Counties Manukau pushes towards youth-friendly primary care

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Counties Manukau pushes towards youth-friendly primary care

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Monday 13 November 2017, 10:20 AM

Trusting relationships with young patients enhance the ability to identify and appropriately care for health issues early on

Findings and tools developed from a 12-month initiative to use quality improvement methods with the goal of providing youth-friendly primary care, are now available

The purpose was to help primary care providers identify their strengths and weaknesses in youth health By Kate ChiTar and Monique Francois Y

Child Health

References

1. Macleod G, Papa D, Denny S. Young people’s health in Counties Manukau: A profile of aspects of young people’s health in Counties Manukau. Auckland: Counties Manukau Health, 2014.

2. Tylee A, Haller D, Graham T et al. Youth-friendly primary-care services: how are we doing and what more needs to be done? Lancet 2007;369:1565–73.

3. Clark T, Fleming T, Bullen P et al. The health and wellbeing of New Zealand secondary school students in 2012: Youth’12 overview. Auckland: The University of Auckland, 2013.

4. Nair M, Baltag V, Bose K et al. Improving the quality of health care services for adolescents, globally: A standards-driven approach. J Adolesc Health 2015;57(3):288–98.

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