Ardis L. Olson, MD;1 Cecelia A. Gaffney, MEd;1 Viking A. Hedberg, MD, MPH;2 Wendy Gladstone, MD;3 Sam Dugan, MD;4 Robert Mathes, MD;5 Paul Reiss, MD6 1Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 2Plymouth Pediatrics, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, Plymouth, NH 3Exeter Pediatric Associates, Exteter, NH 4Bedford Pediatrics, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, Bedford, NH 5Abenaki Family Physicians, Wolfeboro Fall...

Several disconnects serve to weaken the use of evidence based programming in community settings. Communities face the need to address the challenges of multiple risk behaviors faced by adolescents in their communities, but must also work to support successful transitions to adulthood and the broader positive development of their youth. The stronger integration of positive youth development and ...

Research on resilience and vulnerability can offer very valuable information for optimizing design and assessment of interventions and policies aimed at fostering adolescent health. This paper used the adversity level associated with family functioning and the positive adaptation level, as measured by means of a global health score, to distinguish four groups within a representative sample of S...

Besides interrupting a woman’s education, early childbearing is associated with numerous adverse outcomes. Young teen mothers are at an increased risk of delivering low birth weight (< 2500g) and/or preterm (< 37 weeks gestation) births, experiencing physical violence, and living in poverty. Further, one limited study has shown that children of young teen mothers are more likely to have lower e...

PURPOSE Although disaster exposure has been linked with increased child aggression by previous reports, population-level trends are unknown. Pre- to post-Katrina changes in violence-related behaviors among New Orleans high school youth (ages: 12-18 years) were assessed. METHODS Data from the 2003 (pre-Katrina), 2005 (pre-Katrina), and 2007 (post-Katrina) New Orleans Youth Risk Behavior Survey...

OBJECTIVES To identify interventions effective in preventing youth violent behavior and commonalities of effective and ineffective interventions. METHODS A systematic review of the literature on the effectiveness of youth violence interventions was conducted. Interventions were categorized according to the level of the intervention: primary (implemented universally to prevent the onset of vio...

By using a reason-for-test code, we compared positivity for female chlamydia and gonorrhea. At family planning clinics, there were no statistically significant differences in screening versus diagnostic positivity for either chlamydia or gonorrhea among women. However, at adolescent health clinics, diagnostic positivity was higher than screening positivity for chlamydia and gonorrhea.

This article analyzes the meanings attributed to practices that promote adolescent health by 47 professionals from the Family Health Program in Fortaleza in the State of Ceará. It is a qualitative study in which semi-structured interviews enabled the production of data, subsequently organized according to content analysis, resulting in the following core themes: promoting health associated with...

The teen court concept has gained popularity in recent years as juvenile courts have had to deal with increased numbers of serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders. Its acceptance has been fueled, in part, by positive anecdotal reports from those involved with this peer-centered approach. This Bulletin examines several teen court evaluations, but cautions that we lack the empirical data...

This study examined behaviors of African American male adolescents, resulting from father absence. It further examined the extent to which there is a relation between African American boys’ behavior and their status as sons of an absent father. Effects of father absence was approached by researching articles and journals comparing African American males raised in female headed household to Afri...