INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE AND HEALTH

 

Volume 15, No. 4, October - December 2003

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

EDITORIAL

Smoking and long term effects

      Isack Kandel and Joav Merrick .............292

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Weight concern, dieting and eating behaviors. A survey of Israeli high school girls

      Yael Latzer and Orna Tzischinsky ...........295

      Teenage smoking: Some problems with interpreting the evidence

      Said Shahtahmasebi ...........307

      A comparison of pregnancy and child health outcomes between teenage and adult mothers in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya

      Negussie Taffa ............321

      Teenage pregnancy experiences in rural Kenya

      Negussie Taffa, David Omollo, and Zoe Matthews .........331

      Assisted delivery in the teenage population: The effect of inter-hospital ........... variation, deprivation, and age

      Jane Allen, Julia Hippisley-Cox, Mike Pringle, and Lindsay Groom ............341

      Analysis of prevalence, triggers, risk factors and the related socio-. economic effects of childhood asthma in the Student Lung Health

      Survey (SLHA) database, Canada 1996

      Frank Mo, Chris Robinson, Bernard CK Choi, and Felix Li .............349

      Tamoxifen treatment for pubertal gynecomastia

      Orhan Derman, Nuray Öksöz Kanbur, and Tezer Kutluk ............359

TRENDS AND MILESTONES IN ADOLESCENCE

      Smoking and adolescence

      Isack Kandel and Joav Merrick ...........365

      Physical activity, children and adolescents

      Joav Merrick and Isack Kandel ............369

BOOK REVIEWS ...........371

APPRECIATION TO THE UNKNOWN REVIEWERS ............ 374

CALENDAR OF EVENTS ............375