Strategic Plan | References

CA Strategic Plan

Recommendations

Public Support

Youth Involvement
& Development

Access to Care

Service Coordination

Families

Communities

Schools

Data

Outcome Areas

Injury Prevention

Mental Health and Suicide

Nutrition & Physical Activity

Alcohol, Tobacco
& Other Drugs

Teen Pregnancy & STI’s

Oral Health

Environmental
& Occupational Health

Out of Home Youth –
Resources on Mental Health

Publications | Strategic Plan | References

References

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28. Health Initiatives for Youth. (1997). GLBTQ Youth Health Initiative. San Francisco, CA: Author.

29. Children Now. (1998). A Decade of Political and Economic Change Shapes Children’s Lives: Report Card. Oakland, CA: Author.

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36. Olson, K., Perkins, J., & Pate, T. (1998, August). Children’s Health Under Medicaid: A National Review of Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment. Los Angeles, CA: National Health Law Program.

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38. Schauffler, H. H., and Brown, E. R. (2000, January). The State of Health Insurance in California: 1999. Berkeley, CA: Regents of the University of California.

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40. Medi-Cal Policy Institute. (1999, January). Medi-Cal and Dental Health Services Fact Sheet. Retrieved November 23, 1999 from the World Wide Web: http://www.medi-cal.org/publications.

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43. Ozer, E. M., Brindis, C., Millstein, S., Knopf, D., & Irwin, C. E., Jr. (1997). America’s Adolescents: Are They Healthy? San Francisco, CA: University of California, San Francisco, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, National Adolescent Health Information Center.

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47. Klein, J. D., Slap, G. B., Elster, A. B., & Schonberg, S. K. (1992). Access to health care for adolescents: A position paper of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. Journal of Adolescent Health, 13, 162-170.

48. Soler, M. & Shauffer, C. (1993). Fighting fragmentation: Coordination of services for children and families. Education and Urban Society, 25(2), 129-140.

49. Melaville, A. I. (1991). What it Takes: Structuring Interagency Partnerships to Connect Children and Families with Comprehensive Services. Washington, DC: Education and Human Services Consortium.

50. The Urban Institute. (1996-1997). National Survey of America’s Families. Washington, DC: Author.

51. Sherman, A. (1998, July). Poverty Matters: The Cost of Child Poverty in America. Children’s Defense Fund. Retrieved September 9, 1999 from the World Wide Web: http://www.childrensdefense.org

52. Coiro, M. J., Zill, N., & Bloom, B. (1994). Health of our nation’s children. Vital and Health Statistics, 10(191).

53. Lowry, R., Kann, L., Collins, J. L., & Kolbe, L. J. (1996). The effect of socioeconomic status on chronic disease risk behaviors among U.S. adolescents. Journal of the American Medical Association, 276(10), 792-7.

54. National Center for Health Statistics. (1998). Socioeconomic Status and Health Chartbook. (DHHS Publication No. (PHS) HE 20.7042/6:YR./CHARTBK). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

55. Blum, R. W., & Rinehart, P. M. (1997). Reducing the Risk: Connections that Make a Difference in the Lives of Youth. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health.

56. Brindis, C. (1999). Community Challenge Grant Program: Preliminary Assessment. Sacramento, CA: Office of Community Challenge Grants, California Department of Health Services.

57. Leffert, N., Benson, P., Scales, P., Sharma, A., Drake, D., & Blyth, D. (1998). Developmental assets: Measurement and prediction of risk behaviors among adolescents. Applied Developmental Science, 2(4), 209-230.

58. Annie E. Casey Foundation. (2000). 2000 Kids Count Data Book. Baltimore, MD: Author.

59. Brindis, C. (1998, May). Adolescent Transitions: Risk-taking and Health. Sacramento, CA: California Center for Health Improvement.

60. National Research Council, Institute of Medicine. (1998). Protecting Youth at Work: Health, Safety, and Development of Working Children and Adolescents in the United States. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

61. ReSource for Youth. Today’s Fact Archives: Violence and Crime Fact #6 (1997). Retrieved June 15, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.preventviolence.org

62. National Youth Development Information Center. Positions for Youth: Public Policy Statements of the National Collaboration for Youth: After-school and Summer Programs. Retrieved March 18, 1999 from the World Wide Web: http://www.nydic.org/aftersum.html

63. California Center for Civic Participation and Youth Development. (1999). Statewide youth survey results: What do California’s youth think about their communities and related public policy? Unpublished manuscript available from author at 1220 H Street, Suite #102, Sacramento, CA, 95814.

64. Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice. (1999, January). Victim Characteristics. Retrieved January 25, 1999 from the World Wide Web: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvict_v.htm

65. Ellis, A. (1997, October). Injury among California’s children and adolescents: Who’s at risk? Epic Proportions, Report No. 9. (Government Document No: H924.E64 no.9 cadocs). Sacramento, CA: Emergency Preparedness and Injury Control Branch, California Department of Health Services.

66. Coordinated School Health Workgroup of the School Health Connections Offices, California Department of Education & California Department of Health Services. (2000). Building Infrastructure for Coordinated School Health: California’s Blueprint. Sacramento, CA: California Department of Education.

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68. United States Office of Educational Research and Improvement. (1998). Annual Report on School Safety. (Government Document No: ED 1.310/2:428464). Washington, DC: United States Department of Education. Available on the World Wide Web at http://www.ed.gov/pubs/ AnnSchoolRept98/

69. Field Institute. (1999). Poll conducted for The California Wellness Foundation.

70. The Governor’s School-to-Career Task Force. (1999, January). The California School-to-Career State Plan. Retrieved July 7, 1999 from the World Wide Web: http://www.stc.cahwnet.gov

71. Wallack, L., Woodruff, K., Dorfman, L., & Diaz, I. (1999). News for a Change: An Advocates Guide to Working with Media. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

72. California Death Records. (1998). Available from the Office of Vital Records, Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, CA.

73. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (1999). Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Atlanta, GA: Author.

74. California Highway Patrol. (1998). 1998 Annual Report of Fatal and Injury Motor Vehicle Traffic Collisions (Motor Vehicle Collision Data, Tables 5H and 5I). Fresno, CA: Author.

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76. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (1998). State injury mortality data. Retrieved November 1, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc

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80. California Bureau of Criminal Statistics. (1998). Homicide in California, 1998. Sacramento, CA: Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General.

81. Prothrow-Stith, D., & Spivak, H. R. (1992). Violence. In E. R. McAnarney, R. E. Kreipe, D. P. Orr, & G. D. Comerci (Eds.), Textbook of Adolescent Medicine (pp. 1113-1118). Philadelphia, PA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch.

82. Adams, P. F., Schoenborn, C. A., & Moss, A. J. (1994). High Risk Behaviors Among Our Nation’s Youth: United States, 1992. (DHHS Publication No. 95-1520) Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics.

83. Mediascope Press. (1997). National Television Violence Study: Content Analysis of Violence in Television Programming, 1994-1995. Retrieved May 30,2000 from the World Wide Web: http://mediascope.org/pubs/ibrief/ntvs.htm

84. National Institute of Mental Health. Depression Research Fact Sheet. Retrieved October 19, 1999 from the World Wide Web: http://www.nimh.nih.gov

85. Center for Mental Health Services. Retrieved October 17, 1999 from the World Wide Web: http://www.mentalhealth.org

86. U.S. Public Health Service. (1999). The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Suicide (DHHS Government Document No. HE 20.2:SU 7/3). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

87. Children’s Defense Fund. (1998). Meeting Children’s Unique Mental Health Needs. Retrieved January, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.childrensdefense.org/ health_mentalhealth.html

88. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. (1994). Conditions of Confinement: Juvenile Detention and Correction Facilities. Washington, DC: Author.

89. California Department of Mental Health. (2000, August). Statistics and data analysis: Local mental health programs unduplicated number of clients by county and age group, 1995-1998. Unpublished data available from the California Department of Mental Health, Sacramento, CA.

90. National Institute for Mental Health. (1999, December). Suicide Facts. Retrieved January, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/research/suifact.htm

91. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Suicide Prevention Fact Sheet. Retrieved March 15, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/suifacts.htm.

92. McGinnis, J. M., & Foege, W. H. (1993). Actual causes of death in the United States. Journal of American Medical Association, 270(18), 2207-2212.

93. Trent, M. E. & Ludwig, D. S. (1999). Adolescent obesity, a need for greater awareness and improved treatment. Current Opinion in Pediatrics,11(4), 297-302.

94. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Life Sciences Research Office. (1995). Third Report on Nutrition Monitoring in the United States. (Government Document No. A 77.2:N 95/2/V.1-2). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

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99. Foerster, S. B., Fierro, M. P., Gregson, J., Hudes, M., Oppen, M., and Sugerman, S. (2000). 1998 California Teen Eating, Exercise, and Nutrition Survey. Berkeley, CA: Public Health Institute.

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101. Public Health Institute and California Project LEAN. (2000, February). California High School Fast Food Survey, Findings and Recommendations. Sacramento, CA: California Project LEAN.

102. Craypo, L., & Samuels, S. (1998, August). Creating an Adolescent Nutrition and Physical Activity Policy Agenda: A Report on a Public Policy Needs Assessment. Sacramento, CA: California Project LEAN.

103. Aarons, G. A., Brown, S. A., Coe, M. T., Myers, M. G., Garland, A. F., Ezzet-Lofstram, R., Hazen, A. L., & Hough, R. L. (1999). Adolescent alcohol and drug abuse and health. Journal of Adolescent Health, 24, 412-421.

104. National Institute on Drug Abuse & the Institute for Social Research of Michigan. (1999). The Monitoring the Future Study.

105. Mediascope. (1999, April 29). Substance Use in Popular Movies and Music. Retrieved from the World Wide Web: http://www.mediacampaign.org/publications/movies/movie_partI.html

106. Brown, S. S., & Eisenberg, L. (Eds.). (1995). The Best Intentions: Unintended Pregnancy and the Well-being of Children and Families. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

107. Hardy, J. B., Shapiro, S., Astone, N. M., Miller, T. L., Brooks-Gunn, J., & Hilton, S. C. (1997). Adolescent childbearing revisited: The age of inner-city mothers at delivery is a determinant of their children’s self-sufficiency at age 27 to 33. Pediatrics, 100(5), 802-9.

108. Marini, M. (1984). Women’s educational attainment and the timing of entry into parenthood. American Sociological Review, 49, 491-51.

109. Teti, D. M., & Lamb, M. E. (1989). Socioeconomic and marital outcomes of adolescent marriage, adolescent childbirth and their co-occurrence. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 51, 203-212.

110. Irwin, C. E., Jr., & Schafer, M. A. (1992). Adolescent sexuality: Negative outcomes of a normative behavior. In D. E. Rogers & E. Ginzberg (Eds.), Adolescents at Risk: Medical and Social Perspectives. (pp.35-79). Boulder, CO: Westview Press

111. California Department of Health Services. (1996). Atlas of Births to California Teenagers - 1996. Retrieved May 18, 1999 from the World Wide Web: http://www.dhs.ca.gov/prp/mchb/ atlas/index.htm

112. Darroch, J.E. & Singh, S. (1999) Why is Teenage Pregnancy Declining? The Roles of Abstinence, Sexual Activity and Contraceptive Use. New York, NY: The Alan Guttmacher Institute.

113. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (1998). Trends in sexual risk behaviors among high school students. United States, 1991-1997. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 47, 749-52.

114. 1999 STD Prevalence data. Available from the STD Control Branch, California Department of Health Services.

115. San Francisco AIDS Foundation. (2000, July 8). AIDS Cases by Race/Ethnicity: United States, California, and San Francisco, 1981-present. Retrieved July 28, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.sfaf.org/aboutaids/statistics/age.html

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117. Watahara, A., and Murphy, L.O. (1997). The Oral Health of California’s Children: A Neglected Epidemic. Selected Findings and Recommendations from the California Oral Health Needs Assessment of Children, 1993-94. Oakland, CA: The Dental Health Foundation.

118. California Department of Health Services, Maternal and Child Health Branch. (1995). Our Children’s Teeth: Beyond Brushing and Braces. Sacramento, CA: Author.

119. United States General Accounting Office, Health, Education, and Human Services Division. (1996) School Facilities: Profiles of School Condition by State. (Govt. Doc. No. GA 1.13:HEHS-96-148). Washington, DC: Author.

120. California Department of Health Services, Environmental Health Laboratory Branch (1998). Survey of Indoor Radon Concentrations in California Elementary Schools. Sacramento, CA: Author.

121. Kaplan, J, Marquardt, S, and Barber, W. (1998) Failing Health: Pesticide Use in California Schools. California Public Interest Research Group Charitable Trust.

122. Mannino, D. M., Siegel, M., Husten, C., Rose, D., & Etzel, R. (1996). Environmental tobacco smoke exposure and health effects in children: Results from the 1991 National Health Interview Survey. Tobacco Control, 5(1), 13-8.

123. Shapiro, G. G., Wighton, T. G., Chinn, T., Zuckrman, J., Eliassen, A. H., Picciano, J. P., & Platts-Mills, T. A. (1999). House dust mite avoidance for children with asthma in homes of low-income families. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 103(6), 1069-74.

124. Togias, A., Horowitz, E., Joyner, D., Guyden, L., & Malveaux, F. (1997). Evaluating factors that relate to asthma severity in adolescents. International Archives of Allergy and Immunology, 113(1-3), 87-95.

125. Stapleton, S. (1998, May 11). Asthma rates hit epidemic numbers; experts wonder why. American Medical News, 41(18). Chicago, IL: Journal of the American Medical Association, Asthma Information Center. Retrieved November 17, 1999 from the World Wide Web: http://www.ama-assn.org/special/asthma/newsline/special/epidem.htm

126. Environmental Working Group. (1999). What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You: Pesticides in California’s Air. Washington, DC: Author.

127. Norris, G., YoungPong, S. N., Koenig, J. Q., Larson, T. V., Sheppard, L., & Stout, J. W. (1999). Association between fine particles and asthma emergency department visits for children in Seattle. Environmental Health Perspectives, 107(6), 489-93.

128. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (1998, May 24). Surveillance for Asthma — United States, 1960-1995 (Document No. 47(SS-1), 1-28). Atlanta, GA: Author.

129. Guidotti, T. L. (1997). Ambient air quality and asthma: A northern perspective. Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology, 7(1), 7-13.

130. Northridge, M. E., & Shepard, P. M. (1997). Environmental racism and public health [comment]. American Journal of Public Health, 87(5), 730-2.