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Affordable Care
School-Based Health Clinics and Adolescents under the Affordable Care Act
School-based health clinics can have many advantages over traditional health care delivery methods. The primary advantage is that school-based health clinics can specialize in the individual needs of the adolescents while a primary care physician may have relatively little expertise in many of the conditions that might affect this demographic group. However, with the school-based clinics, the staff can be well versed in the specific challenges that these adolescents face and provide effective avenues to address these challenges.
Given the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the entire health care environment will be altered. Although adolescents will have increased access to more traditional challenges of health care delivery, there may be a trend in which adolescents are disadvantage in some manner because they will be less exposure to the school-clinics who specialize in many of the age specific challenges that affect these groups.
Affordable Care Act
Typically, a school-based clinic provides a combination of primary care, mental health care, substance abuse counseling, served to increase by nearly 50%, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced (HRSA Press Office, 2011). Strengthening school-based clinics has been shown to be one of the most effective ways to respond to the unique challenges that face adolescents and can offer preventive, comprehensive, mental, and other sensitive care that has previously whereas there have been previous barriers in place (Brindis & Sanghvi, 1997).
Pros and Cons
There are many pros of maintaining strong school-based clinics is that they have unique abilities to combat specific conditions that are present in the demographic such as teenage pregnancy that can often end in poor pregnancy outcomes (Strunk, 2008). It has been shown that school-based…
Works Cited
Brindis, C., & Sanghvi, R. (1997). SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CLINICS: Remaining Viable in a Changing Heatlh System. Annual Review of Public Health, 567-587.
Crosby, R., & Lawrence, J. (2000). Adolescents' Use of School-Based Health Clinics for Reproductive Health Services. The Journal of School Health, 22-28.
HRSA Press Office. (2011, December 8). Affordable Care Act support for school-based health centers will create jobs, increase access to care for thousands of children.
Rickert, V., Davis, S., Riley, A., & Ryan, S. (1997). Rural School-Based Clinics: Are Adolescents Willing to Use Them and What Services Do They Want? The Journal of School Health, 144-149.
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