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Promoting the Health of Adolescents
edited by Susan Millstein, Anne Petersen, and Elena Nightingale, 403 pp, $60, ISBN 0-19-507454-8, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Loren Leshan, MD, Reviewer
Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(6):557-558.
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Promoting the Health of Adolescents is an interesting and informative book that addresses many important issues central to promoting the health of adolescents. From the viewpoints of adolescents themselves to the identification of risk factors and from the influence of television and popular music to the success of peer role models, the authors explore the meaning of health and health promotion for today's adolescents.
A developmental perspective is suggested, as goals for health promotion for younger adolescents may be different from those for older ones. Adolescents and their health must be considered in the broader context of their life span with health promotion priorities reflective of healthy adulthood. Adolescents should be encouraged to reach their full "potential for enhanced health" with ageappropriate health promotion goals and activities.
Collaboration among health professionals, teachers, parents, churches, and other complex bureaucracies becomes a central theme of this book. No one individual or institution
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