A wider perspective on puberty.

Precocious puberty: a parent's perspective.

Passed the Age of Puberty: Organizational Networks as a Way to Get Things Done in the Health Field; Comment on “Evaluating Global Health Partnerships: A Case Study of a Gavi HPV Vaccine Application Process in Uganda”

In this commentary I will demonstrate that the case study of Uganda’s Human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine application partnership provides an excellent example of widening our lens by evaluating the successful HP vaccine coverage from a network-centric perspective. That implies that the organizational network is seen as the locus of production and that network theories become indispensable to a...

Prepubertal and Pubertal Caecal Wall Histology in Japanese Quails (coturnix Coturnix Japonica)

The present study is aimed to investigate changes in caecal wall histology of quails, during prepubertal and pubertal periods. To this end, forty quails at the ages of 10, 20, 30 (prepuberty) and 40 (puberty) days were slaughtered (10 birds in each sampling time) and histological sections from proximal, middle and distal parts of caeca were prepared and stained with H&E. It was observed that in...

The Onset of Puberty Heralds a Dramatic Set

1602 THE ONSET OF PUBERTY HERALDS A DRAMATIC SET OF PHYSICAL, COGNITIVE, EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIORAL, AND SOCIAL CHANGES. THE TRANSITION INTO adolescence also brings on several new health concerns—including increases in risk-taking, sensation-seeking, depression, substance use, and accidents.1-4 The onset of adolescence is also a time of both physiological and social changes that affect sleep.1-8 Of ...

A Conceptual Model for Underlying Factors of Parent-Adolescent Conflicts from Parents’ Perspective

Parent-adolescent conflict, which is affected by many factors, is one of the most important problems in many families with adolescents. This study, which was conducted via a qualitative method on the basis of grounded theory, aimed at identifying the underlying factors of parent-adolescent conflicts. Using theoretical, purposive, and voluntary sampling, a total number of 14 couples were selecte...