Question

Pls, answer this question in about 450 well-paragraphed words, with relevant statistics, and in the American context.

Describe the community health strategies for improving the health status of adolescents, young adults, and adults.

Answer 1

Ans) Developing an improved health system for adolescents will require attention to several fundamental goals:

- Placing a greater emphasis on and enhancing the capacity of primary care providers to offer high-quality screening, assessment, health management, referral, and care management of specialty services for this population, especially for behaviorally based health problems.
- Coordinating behavioral, reproductive, mental health, and dental services in practice and community settings.
- Incorporating health promotion, disease prevention, and youth development throughout the health system, in coordination with such services in the community.
- Ensuring consent and confidentiality for adolescents seeking care.
- Strengthening these features of the settings in which health services for adolescents are provided will require explicit attention to the ways in which service environments are structured and the training and clinical experiences of health care providers. It will also require comprehensive integration of electronic health records and electronic tools for communicating with adolescents, and the development of sustained partnerships with sectors such as education, the media, and the entertainment industry that are important parts of the adolescent culture. It will be necessary to introduce new incentives and assessment efforts, derived from population health research, aimed at realigning the health environment, provider services, and information resources, probably in regional centers with varying levels of expertise, to achieve a more explicit focus on accomplishing the national health objectives for adolescents outlined in Healthy People 2010. At the very least, primary care providers who care for large numbers of adolescents will need to organize support for comprehensive screening and monitoring initiatives that are likely to require electronic databases and trained staff.

- These initiatives should build upon the strengths of the existing diversity of health service settings while also attempting to move those settings toward greater coordination and a set of common objectives and screening and assessment methods that can enrich the quality of adolescent health services and ultimately lead to better health outcomes.

- These initiatives should also focus on the context of health services by building upon lessons learned from the delivery of services to marginalized and special subpopulations of adolescents with respect to those operational features and processes that foster adolescents’ engagement with providers.

- Emphasis should be placed on improving the skills and capacity of all health personnel in primary care settings—not solely physicians—to serve the needs of all adolescents.