Health Care Transition Building a Program for Adolescents and Young
This comprehensive book thoroughly addresses all aspects of health care transition of adolescents and young adults with chronic illness or disability; and includes the framework, tools and case-based examples needed to develop and evaluate a Health Care T
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Health Care Transition Building a Program for Adolescents and Young Adults with Chronic Illness and Disability
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Health Care Transition
Albert C. Hergenroeder Constance M. Wiemann Editors
Health Care Transition Building a Program for Adolescents and Young Adults with Chronic Illness and Disability
Editors Albert C. Hergenroeder Associate Professor, Director of Research Section of Adolescent Medicine and Sports Medicine Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine Texas Children’s Hospital Houston, TX, USA
Constance M. Wiemann Professor, Chief of Adolescent Medicine Section of Adolescent Medicine and Sports Medicine Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine Texas Children’s Hospital Houston, TX, USA
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Preface
Depending on the criteria used, the prevalence of chronic disease in 6–21-year-olds in the USA is 6–30%, affecting one in five families. A generation ago, many of these patients did not survive beyond childhood. Due to advances in medical treatments, 90% of individuals with chronic illness and disability survive childhood, and 750,000 young adults with special health- care needs in the USA transition to adulthood annually. Children with special health-care needs are defined as those who have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and who also require health and related services of a type
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