INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE AND HEALTH

Volume 13, No. 4, October - December 2001

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

International adolescent health

Joav Merrick and Mohammed Morad ............263

REVIEW ARTICLES

Adolescent health care and international developments in the past thirty years

David L. Bennett and Roger S. Tonkin ...............265

Trends in adolescent health: Perspectives from the United States

Robert W. Blum .............287

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Heart rate variability and physical fitness in children and adolescents with diabetes mellitus type I

K. Javorka, J. Buchanec, J. Javorková, and J. Buchancová ..............297

Labial adhesion as a complication of primary genital herpes in young women

Hatim A. Omar ..............311

Zinc status and meat avoidance in anorexia nervosa

P.P.. Tannhauser, Y. Latzer, G. S. Rozen, A. Tamir, and Y. Naveh ...............317

Paracetamol self-poisoning among adolescents in a department of hepatology

Lars E. Schmidt .............327

CASE REPORTS

Mysterious rectal bleeding in a female adolescent

Hatim A. Omar ...............335

TRENDS AND MILESTONES IN ADOLESCENCE

Pediatric health utilization in Israel

Joav Merrick and Mohammed Morad ...............339

BOOK REVIEWS .........343

APPRECIATION TO THE UNKNOWN REVIEWERS ...............347

CALENDAR OF EVENTS ...................348