INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE AND HEALTH

 

Volume 14, No. 3, July - September 2002

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

EDITORIAL

      Adolescent health policy

      Joav Merrick .............171

REVIEW ARTICLES

      Youth health in Canada

      Roger S. Tonkin ...............173

      Towards an integrated adolescent health policy in Israel

      Barry Knishkowy, Yona Amitai, and Alex Leventhal ...............179

      Anorexia nervosa: A multifactorial disease of nutritional origin?

      Pia P. Tannhauser ................185

      The importance of the measurement of the circumference of arm, arm muscle area and skinfold thickness during puberty

      Orhan Derman, S. Songul Yalcın, Nuray Ö. Kanbur and Erol Kınık .................193

      The violent and homicidal adolescent. Hearts darkened before time

      Daniel L. Davis and Tamela D. Dutcher ...................199

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

      Attitudes towards people with mental illness. Effects of a training program for secondary school students

      Petrus Ng and Kai-Fong Chan ..................215

      Adolescent medicine for medical students. A study of knowledge and performance among medical students in Brazil

      Ligia de Fatima N. Reato and Maria Ignez Saito ...................225

      Osteocalcin. A biochemical marker of bone turnover in males during puberty

      Nuray Ö. Kanbur, Orhan Derman, Tolga A. Şen, and Erol Kınık ................235

TRENDS AND MILESTONES IN ADOLESCENCE

      Children and homicide

      Joav Merrick and Mohammed Morad ...............245

BOOK REVIEWS ................249

CALENDAR OF EVENTS .........................254