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Older Adolescents: A Group at Special Risk

Robert J. Haggerty, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1991;145(5):569-571.

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J eff, a 19-year-old who dropped out of school after tenth grade, has lived "emancipated" for the past 3 years on his own in New York, and survived for a time as a male prostitute. At a community health center he was recently discovered to have AIDS. When his disease progressed far enough to require hospitalization, it was found that he was ineligible for Medicaid without a prior assessment of whether his parents' health insurance covered him. But he did not want his parents to know that he had AIDS. While this may be seen as a problem with Jeff's pride, the fact that there is not presumptive eligibility for Medicaid, as there is for pregnancy, is a failure of our health system. This catch-22 situation is extreme, to be sure, but Jeff is one example of a group of poor and underserved children often forgotten by pediatricians and, indeed, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the William T. Grant Foundation, New York, NY.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication November 19, 1990.

Reprint requests to the William T. Grant Foundation, 515 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022-5403 (Dr Haggerty).

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