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- Title
The Pediatrician's Role in Providing Health Care for Adolescent Parents.
- Authors
Wilcox, Wallace D.; Sherman, Margaret A.; Swaby-#Ellis, E. Dawn
- Abstract
The article discusses the Pediatrician's role in providing health care for adolescent parents. Provision of health care for adolescents is a basic tenet of the practice of pediatrics, advocated and supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Board of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. A major obstacle to concurrence among pediatricians regarding a uniform policy for adolescent health care is one of semantics: what are the chronologic parameters of adolescence, particularly the maximum age, and what is the appropriate scope of wellness and illness care to be provided adolescents by pediatricians. Researchers cite the need for a major retraining effort to implement such a plan nationwide. It seems that the initial need is more for philosophic restructuring than for retraining. As pediatricians, they must acknowledge and develop the role they play in shaping future generations through the involvement in the health care of the adolescent and young adult patients, including those with children.
- Subjects
TEENAGE parents; PEDIATRICS; MEDICAL education; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; PEDIATRICIANS; AGE groups; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Clinical Pediatrics, 1990, Vol 29, Issue 6, p329
- ISSN
0009-9228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/000992289002900607