School-based care: clinical challenges and research opportunities.
OBJECTIVE
To explore clinical challenges and research opportunities in one school-based clinic in a faculty practice model of health care delivery CLIENT POPULATION: Ninth-through twelfth-graders at an Eastern urban high school, 80% of the students are from ethnic minorities


CONCLUSIONS
Clinical, administrative, and research challenges need to be addressed on a larger scale through practice-based research networks across the country in order to have an impact on policy


CONCLUSIONS
School-based care required integration of primary care and management of psychosocial and developmental needs. Practice in this setting includes primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention as intervention.
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Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA. pxhle@po.cwru.edu
Bowllan
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Chevalier
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Gullo
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Lawrence
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D000293:Adolescent; D019090:Case Management; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009518:New York; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012572:School Health Services; D012579:Schools, Nursing