This year's Women Deliver conference made a strong call for investing in the health and development of adolescents and young people. It highlighted the unique problems faced by adolescent girls and young women-some of the most vulnerable and neglected individuals in the world-and stressed the importance of addressing their needs and rights, not only for their individual benefit, but also to ach...

BACKGROUND Limited data exist regarding the effect of the growth process on anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury risk in male versus female children. HYPOTHESIS The proportion of ACL injuries/sports injuries presenting to clinic will vary by age, sex, and body mass index (BMI). STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional epidemiologic study. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Level 3. METHODS The study group consis...

.. Objective: To determine the variable clinical presentation of Poly cystic ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) & its association with Hyperinsulinaemia in young adolescent girls. Patients & Methods: A descriptive study was conducted for one year from February 2009-2010 at Isra University Hospital Hyderabad (IUH). 136 adolescent girls who came in OPD with suspected features of polycystic ovarian syndrome ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence of overweight concerns and body dissatisfaction among third-grade girls and boys and the influences of ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES). STUDY DESIGN Nine hundred sixty-nine children (mean age, 8.5 years) attending 13 northern California public elementary schools completed assessments of overweight concerns, body dissatisfaction, and desired shape, ...

This paper focuses on the experiences of out-of-school girls in Zimbabwe. It draws a research strand SAGE (Supporting Adolescent Girls’ Education), UKAid programme funded through Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s (FCDO) Education Challenge (GEC) initiative. Using digital storytelling approach highlights critical events that have changed girls’ lives impacted how they see their futu...

This paper explores two orphaned girls' accounts of victimization and vulnerability to child sexual abuse in their family homes. Interviews with these girls revealed a trend neglect, adversity processes adultification which involved within According the data, participants are vulnerable they experience as routinely sexually abused by older male relatives non-related men boys inside homes – wher...

Public health is currently focused on childhood obesity, and the associated behaviors of physical activity and nutrition. Canadian youth are insufficiently active and do not meet nutritional guidelines. This is of particular concern for adolescent girls, as they are less active than boys, become less active as they age, and engage in unhealthy weight control behaviors. The purpose of this revie...

Violent youth crime generates significant media and public attention, particularly “gang”, or group, related crime and gun and knife crime. When young women are involved in violence, as perpetrators or instigators, this receives disproportionate coverage, drawing on a discourse of girls being “just as bad as the boys” (Burman et al.:2003, Miller:2001). Alongside this interest in girls’ particip...

Examined self-reported depressive symptoms in 72 young people with spina bifida, ages 9 to 18:11, and matched able-bodied comparison subjects, using the Dimensions of Depression Profile for Children and Adolescents (Harter & Nowakowski, 1987). Independent variables included gender, self-perceptions (including physical appearance), and perceived social support. Young people with spina bifida wer...