INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE AND HEALTH

 

Volume 17, No. 2, April – June 2005

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Iron deficiency anemia in adolescence

      Mohammed Morad and Joav Merrick .....................................................................................  96

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

      Oral health practices among adolescents. A study from family practice clinics in Israel

Barry Knishkowy and Harold D Sgan-Cohen ........................................................................  99

      Meaning of family reunification as interpreted by young Chinese immigrants

      Amy Mong Chow Lam, Ting Sam Chan, and Kcon Wah Tsoi .........................................  105

      Self-perception of body weight among high school students in Taipei,
Taiwan

      Randy M Page, Ching-Mei Lee, and Nae-Fang Miao ........................................................  123

      Teenage smoking: A longitudinal analysis

      Said Shahtahmasebi and Damon Berridge ...........................................................................  137

      Adolescent Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong: A comparison with
locally born students and factors associated with their psychological well-being

      Amy Mong Chow Lam, Kcon Wah Tsoi, and Ting Sam Chan .........................................  157

      Multi-site study of transition in adolescents with sickle cell disease in the United Kingdom and the United States

      Kofi A Anie, Joseph Telfair, and the Sickle Cell Disease Transition Study Group .......  169

      Iron deficiency anemia in a group of Turkish adolescents: Frequency and contributing factors

      Orhan Derman, Nuray Öksüz-Kanbur, İdil Yenicesu, and Erol Kınık................................ 179

CASE REPORT

      Aripiprazole for agitation in a 13-year-old girl with neuroleptic malignant syndrome

      Rachel E Dew, Peter B Rosenquist, and W Vaughn McCall .............................................  187

TRENDS AND MILESTONES IN ADOLESCENCE

      Recent trends in adolescent asthma

      Efrat Merrick, Michal Hemmo-Lotem and Joav Merrick .....................................................  189

BOOK REVIEWS ..........................................................................................................................  192

CALENDAR OF EVENTS ............................................................................................................  194