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The Adolescent Health Program maintains a comprehensive and holistic view of adolescent's health and well-being. Instead of looking at single behaviors (teen pregnancy, substance use/abuse, violence, delinquency, suicide, depression, unintentional injuries and school failure), the Adolescent Health Program looks at overlap between behaviors, their underlying common causes, and successful interventions. Interventions must be built around researched risk and resiliency factors and maintain a collaborative, multi- disciplinary approach that includes families, schools, churches, communities and agencies that serve teens, as partners in adolescent health.
The Adolescent Health Program provides information on adolescent health through consultation, technical assistance, and educational presentations to agencies (local and state, public and private). The program also responds to inquires concerning adolescent health services from medical professionals, legislators, other agencies and the public. A core service of the program is providing technical assistance/training to health care providers as they assess the needs, develop, implement and evaluate health programs that serve adolescents.
Bright Futures is a national health promotion initiative dedicated to the principle that every child deserves to be healthy and that optimal health involves a trusting relationship between the health professional, the child, the family, and the community as partners in health practice.
The Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has recently written a publication for the general public called Building Healthy Families. It is a project focusing on raising awareness of the long-term health risks associated with obesity in adults and children and to promote lifestyle changes. This project involved collaboration with many partners including Blue Cross and Blue Shield, HEB Stores, Texas Medical Association, Texas Hospital Association and American Heart Association of Texas and of course, DSHS. This publication is being offered for distribution in both English and Spanish.
Keeping your child healthy is a big job! Read all about common childhood aches, pains, and illnesses, plus how to take care of your child's body from teeth to toes.
The Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. The Virtual Hospital digital library contains hundreds of books and brochures for health care providers and patients and makes the Internet a useful tool for medical reference and health promotion.
The Common Sense Encyclopedia gives short, easily understood answers to common questions that come up in everyday pediatric practice - in the office, or on the phone with parents. The definitions and answers are not meant to be definitive, textbook style discussions - it is "news you can use." The explanations are simple, direct and useful.
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