Resources for Healthcare Providers
This selection of resources is for health care professionals, social workers, teachers, and other adults who work with adolescents. Many of these materials are authored by our staff here at the Center for Young Women's Health, and others are our recommendations to you. These include health guides (ie, health articles), course materials, teaching curricula and manuals, web sites, and books.
We invite you to print out our online materials, and give them to your patients and students. If you are interested in a more extensive use of our materials, please contact us via our permission request form. Also, please read our Terms of Use to learn more about how you may use our website materials and services.
Resources
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Health Guides (Health Articles)
Health Guides
Evaluating Health Information - A guide to help health care providers evaluate health information resources for reliablity and accuracy.
HPV Vaccine: A Guide for Nurses
Meningococcal Vaccine: A Guide for School Nurses
Pertussis Vaccine: A Guide for School Nurses
Understanding Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) in Teens - A Guide for School Nurses, Health Educators, and Others
Courses
Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education
The department's mission is to optimize patient care by providing the most current information and strategies for physicians and allied health professionals. The department offers approximately 255 courses, in which over 60,000 healthcare professionals from over 70 countries have enrolled. The website features and online teaching tool, which allows HMS Faculty to come to the homes and offices of health care professionals throughout the world.
Curricula and Manuals
Teen Safe Project - This curriculum and facilitator's guide for health professionals and educators of teen girls ages 12-15 features modules on healthy relationships, safety in relationships, safety on the streets, and safety on the Internet.
How To Start A Youth Web Advisory Program - This manual is for professionals interested in educating teens on how to access and evaluate health information, and also to train teens to to develop web resources.
Web Teaching Materials: Compendium to How To Start A Youth Web Advisory Program - This manual is a lesson plan for instructors who are teaching youth advisors how to navigate the Internet and create a Web page.
Web Sites
American Academy of Pediatrics
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Boston LEAH (Leadership Education in Adolescent Health)
Center for Young Women's Health
North American Society of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
Society for Adolescent Medicine
Books
Primary Care of Adolecent Girls. Philadelphia: Hanley and Belfus, 2000.
Handbook of Adolescent Health Risk Behavior. NY: Plenum Press, 1996.
Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. 5th edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Raven, 2005.
Essentials of Adolescent Medicine. McGraw-Hill Companies, 2006.
Adolescent Health Care: a Practical Guide. 5th edition. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 2007.
Adolescent Medicine: a Handbook for Primary Care. Philadelphia: Lippincott Raven, 2005.
Updated 1/15/2007
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