KEY FINDINGS Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009-2010. More than three-quarters of youth aged 2-19 years (77.1%) consumed fruit on a given day. Almost 92% of youth aged 2-19 years consumed vegetables on a given day. Nine out of 10 children aged 2-5 years consumed fruit, while only 6 out of 10 adolescents consumed fruit on a given day. More children aged 2-5 year...

BACKGROUND Vaccination for hepatitis A virus (HAV) has been implemented as one of the national vaccination programs despite the epidemiological transition of HAV in the Republic of Korea. While the national HAV vaccination program is largely associated with the shift of socioeconomic trend in the country, concerns have been raised on the effectiveness of the HAV immunization. The objective of t...

cited—that of mothers aged 15–19 with partners aged 20 or older; in their study, 65% of 15–19-year-old mothers had a partner aged 20 or older.5 Males and Chew took a similar conceptual approach, identifying “school-aged” mothers (ages 10–18) and their non–school-aged partners (19 or older).6 Grouping together 15–19-year-olds and their partners ages 20 and older may misrepresent the issue of ado...

objective: the objectives of the study were to find out the prevalence of depression and to identify associated risk factors among community dwelling elderly in karachi. methods: it was a cross-sectional, descriptive study involving 284 community-dwelling elderly residing in karachi, pakistan. a non-probability convenience sampling was done. the geriatric depression scale (gds-15) was used to a...

This study used a video-based hazard perception dual task to compare the hazard perception skills of young drivers with middle aged, more experienced drivers and to determine if these skills can be improved with video-based road commentary training. The primary task required the participants to detect and verbally identify immediate hazard on video-based traffic scenarios while concurrently per...