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HEALTH is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in human health. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for physicians, health researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in health related problems. All manuscripts mu…
Rosnah Sutan, Asmah Johari, Rozita Hod, M. T. Azmi
Epidemic incidence of obesity has become one of the public health priorities in disease control prevention. The study aims to determine the prevalence of readiness stages to lose weight among the overweight and obese adolescents and its influencing factors. A…
Angelika A. Schlarb, Nathalie Brock, Fridtjof W. Nussbeck, Merle Claßen
Background: Infatuation and lovesickness are widespread and significant experiences in adolescence. Less is known about the connection between infatuation/lovesickness and sleep. The few studies, examining the link between infatuation and sleep quality show i…
Kazumitsu Nawata, Akikuni Matsumoto, Ryosuke Kajihara, Moriyo Kimura
In this paper, we first evaluated the distribution of blood pressure (BP) using a dataset containing 113,979 measurements in 48,022 individuals with the cooperation of one health insurance society in Japan from April, 2013 to March, 2016. The means of the sys…
Umut Zubarioglu, Sinan Uslu, Ali Bulbul
Necrotizing enterocolitis [NEC] is an inflammatory disease of intestine largely occuring in preterm infants with a wide range of damage from minimal injury limited to mucosa to extensive necrosis of bowel wall and perforation. Despite advancements in neonatal…
Andrew G. Onokerhoraye, Johnson Egbemudia Dudu
This paper examines the perception of adolescents on the attitudes of providers on their access and use of reproductive health services (ARHS) in Delta State, Nigeria, with a view of assessing the impact of providers’ attitude on the use of adolescents’ repro…
Nanna Gillberg, Elisabet Wentz
There is a documented and often unmet need for interventions aimed at supporting young people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and/or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in their transition between adolescence and adulthood. Difficulties with s…
Khawaja Shakeel Ahmed, Nuredin Mohamedkassm Siraj, Henok Fitsumberhan, Sara Isaac, Semhar Yohannes, Dawit Eman, Yacob Berhane, Matiwos Araya
Purpose: Poor hygiene practice, inadequate sanitary conditions and lack of awareness of correct mode of transmission are some factors that attribute to high intestinal parasitic infection among children. Therefore, having proper knowledge, good attitude and p…
Angela U. Ekwonye, Terrence F. Cahill, Deborah De Luca, Lee Cabell
Depression is one of the most common psychological disorders that affect adolescents. In this study, we investigated how depression in adolescents relates to social support, religiosity, and spirituality in multivariate analyses. We also investigated whether…
Tamara Figueiredo, Maria Teresa Santos Guedes, Luís Paulo Souza e Souza, Antonio Abílio Santa Rosa, Antônio Carlos Accetta, Maria Aparecida de Luca Nascimento, Laís Santiago, Deivite Danilo Ferreira Alcântara, 1 1
Background: Gastric cancer is the third most incident malignancy and the fifth leading cause of death in the world. In Brazil, it is the fourth most common tumour in men and the fifth in women. Familial aggregation of this tumour is being studied and discusse…
Beena Nitin Joshi, Sanjay Laxman Chauhan, Ragini Nitin Kulkarni, Babita Kamlapurkar, Rajesh Mehta
Background: Ministry of Health, Government of India developed the Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH) strategy and operationalized adolescent health services up to district and sub-district hospital level. Objectives: To operationalize adolescent…
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