Specific Aims Despite the years of suicidal research, there has not been a significant decrease in adolescent suicidality (suicidal ideations and behavior) in the last 50 years. Suicide continues to be the second leading cause of death among 10 to 24-year old?s globally with many more adolescents contemplating and attempting suicide (World Health Organization, 2010). The slow progress of knowledge generated in the study of suicidality may be related to the fragmented approach taken to investigate
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual violence are prevalent and compromise health and well-being of victims. Nearly one in four women1 and one in ten men2 in the United States report experiencing violence by a current or former spouse or partner, with adolescents and young adults at highest risk.3-5 Coerced sexual experiences are common, with 28% to 42% of women in college samples reporting at least one such experience6,7 and over three quarters of women who have been sexually assaulted reporting
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funding for this organization, but there are many health benefits which makes it vital. Thousands of Planned Parenthood centers provide health care services for men, women, and teenagers are scattered around the US. The centers provide low-income services that improves the health and well-being of Americans. These services provided by Planned Parenthood include alternatives to pregnancies, services for men's reproductive health, STD screenings or treatment. If funding were to end, millions of
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Is Cultural Health Capital a Booster Shot for Primary Care in Population Health? A primary care preventive care service and a curative health service that can be incorporated into broader population health efforts The prevalence of childhood obesity is unquestionably one of the most irking problems in the public health system in the United States. Research indicates that the percentage of children between 6-11 years of age who are obese increased from 7% to almost 20% between 1980 - 2008 (Homer
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Why is developmental assessment essential in the provision of primary care for infants, children, and adolescents, and what are the essential components of this assessment on the basis of a child's age? Developmental assessment is essential in primary care to identify developmental delays early and initiate treatment. Developmental delays includes, language impairment and learning disorders, mild intellectual disorders and severe disorders such as autism, global developmental delays, hearing loss
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RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENT DRUG ABUSE NIH GUIDE, Volume 25, Number 37, November 1, 1996 PA NUMBER: PA-97-005 P.T. 34, AA Keywords: Drugs/Drug Abuse National Institute on Drug Abuse PURPOSE The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
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a different way from the adults. Understanding what your child does online is important because the parent can advise them in making sensible choices about media use. The parents have to know media has integrated into the normal life of adolescents. The adolescent uses the media for various reasons,example, learning, communication, and entertainment among others. Teenagers are early adopters of new technologies and devices.Also, they are creators of digital contents that their way in the media. Some
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assessment tools I want to present are the: Apgar Score, Finnegan Scale, and Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). The Apgar Score was introduced in 1953 by the American doctor specializing in anesthesiology and pediatrics, Virginia Apgar (Kids Health, 1998). It was named after her and to this day doctors and nurses use it worldwide to evaluate how babies are doing after the delivery. It is the first test the newborn takes and it quickly allows making important decisions about the further diagnosis
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ECW Eassy Topic 3 Obesity Introduction: Do you know how many schoolchildren in Hong Kong are overweight? Why student get overweight easily? Accountings to Health officials have some encouraging news. The percentage of students deemed overweight has continued to drop over the past few years, down from 21.4 per cent in the 2010 school year to 20.9 this year. Sadly, the rate is still significantly higher than 16.4 per cent 15 years ago. Some 60,000 of 300,000 primary school children are still considered
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Julia Ray Capella University Abstract Julia selected substance abuse assessment tools for this report. She will be comparing two of the eight substance abuse assessment tools used in the mental health counseling field, the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory - Adolescent Version and the Adolescent Drinking Index. The comparison will compare the tools based on key test measurement concepts of reliability and validity. There will be a description of the results interpreted concerning both test
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