The Journal of Adolescent Health is a multidisciplinary scientific Journal, that finds its research materials from the field of Adolescent Medicine and Health that varies from the public health and policy basic behavioral to biological and behavioral sciences. The publishers usually look for letters to the editor, review articles, commentaries, case reports and original manuscripts. Most materials are obtained from the scientists in Dentistry and Oral Health, Public Health and Policy, Mental Health, Health Services Research, Social Work, Sociology, Anthropology, Law, Education, International Health, Medicine, Nursing, Nutrition, Psychology, Youth Development, as well as a large array of disciplines meant to improve the lives of adolescents and young adults.
Adolescent medicine
Adolescent medicine is considered as a medical subspecialty geared towards caring for patients that in the last years of elementary school up until their graduation from high school, basically, patients that are still in their adolescent period. Adolescent medicine is an important specialty of Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Pediatrics and Youth Health. Such patients have generally just entered puberty that normally starts between the ages of 11 to 14 for boys and 9 to 11 for girls. Adolescent medicine, as a primary care subspecialty, incorporates all the aspects of gynecology, endocrinology, sports medicine, nutrition, dermatology and psychology.
Adolescents should have regular comprehensive physical exam (including a STI testing, developmental and neurological assessment, and a reproductive system exam) and mental health status exam on at least a yearly basis, in addition to regular ocular and dental exams as well as a detailed history. Every year, their developmental progression should be analyzed. This analysis should include an assessment of Tanner stage, and at each visit an appropriate endocrinological work-ups must be undertaken for patients with development disorders.