INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE AND HEALTH

 

Volume 15, No. 2, April - June 2003

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

EDITORIAL

      Adolescents with special needs and the transition from adolescent to adult health care

      Joav Merrick and Isack Kandel .........103

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

      Disease and health seeking patterns among adolescents in Uganda

      Anthony K Mbonye .............105

      Suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in Polish adolescents: Is it a suicidal process?

      Agnieszka Gmitrowicz, Wieslaw Szymczak, Magdalena Kotlicka-Antczak, and Jolanta Rabe-Jablońska ............113

      Photosensitive epilepsy beyond adolescence: Is freedom from photosensitivity age-dependent?

      Ebere C Anyanwu, John E Ehiri, and Joseph Jones .............125

      Prevalence of hepatitis A, B, C and E virus in adolescents with type-1 diabetes mellitus

      Mehmet Emre Atabek, Hulya Kart, and Ibrahim Erkul .............133

      Gender differences in developmental pathways on self-evaluation from adolescence into adulthood: The Flanders Longitudinal Study

      Leni MF Verhofstadt-Denève, Mark Schittekatte, and Karla Van Leeuwen .............139

      Introduction of computerized medical records. A survey of primary physicians

      Jacob Urkin, Dan Goldfarb, and Denis Weintraub .........153

CASE REPORTS

      Menorrhagia at menarche

      Nuray Ö Kanbur, Orhan Derman, Tarık Aksu, Mehmet Özarı, and Tezer Kutluk ........161

Phenylalanine-restricted diet should be life long. A case report on long term follow-up of an adolescent with untreated phenylketonuria

Joav Merrick, Shoshana Aspler, and Gerard Schwarz .........165

TRENDS AND MILESTONES IN ADOLESCENCE

      Changing patterns of diabetic deaths in youth and young adults by gender in the major developed countries 1974-97

Colin Pritchard and Robert Peveler ............169

      Female HIV-infected adolescents are now becoming pregnant

      Joav Merrick and Isack Kandel .............179

BOOK REVIEWS ............181

CALENDAR OF EVENTS .............185