Ensuring Healthy Futures 
for adolescent and young adult males 

September 3, 2013 Update
 
Welcome to Healthy Futures E-News
 
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Welcome to the fifth issue of our newsletter. You are receiving it because of your work to improve the health of adolescent and young adult (AYA) males. This newsletter is a part of our campaign to insure that adolescent and young adult males have access to and are afforded the care they need to live healthy and productive lives free from preventable disease, violence, trauma and other risk factors.

The project is a a multi-year effort that aims to promote health among young men through the creation and dissemination of comprehensive clinical recommendations for health care professionals and programs that interact with them. The project is a collaborative and interdisciplinary undertaking among a range of stakeholders in young men's health. 

We hope you will find the information you find here to be insightful as well as useful and will pass it along to your colleagues.

Dennis

Co-Founder

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Pediatrics, September 2, 2013: Study finds males more likely than females to die during childhood and adolescence
 
While previous studies have found that adult males have an overall greater likelihood of death than females, this study found males are also more likely than their female peers to die during childhood and adolescence not only from injuries but also from a wide variety of medical conditions, suggesting the existence of either a female robustness factor or a male vulnerability factor.
 
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CDC: HPV vaccine for boys has 'good start' in 1st year, although rates for both boys and girls is lagging
 

About 1 in 5 boys got at least one of the recommended three HPV vaccine doses last year, according to the CDC. This rate is considered relatively good for a new vaccine aimed at adolescents.  

 

The government MMWR report issued Thursday is the first real sense of how many boys are getting the shots since it was first recommended in 2011. 

   

''It's a good start,'' said Shannon Stokley, a vaccination expert with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 

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Healthy Futures Announces New Advisory Council Members

  

The Healthy Futures project is honored and pleased to announce two new members of its Advisory Council. They are James Farrow, MD and Margaret A. McManus, MHS
 
Margaret McManus is president of The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health, has written numerous reports and articles concerning health care delivery and financing issues for youth and their families. With Ms. Fox, she has directed several national projects on health insurance coverage of adolescents and children with special needs. Ms. McManus was a consultant to American Academy of Pediatrics on a broad range of financing policy statements for 20 years. She has considerable expertise in state policies and practice changes to promote transition from pediatric to adult health care for adolescents with special needs. Ms. McManus received a Watson Fellowship and has a Masters in Health Sciences from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. 
 
James Farrow, MD is a professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Adolescent Medicine. He currently directs the college health service at Tulane and is the clinical director of the Men's Health Clinic. Formerly, Dr. Farrow was the Director of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Farrow's research interests have been with marginalized adolescent male populations: street youth, delinquents, sexual minority youth, substance abusing youth. His clinical interests are primarily in the care of adolescent and young adult men with an emphasis on improving health-related behaviors and engaging young men in preventive care. 
 
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About Healthy Futures 

Adolescent and young adult (AYA) males have unique, unmet health care needs in a number of areas, including sexual, reproductive and mental health, trauma and violence. The mission of the Ensuring Healthy Futures project is to engage a range of health care leaders, organizations and Federal agencies in a collaborative effort to develop and disseminate clinical practice tools that will address these health care needs.

 
Who we are

The project is coordinated by The Boys Initiative and is guided by the project's Steering Committee and Advisory Council. The project has engaged over 50 organizations in the effort, many of which will become project partners.
 
Resources we provide

  

In addition to serving as a hub for information exchange among project participants, the Ensuring Healthy Futures project maintains an interactive online compendium of research and information on adolescent and young adult male health, sponsors webinars and conferences and provides access to experts in the areas the project addresses.

  

Join  Us  

 

Join us by telling us about your interest and how we can help you in your work.  E-mail Dennis Barbour, The Boys Initiative, or reach out to him at 202-841-7475