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Surgeon General's Conference: Growing Up and Getting Medical Care: Youth with Special Health Care Needs: A Summary of Conference Proceedings pdf (4,694,829 Bytes) ocr (162,788 Bytes)
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."
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Date:
1989-03 (March 1989)
Creator:
National Center for Networking Community Based Services
Georgetown University Child Development Center
Contributor:
Editor: Magrab, Phyllis R.
Editor: Millar, Hilary E.C.
Sponsor: United States Department of Health and Human Services. Bureau of Maternal and Child Health and Resources Development
Conference: United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General (13-15 March 1989, Jekyll Island, Georgia)
Publisher:
United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General
Rights:
This item is in the public domain. It may be used without permission.
Relation:
Metadata Record "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) (March 1989)
Metadata Record "Surgeon General's Conference: Growing Up and Getting Medical Care: Youth with Special Health Care Needs: A Summary of Conference Proceedings" (pages 1-25) (March 1989)
Metadata Record "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) (March 1989)
Metadata Record Remarks Presented to the Surgeon General's Conference on Transition of Handicapped Children to Adult Care, Jekyll Island, Georgia (March 14, 1989) (in The C. Everett Koop Papers)
Unique Identifier:
NNBCZS
Document Type:
Conferences
Official reports
Proceedings
Language:
English
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application/pdf
image/tif
Physical Condition:
Good
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2004-02-10

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