Many indicators of socioeconomic status used for adults are inappropriate for use in
research on adolescents. In a school-based survey of 4079 Scottish schoolchildren using a …

We focus on the goal of health promotion to empower persons to alter the conditions that
affect their health. The conception of empowerment applied to children implies a …

Objective To detect any change in exposure to secondhand smoke among primary
schoolchildren after implementation of smoke-free legislation in Scotland in March 2006 …

Objectives. We sought to (1) compare estimates of the prevalence of fighting and weapon
carrying among adolescent boys and girls in North American and European countries and …

Human beings are made of~ 50 trillion cells which arise from serial mitotic divisions of a
single cell-the fertilised egg. Remarkably, the early human embryo is often chromosomally …

OBJECTIVE: To examine gender, age, and country variations in adolescents' self-reported
medicine use. DESIGN: Cross-sectional school surveys of representative samples of 11-to …

Objective: To examine change in home smoking restrictions one year after introduction of
Scottish smoke-free legislation, and whether type of restriction impacts upon secondhand …

Background: Regular participation in physical activity can have significant health gains in
terms of physical and psychological wellbeing but there is evidence to suggest that many …

Objectives: We explored the association between socioeconomic position and four different
aspects of adolescent health behavior in a wide range of European countries, the US …

Injuries are the major cause of morbidity among children and adolescents in developed
countries, but there is a lack of consensus on the relationship between socioeconomic status …