Unmet Health Care Need in US Adolescents and Adult Health Outcomes

• Published in: Pediatrics (Evanston) Vol. 136; no. 3; p. 513
• Main Authors: Hargreaves, Dougal S, Elliott, Marc N, Viner, Russell M, Richmond, Tracy K, Schuster, Mark A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.09.2015
• Subjects: Absenteeism; Adolescent; Adolescent Health Services; Adult; Depression - epidemiology; Health Services Needs and Demand; Health Status; Humans; Insurance Coverage; Longitudinal Studies; Prevalence; Socioeconomic Factors; Suicidal Ideation; United States - epidemiology; Young Adult; United States

Adolescence is a formative period when health care services have a unique opportunity to influence later health outcomes. Unmet health care need in adolescence is known to be associated with poor contemporaneous health outcomes; it is unknown whether it predicts poor adult health outcomes. We used n...