Television and young people in Spain

It's not just the television: survey analysis of sedentary behaviour in New Zealand young people

BACKGROUND Sedentary behaviour has been linked with adverse health outcomes in young people; however, the nature and context of being sedentary is poorly understood. Accurate quantification and description of sedentary behaviour using population-level data is required. The aim of this research was to describe sedentary behaviour among New Zealand (NZ) youth and examine whether sedentary behavio...

Copper/zinc superoxide dismutase activity in newborns & young people in Spain.

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE There is evidence that reactive oxygen species (ROS) plays an important role in the pathophysiology of many paediatric disorders. We carried out this study to see whether superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity was associated with age, sex and rural or urban status in three groups of Spanish people (newborns, children and young). METHODS SOD activity was measured in red blo...

Pnm-13: Young People and Infertility Related toAirpolution

Professionals’ perception of intimate partner violence in young people: a qualitative study in northern Spain

BACKGROUND Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health problem with devastating effects on young women's health. These negative effects increase when the exposure to IPV lasts for a long time and exposure at an early age increases the risk of adult IPV. Despite efforts made in the last few decades, data show little progress has been made towards its reduction. Thus, the aim of the study ...

Young people's heroes in France and Spain.

Heroes play collectivist or individualist roles in imagination and self-development. Representations of heroic figures in questionnaires given to French (n = 241) and Spanish (n = 227) samples of 10 and 15-year-olds were examined to assess the extent that heroes originated in digital media, and whether they were proximal or distal personalities. There is strong evidence that heroes in this samp...