Adolescent Health, Confidentiality in Healthcare, and Communication with Parents

Ensuring the health of adolescents is an important social priority that requires the engagement of parents, healthcare providers, schools, and young people themselves. Although schools provide key information through health and sex education classes and adolescents' peers represent major influences on their health behaviors, it is also clear that healthcare providers and parents play critical roles. In this volume of The Journal, these roles are examined in studies by Gilbert et al1 and Edwards et al,2 which both offer instructive insights for a more nuanced understanding of issues long recognized as important factors in promoting adolescents' health and well-being: confidential communications in healthcare settings and parent–adolescent communication about sensitive issues such as sexual behavior.

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