Historique
Rapport
Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS)
Année
1997
Page(s) :
12 p.
Sous-type de document :
Guide pratique / Manual
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Éditeur(s) :
Chicago, IL : American Medical Association
ISBN :
978-0-89970-929-X
Domaine :
Alcool / Alcohol ; Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Résumé :
The AMA's Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS) is a comprehensive set of recommendations that provides a framework for the organization and content of preventive health services. The GAPS recommendations were designed to be delivered ideally as a preventive services package during a a series of annual health visits between the ages of 11-21.
The GAPS Recommendations Monograph provides information on the 24 recommendations which are organized into four types of services that address 14 separate health topics or conditions.
The topics or health conditions addressed by GAPS are:
• promoting parents' ability to respond to the health needs of their adolescents;
• promoting adjustment to puberty and adolescence;
• promoting safety and injury prevention;
• promoting physical fitness;
• promoting healthy dietary habits and preventing eating disorders and obesity;
• promoting healthy psychosexual adjustment and preventing the negative health consequences of sexual behaviors;
• preventing hypertension;
• preventing hyperlipidemia;
• preventing the use of tobacco products;
• preventing the use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs;
• preventing severe or recurrent depression and suicide;
• preventing physical, sexual, and emotional abuse;
• preventing learning problems;
• preventing infectious diseases.
The GAPS Recommendations Monograph provides information on the 24 recommendations which are organized into four types of services that address 14 separate health topics or conditions.
The topics or health conditions addressed by GAPS are:
• promoting parents' ability to respond to the health needs of their adolescents;
• promoting adjustment to puberty and adolescence;
• promoting safety and injury prevention;
• promoting physical fitness;
• promoting healthy dietary habits and preventing eating disorders and obesity;
• promoting healthy psychosexual adjustment and preventing the negative health consequences of sexual behaviors;
• preventing hypertension;
• preventing hyperlipidemia;
• preventing the use of tobacco products;
• preventing the use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs;
• preventing severe or recurrent depression and suicide;
• preventing physical, sexual, and emotional abuse;
• preventing learning problems;
• preventing infectious diseases.
Affiliation :
Chicago, Illinois, USA