INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE AND
HEALTH
Adolescent medicine is coming of age
Gideon Vardi and
Joav Merrick .............................................................................................. 291
REVIEW
ARTICLES
Adolescent medicine with a 100 year perspective
Daniel
Hardoff and Evelyn Eisenstein .................................................................................. 293
Interventions to prevent HIV/AIDS among adolescents in less developed countries: Are they effective?
Lesley
Magnussen, John E Ehiri, Henry OD Ejere, and Pauline E Jolly .......................... 303
ORIGINAL
ARTICLES
A
sociological study of adolescent health in Ankara, Turkey
M
Aytül Kasapoğlu and Mehmet C Ecevit .......................................................................... 325
Adolescent
depression in Tobago
Hari
D Maharajh and Akleema Ali ......................................................................................... 337
Coping
with economic disadvantage. A qualitative study of Chinese adolescents from
low-income families
Ching Man Lam, Mong Chow Lam, Daniel TL Shek, and Vera
MY Tang ....................... 343
Peer,
family integration and other determinants of cannabis use among teenagers
Laurence
Kohn, France Kittel, and Danielle Piette ............................................................. 359
Hand
washing and adolescents. A study from seven schools in Konya, Turkey
S
Songül Yalçın, Suzan Yalçın, and Saliha Altın ................................................................. 371
The
evaluation of desmopressin in treatment of adolescent nocturnal enuresis
Orhan
Derman, Nuray Öksüz Kanbur, and Erol Kınık ........................................................ 377
TRENDS AND MILESTONES IN ADOLESCENCE
Obesity
and adolescence. A public health concern
Joav
Merrick, Liora Birnbaum, Isack Kandel, and Mohammed Morad ............................ 387
BOOK REVIEWS .......................................................................................................................... 389
APPRECIATION TO THE UNKNOWN REVIEWERS ........................................................... 391
CALENDAR OF EVENTS ............................................................................................................ 392