ArticleThe Milbank quarterly2023
Mixed Signals in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being Indicators in the United States: A Call for Improvements to Population Health Monitoring.
Article in The Milbank quarterly, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Epidemiology of gender dysphoria and gender incongruence in children and young people attending primary care practices in England: retrospective cohort study.Archives of disease in childhood · 2025Article
- Preteen Suicidal Ideation and Adolescent Academic Well-Being Among Child Welfare-involved Youth.School mental health · 2025Article
- Cross-cultural adaptation of mental health screening instruments for Samoan adolescents.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- Structural Racism and Well-Being Among Young People in the U.S.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
Policy Points Social indicators of young peoples' conditions and circumstances, such as high school graduation, food insecurity, and smoking, are improving even as subjective indicators of mental health and well-being have been worsening. This divergence suggests policies targeting the social indicators may not have improved overall mental health and well-being. There are several plausible reasons for this seeming contradiction. Available data suggest the culpability of one or several common exposures poorly captured by existing social indicators. Resolving this disconnect requires significant investments in population-level data systems to support a more holistic, child-centric, and up-to-date understanding of young people's lives.
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