The adolescent patient is often inadequately provided for within current health care systems as they are generally considered to be a healthy population group1. Studies report that they are often infrequent users of primary health care services such as general practitioners (GPs)2,3. In order to improve health care for this group, adolescent perspectives of health care services should be consid...

Diversity is a hallmark of behavioral health care systems. Many different people, with many different backgrounds and interests, are involved in many different activities through many different human organizations. Given this diversity, it is not surprising that multiple conflicting views emerge about how limited resources should be distributed, who should be served, and what services should be...

Teenage pregnancy and motherhood have implications for several different aspects of primary health care. First, the provision of health education and contraceptive services is obviously relevant to the prevention of unplanned teenage pregnancy. Secondly, appropriate obstetric care should be provided for teenagers, who are at high risk of developing complications in pregnancy and childbirth. Thi...

Internists can assume a greater role in the provision of health care to adolescents. Adding an understanding of adolescent development to the skills and knowledge already possessed by internists will allow internists to interact more comfortably and effectively with adolescent patients. Learning about specific areas of importance such as adolescent morbidity and mortality, consent and confident...

The current phenomenon shows that teenagers are into the sexually active period quickly. This condition causes adolescents to be more vulnerable experiencing adolescent reproductive health triad such as premarital sex, STI/HIV infections and drug abuse. Higher education is an educational institution whose students who do not rule out these problems. study aims determine cognitive, affective psy...

Premarital Sexual Among Adolescents In Adolescence is a time where one individual's experience of transition from stage to the next and good change emotion, body, interests, behavioral patterns, also full problems. This resulted in changes attitudes behavior, such as starting notice appearance myself, became interested trying attract opposite sex show feelings love, which would then arise sexua...

BACKGROUND Youth friendly services are designed to make health services accommodate the unique needs of youth. Nevertheless, in developing countries like Ethiopia, the level of knowledge about the use of these services is limited. The main aim of this study was to assess the extent of youth friendly service utilization and the associated factors among the youth. METHODS A community based- cro...