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Charles E. Irwin, Jr, MD; Mary-Ann Shafer, MD

JAMA. 1992;268(3):333-335.

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As we proceed through the 1990s, developments at the national level that began in the 1980s are now coming to fruition. Private foundations, the federal government, professional medical organizations, and medical certifying boards have played major roles in bringing the issues regarding adolescence to the national agenda.

In the arena of private foundations, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ, supported the development of community programs to provide health services to high-risk youth in community-based clinics linked to university medical centers and through school-based clinics. School-based clinics have now emerged as one community model that increases access to primary health care services for adolescents. The William T. Grant Foundation Commission on Work, Family and Citizenship, New York, NY, brought our attention to the problems of young adults and the social and economic plight of young families.¹ The Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, established in 1987 by the Carnegie Corporation . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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University of California, San Francisco

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