January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...concerns about stigma may be important barriers to youth accepting and complying with treatment. The authors assert that improved reimbursement to primary care physicians for visits in which they negotiate diagnosis and treatment plans with depressed patients could improve treatment rates. Beliefs and At...State policies decrease youth smoking, drinking and sex
...t the state and city levels contributes to helping youth decide not to engage in smoking, drinking and sexual intercourse. It is also interesting to note that, contrary to the thought that access to a family planning clinic increases sexual behavior, our study found the opposite--family planning clinics do...Services for children: Training needed to tackle complexity of new labour's joined-up approach
...rating in children's services in England, covering youth crime, mental health, special needs provision for under-fives, neuro-rehabilitation and assessment of child development. Agencies and specialists involved included police, court workers, psychologists, social services, probationary, voluntary sector,...NIH awards USC $8.7 million to study tobacco use in China
...ar less than men, take up the habit and as Chinese youth begin to experiment with tobacco at increasingly earlier ages. So the need for tobacco use research along the Pacific Rim is greater than ever." The new center's studies will build upon earlier research conducted by the USC Transdisciplinary Tobacco ...Leadership gift from Sulpizio Family for new state-of-the-art cardiovascular center at UCSD
...eir three daughters were young, she volunteered in youth sports organizations and the Girl Scouts. The couple currently resides in La Jolla and Santa Ynez, Calif. In previous years, the couple made a gift to the Boys and Girls Club in Poway. The 20,000 square-foot Club was named after the family in recogni...Dialogue & personal example work best for parents in drug talks with teens
...way for influencing drug use among late adolescent youth is ongoing discussion, by both parents. "This much is clear - connecting with children about drugs and drug use is an essential part of parenting," she adds. "Parents may or may not be anti-drug, but they should talk with their children about alcoho...Researchers track program's success in curbing aggressive behavior
...veral different approaches to reducing suicides in youth and examining the impact of school-based drug prevention programs in rural communities. The goal is to identify preventive strategies with a track record of improving the educational success and mental health of children and encourage wider use of th...Natural mentors help mold lives of teens, study says
...suggests that structured programs and services for youth and natural mentoring should be woven together to make each more effective....Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults
... in future public-health interventions that target youth smoking," Bricker said. These findings build on an earlier study by Bricker and colleagues, published in the May 2003 issue of Addiction, which that found parents who quit smoking before their children reached third grade significantly reduced their ...English-speaking Hispanic youth more likely to have sex early
... U.S. culture. "Although Spanish-speaking Hispanic youth differ from English-speaking Hispanic youth on most of the variables in our modelthe multivariate analysis allows us to consider the effect of t...Teen athletes continue tobacco use, despite severe consequences
...rican coaches were willing to get training to help youth quit using smokeless tobacco, compared with 75% of Caucasian coaches. The researchers concluded that: tobacco use is a marker for other poor oral health behavior (e.g., alcohol use) that may increase students' risk of developing oral lesions, and ora...Teen tooth trauma prevalent in Ontario
... teeth broken or knocked out. They also found that youth who had problems with cavities also tended to have tooth injuries. The team's next task is to determine the causes of the teen tooth trauma, including such potential culprits as hockey injuries and family violence, and where the injuries take place. ...Malt liquor beers, and the people who drink them, are different
...ol industry to connote power and machismo and lure youth and young adults into the market. Rap artists hav... a sign of masculinity. The targeting of minority youth for malt liquor sales is of particular concern because alcohol advertising has been shown to influen...Mental health service costs offset by savings in other public sectors
...f the improved mental health services delivered to youth through the system of care approach now being trie...ery state in the U.S. Mental health services for youth delivered via system of care have been criticized as too expensive compared to communities that don'...Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
...ing, witnessing others being harassed shielded the youth from feeling humiliated or angry, Nishina and Juvonen found. "When kids pay attention to their environment, witnessing bullying often makes them feel bad. Even incidents that adults may not consider severe can affect kids who see them happening to th......ipant in the fight against childhood obesity. "Our youth are becoming increasingly overweight," she said. "Many school lunch programs inadvertently contribute to this problem by offering high-fat lunches. Working together on this and other projects, we hope to become part of the solution for overcoming thi...