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Author Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults (Workshop) (2013 : Washington, D.C.), issuing body.

Title Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults : workshop summary / Clare Stroud, Tara Mainero, and Steve Olson, rapporteurs ; Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies
Published Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (201 pages) : color illustrations
Series Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf
Contents FrontMatter -- Reviewers -- Contents -- Part I: Introduction, Development, and Context -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Neurobiological, Psychological, and Social Development -- 3 The Economic, Cultural, and Social Landscape -- Part II: Health and Safety of Young Adults -- 4 Safety- and Health-Related Behaviors -- 5 Physical Health -- 6 Mental Health -- Part III: The Systems and Institutions That Affect Young Adults -- 7 Families, Social Networks, and the Media -- 8 Health Care -- 9 Education and Employment -- 10 The Military
11 Foster Care, Welfare Services, and Services for Homeless Young Adults12 The Justice System -- Part IV: Themes and Future Research -- 13 Themes of the Workshop -- 14 Future Research and Other Opportunities -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: References -- Appendix B: Agenda -- Appendix C: Registered Workshop Attendees -- Appendix D: Background Paper: Pathways to Young Adulthood and Preventive Interventions Targeting Young Adults -- Sabrina Oesterle
""Appendix E: Background Paper: Parenting During the Transitions to Adulthood -- Katherine Jewsbury Conger, Rand D. Conger, Stephen T. Russell, and Nicole Hollis""
Summary "Young adults are at a significant and pivotal time of life. They may seek higher education, launch their work lives, develop personal relationships and healthy habits, and pursue other endeavors that help set them on healthy and productive pathways. However, the transition to adulthood also can be a time of increased vulnerability and risk. Young adults may be unemployed and homeless, lack access to health care, suffer from mental health issues or other chronic health conditions, or engage in binge drinking, illicit drug use, or driving under the influence. Young adults are moving out of the services and systems that supported them as children and adolescents, but adult services and systems--for example, the adult health care system, the labor market, and the justice system--may not be well suited to supporting their needs. Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults is the summary of a workshop hosted by the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) in May, 2013. More than 250 researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and young adults presented and discussed research on the development, health, safety, and well-being of young adults. This report focuses on the developmental characteristics and attributes of this age group and its placement in the life course; how well young adults function across relevant sectors, including, for example, health and mental health, education, labor, justice, military, and foster care; and how the various sectors that intersect with young adults influence their health and well-being. Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults provides an overview of existing research and identifies research gaps and issues that deserve more intensive study. It also is meant to start a conversation aimed at a larger IOM/NRC effort to guide research, practices, and policies affecting young adults"--Publisher's description
Notes "A Workshop on Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults, May 7 and 8, 2013, National Academy of Sciences Building"--Agenda
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Young adults -- United States -- Congresses
Health behavior -- United States -- Congresses
Health attitudes -- United States -- Congresses
Young adults -- United States -- Economic conditions -- Congresses
Young adults -- United States -- Social conditions -- Congresses
Young adults.
Health behavior.
Health attitudes.
Personality development.
Mental health.
Young Adult
Health Behavior
Attitude to Health
Socioeconomic Factors
Personality Development
Risk Factors
Mental Health
Public Policy
mental health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Personality development
Mental health
Health attitudes
Health behavior
Young adults
Young adults -- Economic conditions
Young adults -- Social conditions
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Stroud, Clare, author
Mainero, Tara, author
Olson, Steve, 1956- author
National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Children and Families, issuing body.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.), issuing body.
ISBN 9780309285636
0309285631