INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE AND HEALTH

 

 

Volume 16, No. 4, October – December 2004

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 

EDITORIAL

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