INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE AND HEALTH
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