title: More than heights and weights: what parents of urban adolescents want from health care providers.
abstract: To examine health care providers' expected role in health promotion counseling to urban adolescents from the perspective of parents. Although participating parents wanted health care providers to counsel their adolescents on sensitive health issues, their desires and expectations were rarely met.
authors.affiliation: Harlem Health Promotion Center, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA. atc1@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Alwyn T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Cohall
authors.forename: Renee
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cohall
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Ellis
authors.forename: Roger D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Vaughan
authors.forename: Mary E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Northridge
authors.forename: Goldie
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Watkins-Bryant
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Butcher
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services; D000328:Adult; D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009519:New York City; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*