The Bureau of Family Health is committed to focusing their efforts on adolescent health by raising awareness with our internal and external partners. Through infrastructure building we will have the ability to address adolescent health issues both at the local and state levels.
Health Data
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Iowa Youth Health Assessment Program. Includes the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Iowa Youth Survey, and School Health Profiles
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Iowa Public Health Tracking Portal .The Iowa Public Health Tracking Portal serves as a centralized source for public health data.
The National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) touches on multiple, intersecting aspects of children’s lives. The survey includes physical and mental health status, access to quality health care, as well as information on the child’s family, neighborhood and social context.
Developmental Tasks
- Adopt a personal value system
- Adjust to new physical sense of self (including body image)
- Adjust to a sexually maturing body and feelings
- Define a personal sense of identity
- Develop stable and productive peer relationships
- Develop and apply abstract thinking skills
- Meet demands of increasingly mature roles and responsibilities
- Renegotiate relationship with parents/caregivers
Adolescent Well-Visit Communication Materials
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5 Things Parents Need to Know About the Adolescent Well-Visit is aimed to educating parents about the well-visit and why it is important for adolescents to receive a well-visit.
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5 Things Teens Need to Know About the Adolescent Well-Visit is to allow the adolescent to get a brief understanding of the adolescent well-visit.
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Be in Charge of Your Health educates parents and adolescents the importance of adolescents taking control of their health.
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Understanding the Roles helps educate everyone that is involved with the well visit and know what they are responsible for.