Changing Health Care Environments and Adolescent Health Care: Legal and Policy Challenges.
The changes in the health care system and shifts toward managed care affect adolescents like all other age groups. This chapter deals with the key issues that concern adolescent health care providers while creating the health care models of the future. Questions such as adequate health insurance for adolescents, health care delivery to uninsured and underinsured adolescents, and protection of confidentiality all need to be addressed for adolescents to receive the health care they need.
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Director, Adolescent Health Care Project, National Center for Youth Law, 211 North Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA.