| I've divided this page into two sections. The first provides you
with some tips on searching for material on Medline, and the second
provides links to other Australian
and overseas
web resources, including some full text material. As accidents and
injuries are a major cause of death or disability in young people
I've included some links on this subject.
You'll also find material that may interest you on my child and adolescent
psychiatry page,
on my drug and alcohol
abuse page,
on my suicide and
self-injurious behaviour page,
and on my violence,
aggression, and dangerous behaviour page
Help for searching the journal literature for assignments is
here
Searching Medline
Remember that Medline has a Thesaurus of terms - MeSH
(Medical Subject Headings), a controlled vocabulary used for
indexing articles in Medline. MeSH terminology provides a
consistent way to retrieve information where authors may use
different terminology for the same concepts.
You will find material on adolescent health issues in Medline, but you will need to be aware of the thesaurus (MeSH) terms used to search for this group of people.
Sometimes you will find the age factor as part of the term - for example Pregnancy in Adolescence, while at others you will need to add the age category to the name of a health problem.
One of Medline's great advantages is its list of age groups which you can use when searching. You will find these listed in the Mesh Database.
MeSH Age Groups List
Many topics in MeSH have hierarchies of more specific subcategories or related terms. The indentations in the lists reflect the structure of the hierarchy, and the + signs at the end of terms indicate that there is a further hierarchy of terms not displayed here. Any of these terms can be searched individually, or you can "explode" terms to search sections of the list.
Below is a simple example of a search for articles on teenage
pregnancy
Teenage Pregnancy is not a MeSH term. The MeSH term is
Pregnancy in Adolescence
PubMed Search Formulation
pregnancy in adolescence[mh] AND english[lang]
This search is very broad and will retrieve all articles on
teenage pregnancy from the Medline database.
Click here to see how it works.
PubMed search.
The second search example includes a problem or disease
category, plus an age limit.
PubMed Search Formulation
obesity AND adolescent AND english[lang]
This search will retrieve articles on obesity in adolescents.
You may sometimes want to exclude adults and children. You may want to find
articles which deal only with adolescents NOT articles which deal
with adolescents, children and adults too. In this case you could just add
NOT (adult OR child)
PubMed's default setting is to "explode" all terms, and so it
will exclude adults, including middle aged and older people, and children, including preschool children as well as children aged between 6
and 12.
You can also add your own words to a search to extend its scope. Try copying and pasting the search below into PubMed. In this example w'eve included additional alternative terms for adolescents.
obesity AND (adolescent OR adolescence OR youth OR young) AND english[lang]
Now compare it with the two previous search strategies:-
obesity AND adolescent AND english[lang]
obesity AND adolescent AND english[lang] NOT (child OR adult)
The results are very different for each search. You will find that this happens a lot in searching databases - even small changes in the language you use can produce vast differences in the number of references you find.
 Alcohol-Related
Injury in Young Males
By Malinda Steenkamp, James Harrison, and Steve Allsop. Canberra,
Australian Institute of health and Welfare, 2002.
Australia's Young People - Their Health and Wellbeing 2003
(Australian Institute of Health and Welfare)
This is the second national report on the health and wellbeing of
young people in Australia. It provides comprehensive information on
the health status of young people including causes of
hospitalisations and deaths, chronic diseases, infectious diseases,
injury, disability, reproductive and sexual health.
Australia's
Young People --Their Health and Wellbeing 1999 (Auatralian
Institute of Health and Welfare)
This is the first national report on the health and wellbeing of
young people in Australia.
Child
Health and Development - Research report - Publications -
Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)
Some of the material discusses adolescents as well.
Children
and Youth (AIHW)
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare portal for child an
youth health.
Click here for the full text of publications on this
topic
Evidence -based Health Promotion: Resources for Planning. No. 2
Adolescent Health
Published by the Health Development Section of the Department of
Human Services, Victoria, in May 2000. It is based on the work of
staff from the Centre for Adolescent Health.
Health Report - Child Health
Transcripts from Radio National's Health Report, with Norman Swan.
Health Report - Youth
Transcripts from Radio National's Health Report, with Norman Swan.
National
Health and Medical Research Council - Publications - Child
health
A Social Health
Atlas of Young South Australians
A Social Health Atlas of Young South Australians. 2nd. edition, by
Sarah Tennant, Diana Hetzel and John Glover. Adelaide, Public
Health Information Development Unit, 2003.
Young Australians: Their Health and Wellbeing 2007 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare)
This is the third national report on the health and wellbeing of young people in Australia. Earlier volumes have the title: Australia's Young People --Their Health and Wellbeing
Youth Health
The Commonwealth government's youth heath page.
Youth Health
Site
From the South Australian government's Child and Youth Health. This
site contains health information for young people.
Accidental injury, risk-taking behaviour and the social circumstances in which young people (aged 12-24) live: a systematic review
By J Thomas, J Kavanagh, H Tucker, H Burchett, J Tripney, and A Oakley London: EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, February 2007. Other reports of interest for child and adolescent health are available from
EPPI-Centre published reviews
ADOL
Health Risk Factors for Adolescents
A collection of electronic resources intended for parents,
educators, researchers, health practitioners, and teenagers. From
Adolescence Directory On-Line (ADOL), which is an electronic guide
to information on adolescent issues from the Center for Adolescent
Studies at Indiana University.
Adolescent
Health
The transcript of an interview with Dr Michael Resnick from the
Adolescent Health Programme at the University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, broadcast on the Health Report on Radio National ,
September 22, 1997.
Adolescent Health and Development
Resources from the WHO Department of Child and Adolescent health
and Development (CAH)
AMA-Adolescent
Health On-Line
A collection of useful resources from the American Medical
Association's (AMA) Program on Child and Adolescent Health.
bmj.com
Collected Resources : Adolescents
The BMJ's collection of full text articles on this subject.
Child Health and Development
Resources from the WHO Department of Child and Adolescent health
and Development (CAH).
Child Health Specialist Library
One of a collection
of specialist libraries for the National electronic Library for
Health (NeLH) in the U.K.
Children's
Health, the Nation's Wealth: Assessing and improving Child
Health
Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health, National Research
Council. Washington D.C., National Academies Press, 2004.
European
Network of Health Promoting Schools. Reports and
publications
Health and Health
Behaviour Among Young People
A report published in 2000 by WHO, based on a 1997-98 survey of
over 120,000 students. It is part of an ongoing cross-national
study, Health Behaviors in School-Aged Children (HBSC). (WHO
Policy Series: Health Policy for Children and Adolescents; No.
1)
Health Survey for England 2002: The Health of Children and Young
People
A survey carried out on behalf of The Department of Health. Edited
by Kerry Sprotson and Paola Primatesta, Joint Health Surveys Unit
National Centre for Social Research, Department of Epidemiology and
Public Health at the Royal Free and University College Medical
School.
HealthyYouth.
Publications and Links
From the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion in the United States.
HealthyYouth.
YRBSS - Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
From the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion in the United States.YRBSS monitors six categories of
priority health-risk behaviors among youth and young adults at the
national, state, and local levels.
MedlinePlus:
Teen Health
MEDLINEplus is the National Library of Medicine's consumer health
information portal. Lists of links are
evaluated/reviewed/quality-filtered.
The
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
This study comes from the Carolina Population Center at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was produced in
1998.
Promoting Better Health for Young People Through Physical Activity
and Sports
A Report to the President from the Secretary of Health and Human
Services, and the Secretary of Education, Fall 2000.
Risks and
Opportunities: Synthesis of Studies on Adolescence
Michele D. Kipke, Editor; Forum on Adolescence, National Research
Council and Institute of Medicine. Washington D.C., National
Academy Press, 1999.
Teen
Risk-Taking: A Statistical Portrait
By Laura Duberstein Lindberg, Scott Boggess, Laura Porter, and Sean
Williams. Washington D.C., Urban Institute, 2000.
Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth 2003
Trends in the Well-Being of
America's Children and Youth 2002
Trends in the Well-Being of
America's Children and Youth, 2001
Trends in the Well-Being of
America's Children and Youth: 2000
Trends in the Well-Being of
America's Children and Youth: 1999
Trends in the
Well-Being of America's Children and Youth: 1998
Trends in the
Well-Being of America's Children and Youth: 1997
Trends in the Well-Being
of America's Children and Youth: 1996
An annual report from the Department of Health and Human Services
on trends in the well-being of children and youth in the
United States. It covers five broad groups of indicators.
- population, family, and neighborhood;
- economic security;
- health conditions and health care;
- social development, behavioral health, and teen fertility;
and
- education and achievement
Young People’s Health in Context. Health Behaviour in School-aged
Children (HBSC) study: international report from the 2001/2002
survey
Edited by Candace Currie ... [et al.].
(WHO Policy Series: Health Policy for Children and Adolescents ;
No. 4 , 2004)
Youth-specific
primary health care - access, utilisation and health
outcomes
A critical appraisal of the literature, by Kaaren Mathias.
NZHTA Report,
January 2002 Volume 5 Number 1
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