Tobacco use among adolescents is declining in the United States but remains a major public health problem in the United States and globally. The Healthy People 2020 model of determinants of health is useful in understanding the complex interaction of factors that help explain adolescent smoking-...
The rise of Generation Alpha Generation Alpha is the most recent to have been named, and many group members will not be able to remember a time before smartphones and social media. As of 2024, the oldest Generation Alpha members were still only aging into adolescents. However, the group alr...
PD birthrates/1000 adolescents (range: 0-134.3 whites and 6.1-113.6 blacks) were strongly associated by race (r=.55, p<.01). PD abortion rates (range: 0-53.0 whites and 19.5-96.2 blacks) were not associated by race (r=.02, p<.48). Among whites, both PD abortion rates and birth...
Chongqing and Beijing, China. With the collection of longitudinal brain images and psychobehavioural samples from school-age children and adolescents (6–18 years) in multiple cohorts, devCCNP has constructed a full set of school-age brain templates, morphological growth curves16and functional connecti...
Accurate and up-to-date estimates of the global cancer burden in adolescents and young adults (AYA) are scarce. This study aims to assess the global burden and trends of AYA cancer, with a focus on socioeconomic disparities, to inform global cancer control strategies. Methods AYA cancer, defi...
Examples of systemic and cyclical population health challenges are readily apparent:Chronic disease is rampant in the U.S.and touches every corner of the industry. The nation's mental health status is abysmal, with only half of all adolescents with symptoms of depression or anxietyhaving acce...
Another largelyunderserved populationwith unmet needs around sexualityeducationcomprises adolescents with disabilities. Two common and contradictory myths about people with disabilities are that they are not sexual and that they cannot control their sexuality. Research has shown that both of these misconceptio...
Where no empirical information on age-specific fertility rates is available, a model is used to estimate the share of births to adolescents. For countries without vital registration systems fertility rates are generally based on extrapolations from trends observed in censuses or surveys from earlier ...
Free Essay: The population I have chosen to work with is adolescents. I chose this population because I know from my own experiences how stress can affect...
The rise of Generation Alpha Generation Alpha is the most recent to have been named, and many group members will not be able to remember a time before smartphones and social media. As of 2024, the oldest Generation Alpha members were still only aging into adolescents. However, the group alr...