Promoting the Health of Adolescents: New Directions for the Twenty-first Century - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195074548 ISBN 13: 9780195074543

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, 1993

Synopsis

Chronic diseases and premature death can often be linked to social, environmental, and behavioral factors that are subject to modification, especially during adolescence when many habits - good and bad - are formed. In order to effectively encourage good health-related behaviors among adolescents, health providers need an integrated understanding of the many factors involved. This volume fills that need by providing the most comprehensive, up-to-date review of the pertinent issues, including in-depth discussions on adolescent sexuality, substance abuse, the future of adolescent health promotion, and the relationship between socioeconomic status and health-related behaviors. The outstanding group of contributors represents a wide variety of disciplines and offers proven techniques and approaches that can help future adults enjoy longer, safer, more productive lives.

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Review

The contributors represent a variety of disciplines and offer proven techniques and approaches that can help future adults enjoy longer, safer, more productive lives. (Adolescence)

comprehensive and forward looking (Alex Paton, British Medical Journal)

comprehensive and forward looking. BMJ Vol 310 18 March 1995

Synopsis

Over the past few decades, increasing attention has been paid to the role of lifestyle in health and illness. A US Surgeon General's report on health promotion and disease prevention in 1979 estimated that 50% of the mortality among adults is a direct result of modifiable behavioural factors. Because many of these behaviours have their onset during the adolescent years, proponents of health promotion have viewed adolescents as an important target group for primary health promotion efforts. However, to influence adolescent behaviour, health providers need an understanding of the psychological, social, cognitive, environmental and physiological factors in the world of the adolescent. This volume, sponsored by the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, provides a compilation of research, addresses problem areas (the risk of AIDS, substance abuse, suicide and broken homes, among other critical issues), and identifies promising avenues for health promotion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195074548
• ISBN 13: 9780195074543
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 426
• Editor: Millstein Susan G., Petersen Anne C., Nightingale Elena O.