Roger W Apple1*, Donald E Greydanus1 and Joav Merrick2-6 1Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA 2National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem 3Office of the Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affa...

Political participation is one of the important pillars of any country's development. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between social values ​​and political participation of Behbahan youth. For this purpose, the theories of Schwartz, Inglehart and Milbrath were used as a theoretical framework. The research method is survey. The sampling method is multi-stage cluster ...

BACKGROUND Although the initiation of injection drug use has been well characterized among at-risk youth, factors that support or impede cessation of injection drug use have received less attention. We sought to identify socioeconomic factors associated with cessation of injection drug use among street-involved youth. METHODS From September 2005 to May 2015, data were collected from the At-Ri...

Existing research rarely considers important ethnic subgroup variations in violent behaviors among Latino youth. Thus, their risk for severe violent behaviors is not well understood in light of the immense ethnic and generational diversity of the Latino population in the United States. Grounded in social control theory and cultural analyses of familism, we examine differences in the risk for se...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(4) Summary The issue of gender is an essential feature of the provision of sexual and reproductive health services and policy formulation should be directed towards the needs of men as well as women. This approach is especially important for youth services, with an emphasis on personal relationships and the provision of condoms for safer sex. The vi...

The current youth market is characterized as tech-savvy, variety seekers who has been active in using digital technology in unprecedented ways. The market segment defined here comprises of youth adults between the ages 20 to 30, who are more comfortable with purchasing the smartphones than previous generation. There is fierce competition in smartphone market, due to the large selection of devic...

Values have very important functions in any society. The significance  becomes so clear when a society has been exposed to changes and strengthening social cohesion is viewed as an essential subject. Great changes as the Islamic Revolution and the Imposed War have been happened in Iran during last several decades. In this line, generations can be understood via  direct or indirect experience of...

Over the last decades, an increase in antipsychotic (AP) prescribing and a shift from first-generation antipsychotics (FGA) to second-generation antipsychotics (SGA) among youth have been reported. However, most AP prescriptions for youth are off-label, and there are worrying long-term safety data in youth. The objective of this study was to assess multinational trends in AP use among children ...