School-based health centers (SBHCs) mitigate the long-term effects of poor health on children and adolescents. Although varied in staffing patterns and services provided, SBHCs aim to advance health equity among populations with histories and ongoing experiences of oppression. Reforms in education ...
School-based health centers (SBHCs) are well situated to support students’ mental health needs because they provide crisis intervention, mental health care, and broader interventions to improve school climate. This study examined the association between urban adolescents’ use of SBHCs and their rece...
School-Based Health Centers: Politics and Community Support.School-based health centers (SBHCs) provide comprehensive services to children who often have limited access to primary health care. The number of school-based health centers in the United States continues to grow. However, most SBHCs ...
Background As school-based health centers (SBHCs) continue to grow, it remains important to study use of the centers. The extent to which mental health problems exist in the students with access to the centers, whether those students are using the available services, if they are satisfied wit...
school health services; school-based clinics BACKGROUND: Quality improvement principles have been applied extensively to health care organizations, but implementation of quality improvement methods in school-based health centers (SBHCs) remains in a developmental stage with demonstration projects under way ...
KING COUNTY SCHOOL HEALTH Message from the Best Starts Co-Leads: “Our work doesn’t change even when the context does.” The Best Starts community acknowledges current challenges, including threats to rights and safety, increased hate speech, and fears among families. Committed to values of love...
Abstract Despite promising evidence that school-based health centers (SBHCs) and school mental health (SMH) services can reduce disparities in access to mental health care for underserved populations, little is known about what predicts retention of youth in SMH services. This study aimed to identif...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The study objective was to understand the relationship between depressive symptoms and demographic, behavioral, and environmental risk variables among adolescents attending school-based health centers (SBHCs) using the Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS) questionnaire...
One such strategy may be school-based health centers (SBHCs), which enhance access to and compliance with care while promoting school continuation for populations with high dropout rates.9 Theoretically, receipt of school-based care might reduce absenteeism because teenagers would go to medical appoin...
We assessed sexual behaviors, PrEP knowledge and attitudes among patients of 6 School-Based-Health-Centers (SBHCs) located in Northern Manhattan and the Bronx. Method 667 patients, aged 13–19 years, completed a survey in the SBHCs waiting rooms between 10/2018 – 4/2019 Results Of the ...