Surgeon General's Conference: Growing Up and Getting Medical Care: Youth with Special Health Care Needs: A Summary of Conference Proceedings
- Title:
- Surgeon General's Conference: Growing Up and Getting Medical Care: Youth with Special Health Care Needs: A Summary of Conference Proceedings
- Creator:
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Georgetown University. Child Development Center
National Center for Networking Community Based Services (U.S.) - Contributor:
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Millar, Hilary E.C. (Editor)
United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General (Conference)
United States Department of Health and Human Services. Bureau of Maternal and Child Health and Resources Development (Sponsor)
Magrab, Phyllis R. (Editor) - Date:
- March 1989
- Description:
- From the Executive Summary: "This agenda includes the issue of young people moving from pediatric services to adult health care. This period of transition can be an anxiety provoking time for adolescents, their families, and for those who work on their behalf, and further efforts must be made to bridge this potential gap in services." In his Introductory Remarks, Dr. C. Everett Koop spoke out forcefully on this issue: "For the rest of this century, everything we discuss in reference to medicine, health care delivery or policy will merely be symptomatic of the overarching tension between our aspirations for health care and our resources to pay for them. The two populations at greatest risk of medical neglect are the elderly and children. We will have to fight harder than ever for the funds to care for special needs children and young people. It is unlikely that any administration or any Congress will address this issue on the clear merits of the situation--in spite of the nation's affluence and prosperity. But the day will come when the business community will exert much greater pressure than at present for a more realistic method of funding health care. We must be prepared for that day so our special needs children are not shortchanged as the health care delivery system is rebuilt."
- Publisher:
- United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Genre:
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Official reports
Conferences
Proceedings - Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 54 pages
- Relation:
- Surgeon General's Conference: Growing Up and Getting Medical Care: Youth with Special Health Care Needs: A Summary of Conference Proceedings (Cover through Table of Contents), 1989 Surgeon General's Conference: Growing Up and Getting Medical Care: Youth with Special Health Care Needs: A Summary of Conference Proceedings (pages 1-25), 1989 Surgeon General's Conference: Growing Up and Getting Medical Care: Youth with Special Health Care Needs: A Summary of Conference Proceedings (pages 26-47; participant list), 1989 Remarks Presented to the Surgeon General's Conference on Transition of Handicapped Children to Adult Care, Jekyll Island, Georgia, 1989
- Language:
- English
- Legacy ID:
- NNBCZS
- NLM ID:
- 101584932X870
- Profiles Collection:
- Reports of the Surgeon General
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584932X870