Overview
- Addresses the unique healthcare needs of adults with chronic childhood illnessess
- Serves as a practical guide for the busy adult clinician in the care of adults with chronic childhood illnesses
- Outlines the management of specific diseases, including epidemiology, preventive screening, and common medical complications and co-morbiditiess
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Facilitating the Transition from Pediatric-Oriented to Adult-Oriented Primary Care
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Care of the Emerging Adult
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Case-Based Examples of Management of the Young Adult with a Chronic Childhood Condition
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About this book
This book addresses the unique healthcare needs of adults with chronic childhood illnesses. It presents a model of primary and secondary prevention for emerging adulthood—primary prevention in which all young adults are screened for high-risk behaviors and health needs and secondary prevention in which young adults with chronic childhood conditions are optimized through coordinated care, connections to community resources and social/family support.
This book is organized in five parts. Part I provides a detailed overview of the health care transition from pediatrics to adult medicine from both a policy and practice perspective. In Part II, the concept of emerging adulthood as a developmental period is explored and strategies for providing improved comprehensive care for this age group are discussed. Part III reviews specific chronic childhood conditions, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism, cystic fibrosis, and diabetes mellitus, and offers clinical cases and summary reports that can be used as a quick guides to each condition. In Part IV, additional clinical considerations that are not necessarily condition-specific but are highly relevant to the care of young adults with chronic childhood conditions are examined. Part V describes the socio-legal issues involved in caring for this population.
Care of Adults with Chronic Childhood Conditions provides primary care providers with a new framework for the care of young adults and identifies opportunities to influence patient health outcomes over a life trajectory.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mariecel Pilapil, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Medicine and Pediatrics, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, USA
David DeLaet, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
Alice A. Kuo, MD, PhD, Professor and Chief, UCLA Medicine-Pediatrics, Director, UCLA Medicine-Pediatrics Comprehensive Care Center, Health Care Transitions Research Network (HCT-RN), UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Cynthia Peacock, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Niraj Sharma, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Medicine and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, BostonChildren’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Care of Adults with Chronic Childhood Conditions
Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide
Editors: Mariecel Pilapil, David E. DeLaet, Alice A. Kuo, Cynthia Peacock, Niraj Sharma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43827-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43825-2Published: 23 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43827-6Published: 24 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 436
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: General Practice / Family Medicine, Primary Care Medicine