Child & Adolescent Health Yearbook 2014

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, (Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Childrens Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, US; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel; School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, US)

Introduction; Playing with Fire; Cost Effectiveness of School Screening for Scoliosis: A Systematic Review; Predictors of Regular Health Checkups for Young adults; Community-based Interventions can Expand Access to Comprehensive Reproductive Health and HIV Information and Services for Married Adolescent Girls; The Between-Person and Within-Person Variability of Light Physical Activity among a Group of Rural Adolescents; Looking within the School Day: Does Activity Compensation Occur with Light Physical Activity?; Assessing Adolescent Contexts: Measures of Families, Peers, Schools and Neighborhoods; How Does the Quality in Preschool Affect Childrens Health and Wellbeing?; Assessment of Alcohol Drinking Habits among Secondary School Students in Grenada with Interest on the Impact of Alcohol Advertising Viewership; Barriers to Adolescents Accessing Sexual Reproductive Health Care in Grenada; Firesetting and Maltreatment: A Review; Long-term Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse; Firesetting Behavior and Associated Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders; Assessment and Treatment of Youth Fire-Setting: A Clinical Perspective; Academic Predictors and Characteristics of Self-Reported Juvenile Firesetting; Anorexia Nervosa in Adolescence: Current Concepts of Medical and Psychological Assessment and Management; Systematic Review of Peer Support Interventions for Adolescents with Chronic Illness; Significance of Self-Image and Identity in Youth Development; Middle School Age Childrens Acceptance of a Child with a Facial Scar; Bonding and Internet Addiction in Adolescent Boys and Girls in Hong Kong; Effectiveness of a Child-Only and a Child-Plus-Parent Nutritional Education Program; State-Wise Variation in Teenage Birth Rates in the United States: Role of Teenage Birth Prevention Policies; Adolescent Medicine: What can be Learned from an International Collaboration?; Substance use Disorders and Psychosocial Treatment; Smoking Cessation Treated with Pharmacologic Agents; Substance Abuse and Marijuana; Alcohol use Disorders: Primary Care Management; Misuse of Opioids and other Prescription Drugs, Over-the-Counter Drugs and Heroin; Illegal Stimulant Abuse; Date Rape Drugs; Substance Abuse and the Primary Care Clinician; About the editor; About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Index.