INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE AND HEALTH

 

Special issue on Accidents, Risk Behavior, and Adolescence

Edited by Joav Merrick and Michal Hemmo-Lotem

 

Volume 16, No. 3, July – September 2004

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

EDITORIAL

Adolescent accidents and injury: Prevention is the way

      Michal Hemmo-Lotem and Joav Merrick ............. 191

REVIEW ARTICLES

      Youth injury in Israel: An appeal for change

Michal Hemmo-Lotem, Liri Endy-Findling, Claudia Jinich-Aronowitz, Yehuda L Danon, and Joav Merrick ............. 193

      Burn injuries and adolescents in Israel

      Mohammed Morad, Michal Hemmo-Lotem, Isack Kandel, Eytan Hyam and Joav Merrick .............. 201

      Adolescent injury risk behavior

      Joav Merrick, Isack Kandel, Liora Birnbaum, Eytan Hyam, Joseph Press, and Mohammed Morad ............. 207

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

      Neighborhood social composition and injury risks among pre-adolescent and adolescent boys and girls. A study in Stockholm Metropolitan

      Anne Reimers and Lucie Laflamme ............ 215

      Alcohol and road safety behaviour among New Zealand Tertiary students

      Helena M McAnally and Kypros Kypri ................. 229

      Substance use and youth violence. A study among 6th and 10th grade Israeli school children

      Michal Molcho, Yossi Harel, and Lache O Dina .............. 239

      Is there equalisation in socioeconomic differences in the risk of traffic injuries in childhood? A study of three cohorts of Swedish school children

      Lucie Laflamme, Karin Engström, and Martijn Huisman ................ 253

      Unintentional injuries among 16 to 20 year old students in Switzerland

      Joan-Carles Suris, André Jeannin, Pierre-André Michaud, Françoise Narring, Chantal Diserens, and the SMASH02 Group ............... 265

SHORT COMMUNICATION

      Adolescents, accidents, and the need to extend our scope of research

      Jacob Urkin, Yair Bar-David, and Ely Kozminsky .............. 275

TRENDS AND MILESTONES IN ADOLESCENCE

      Trends in adolescent injury mortality in Israel

      Mohammed Morad, Gideon Vardi, Isack Kandel, Eytan Hyam, and Joav Merrick ...... 279

BOOK REVIEWS ............... 285

CALENDAR OF EVENTS ............................................................................................................  290

 

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ISSN 0334-0139/16:3

Approximately 100 pages

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