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Health risk behaviors and associated risk and protective factors among Brazilian Adolescents in Santos, Brazil
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Factors that are associated with a wide range of health risk behaviors among adolescents in Brazil appear to parallel those found in industrialized countries: access to guns, substance use, and sexual abuse.About:
This article is published in Journal of Adolescent Health.The article was published on 2001-04-01. It has received 169 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sexual abuse & Protective factor.read more
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ADOLESCENT RESILIENCE: A Framework for Understanding Healthy Development in the Face of Risk
TL;DR: The authors discuss three models of resilience, the compensatory, protective, and challenge models, and describe how resilience differs from related concepts, and discuss implications that resilience research has for intervention and describe some resilience-based interventions.
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Suicide and Suicidal Behavior
Matthew K. Nock,Guilherme Borges,Guilherme Borges,Evelyn J. Bromet,Christine B. Cha,Ronald C. Kessler,Sangkeun Lee +6 more
TL;DR: Examination of prevalence of, trends in, and risk and protective factors for suicidal behavior in the United States and cross-nationally revealed significant cross-national variability in the prevalence of suicidal behavior but consistency in age of onset, transition probabilities, and key risk factors.
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Adolescence and the social determinants of health
Russell M Viner,Elizabeth M. Ozer,Simon Denny,Michael Marmot,Michael Resnick,Adesegun O. Fatusi,Candace Currie +6 more
TL;DR: Improving adolescent health worldwide requires improving young people's daily life with families and peers and in schools, addressing risk and protective factors in the social environment at a population level, and focusing on factors that are protective across various health outcomes.
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Connectedness as a Predictor of Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes for Youth
Christine Markham,Donna Lormand,Kari M. Gloppen,Melissa F. Peskin,Belinda Flores,Barbara Low,Lawrence Duane House +6 more
TL;DR: Connectedness can be a protective factor for ASRH outcomes, and efforts to strengthen young people's pro-social relationships are a promising target for approaches to promote ASRH.
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The relation between child maltreatment and adolescent suicidal behavior: a systematic review and critical examination of the literature.
TL;DR: A subset of studies yielded evidence to suggest that sexual abuse and emotional abuse may be relatively more important in explaining suicidal behavior than physical abuse or neglect, as well as the need for integrated treatment approaches that effectively address both CM and adolescent suicidal ideation and suicide attempts.
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Protecting adolescents from harm: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health.
Michael D. Resnick,Peter Shawn Bearman,Robert Wm. Blum,Karl E. Bauman,Kathleen Mullan Harris,Jo Ann Jones,Joyce W. Tabor,Trisha Beuhring,Renee E. Sieving,Marcia L. Shew,Marjorie Ireland,Linda H. Bearinger,J. Richard Udry +12 more
TL;DR: Family and school contexts as well as individual characteristics are associated with health and risky behaviors in adolescents, and the results should assist health and social service providers, educators, and others in taking the first steps to diminish risk factors and enhance protective factors for young people.
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Beyond the Classroom: Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need to Do
TL;DR: The authors of as discussed by the authors argue that the real problem with America's educational system is not a matter of school reform, diversity, mass media, or disadvantaged populations; rather, it is the disproportionate number of disengaged students.
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The effects of race/ethnicity, income, and family structure on adolescent risk behaviors.
Robert W. Blum,Trisha Beuhring,Marcia L. Shew,Linda H. Bearinger,Renee E. Sieving,Michael D. Resnick +5 more
TL;DR: Findings suggest that when taken together, race/ethnicity, income, and family structure provide only limited understanding of adolescent risk behaviors.