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above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...
childbearing age and, particularly adolescent girls, should receive special attention in regards to prevention. There are several ...
affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...
pricing adolescents out of the alcohol market. As Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow state, the theory of supply and deman...
Because antiabortion activists have been so successful in blocking legislative approaches toward governmentally subsidized contrac...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...
1993, p. 3), Piaget and Vygotsky illustrate how this lopsidedness can create a considerable amount of frustration. Often misconst...
the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...
that one can incorporate the extreme with the ordinary? Indeed, risk taking represents a bit of all of these definitions, inasmuc...
issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...
available to young people with potential problems: primary, secondary and tertiary, which "can be viewed along a continuum in ter...
possibilities; and other issues. They also dont seem to understand that older people were once young, and therefore understand th...
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...
Discussion Parents serve, either consciously or unconsciously as role models for their children. Gender roles develop in p...
cause of death for 5-to-14-year-olds" ("Teen suicide"). Such statistics suggest that depression in childhood and adolescence can b...
families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...
things also play a role in the analysis. While a variety of things are examined, and statistics complied, there is seemingly only ...
goes on to say that the nature of the family is its members being "connected emotionally" (Bowen Center for the Study of the Famil...
a major relapse when they are adults (Olfson et al, 2003). Therefore treatment at an early stage may help prevent later episodes. ...
nature of both the emotional and the physical changes that are a natural part of adolescence ("Teen," 2003). Annually, close to 5,...
link between the unhealthy, fat-laden meals served by fast food restaurants and the epidemic of obesity in the U.S. However, commo...
This research paper consists of an analysis of Green, et al's 2010 study, "Does heavy adolescent marijuana use lead to criminal in...
properly! Schoolyard bullies have long made lives miserable for their victims who typically endure unrelenting taunting and phys...
of risk and the impact for families. Research suggests that there is a need to consider the approaches for assessing suicide ri...
226) and occurs in as much as 26 percent of the adolescent population, and include alcohol, tobacco and illegal substance use. Su...
serious, potentially fatal, but preventable, complication of diabetes mellitus that occurs when there is insufficient insulin to m...
to drugs, when placed in water is to swim vigorously and frantically claw at the side of the container in an effort to escape (Rib...
ways. At the beginning of the novel, they follow a Cain and Abel dichotomy. Gabe is the good and obedient child, "the son who is q...
where the program will be delivered. The distribution will be mainly for the way that information is delivered as well as informat...