hookah use among youth and young adults: a public health challenge

E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A Major Public Health Concern.

Bidi and Hookah Use Among Canadian Youth: Findings From the 2010 Canadian Youth Smoking Survey

INTRODUCTION Although cigarette use among Canadian youth has decreased significantly in recent years, alternative forms of tobacco use are becoming increasingly popular. Surveillance of youth tobacco use can help inform prevention programs by monitoring trends in risk behaviors. We examined the prevalence of bidi and hookah use and factors associated with their use among Canadian youth by using...

Health literacy among young adults: a short survey tool for public health and health promotion research.

Health literacy (HL) is context-specific. In public health and health promotion, HL in the private realm refers to individuals' knowledge and skills to prevent disease and to promote health in everyday life. However, there is a scarcity of measurement tools explicitly geared to private realm contexts. Our aim was to develop and test a short survey tool that captures different dimensions of HL i...

Violence among youth in Jamaica: a growing public health risk and challenge.

1 Department of Child and Family Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America. 2 School of Education, Northcentral University, Prescott Valley, Arizona, United States of America. Send correspondence to: Katherine E. Green, 10000 University Drive, Prescott Valley, AZ 86314, USA; telephone: +01-865-573-2221; fax: +01-928-541-7817; e-mail: [email protected]. Althou...

Substance Use and Mental Health Treatment Retention among Young Adults

In Western and European cultures where marriage and parenthood are increasingly delayed to the late twenties and early thirties, a distinct developmental stage between adolescence and adulthood has been described as “emerging” or “young” adults. Development theory suggests that these “younger” adults have less social control and exercise higher levels of impulsivity and risky behavior than thei...

Methamphetamine use among young adults: health and social consequences.

The current research analyzed the relationship between methamphetamine use and health and social outcomes. Interviews were conducted with a sample of 106 respondents. Virtually all of the respondents experienced negative consequences of methamphetamine use. The most serious, but least prevalent, methamphetamine-related health problem was seizures and convulsions. The most prevalent health effec...