title: What it will take: placing adolescents on the American National Agenda for the 1990s.
abstract: At the core of our efforts to develop an adolescent health agenda and to implement the goals we have discussed today is the necessity of increasing the public visibility and greater acceptability of adolescents in the greater society. Investment in this next generation should be recognized not only as valuable in itself, but in terms of its impact on future generations of children and adolescents, who themselves will become the parents of tomorrow. While those concerned with adolescents have created a number of important bridges that link disciplines, professional organizations, and communities, the focus of our efforts must also be to widen the base of this coalition to include the active involvement of the business sector and other age groups, such as the elderly. This will clearly require a variety of strategies. These efforts will be stronger if they are concurrent and mutually reinforcing, and are viewed as the constituent parts to a greater vision for the well-being of our youth.
authors.affiliation: Center for Reproductive Health Policy Research, University of California, San Francisco 94109.
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Brindis
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000639:trends*; D002648:Child; D003254:Consumer Advocacy; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014481:United States