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Download full textOoms, Theodora; Herendeen, Lisa – 1990
This report presents highlights of a seminar which focused on the unique health care needs of adolescents. Comments by the following panelists are summarized: Christine Winquist Nord, research associate at Child Trends Inc.; John Sargent, an adolescent psychiatrist, pediatrician and family therapist at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic; and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Health, Drug Abuse, Federal Programs
National Commission To Prevent Infant Mortality, Washington, DC. – 1988
A child born in Japan, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Australia, Canada, Singapore, or any of 12 other industrialized nations has a better chance of surviving his or her first year than does a child born in the United States. This is because too many babies are born too small, too many are born too soon, and too many mothers never get decent care…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Birth Weight, Community Programs, Employed Parents
