Falling Through the Cracks

Falling Between the Cracks

"Falling Through the Cracks:" Young Adults, Drugs, and Incarceration.

As a clinician working with high-risk youths in New York City, many of whom are justice-involved and substance users, I applaud Welty et al. for their illuminating article in the May issue of AJPH. Their study revealed many noteworthy findings, including the declining prevalence of substance-use disorders (SUDs) among justice-involved youths from about 50% at baseline to nearly 20% 12 years lat...

Applied public health research - falling through the cracks?

BACKGROUND There is a degree of dissonance between the types of evaluative research required by organisations providing or commissioning health care, those recommended by organisations developing evidence-based guidance, and those which research funding bodies are prepared to support. METHODS We present a case study of efforts to establish a pragmatic but robust evaluation of local exercise r...

Falling through the cracks--Virginia Tech and the restructuring of college mental health services.

n engl j med 357;2 www.nejm.org july 12, 2007 105 facts about his mental health history have emerged. At various points during Cho’s college career, Virginia Tech police officers, professors, and students recognized that he was mentally troubled, but although state psychiatric evaluators once briefly committed him to a psychiatric hospital, it is unclear whether anyone from the school monitored...

Falling through the Coverage Cracks: How Documentation Status Minimizes Immigrants' Access to Health Care.

Recent policy debates have centered on health reform and who should benefit from such policy. Most immigrants are excluded from the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) due to federal restrictions on public benefits for certain immigrants. But, some subnational jurisdictions have extended coverage options to federally ineligible immigrants. Yet, less is known about the effectiveness of such inclusive...