the high incidence of many medical and psychological syndromes associated with poverty and discrimination, this situation is paradoxical."--BOOK JACKET. "This book examines both common and unique health issues associated with a number of different groups - African-American, Latino, Native American, Asian-American, and Hawaiian - and explores the role of traditional and nontraditional treatments for each. The chapters represent a compendium of the most up-to-date studies summarized by leading researchers and include specific recommendations for improving health care services, which will prove valuable to providers and those concerned with public policy. The authors conclude that unless greater attention and resources are devoted to these youth, the consequences will continue to be dire, both for the groups involved and for society as a whole."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Minority teenagers -- Medical care -- United States.
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Minority teenagers -- Health and hygiene -- United States.
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Adolescent Health Services -- United States.
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Minority Groups -- United States.
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Ethnicity -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Kagawa-Singer, Marjorie, 1947-
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| ISBN |
0803227329 (cloth: alkaline paper) |
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9780803227323 (cloth: alkaline paper) |
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