Counties Manukau pushes towards youth-friendly primary care

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Counties Manukau pushes towards youth-friendly primary care

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Kate ChiTar and Monique Francois
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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 Youth health issues have increased in co
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.

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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.