In 2022, Imelda Coyne, Professor in Children's Nursing & Co-Director of the Trinity Research in Childhood Centre (TRiCC) and Maria Demma Cabral, Associate Professor in Adolescent Medicine in Cottage Children's Medical Center, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, took over as Co-Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health (IJAMH).

Both bring a tremendous wealth of experience and expertise on adolescent health and well-being in broad contexts, and we are excitedly looking forward to this new phase of the journal.

Objective
The International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health (IJAMH) is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, scientific journal with aim to publish original research in all aspects of promotion and improvement of adolescents’ health and wellbeing. We seek original manuscripts, review articles, short communications and letters to the editor from all disciplines worldwide. We welcome manuscripts from our colleagues in medicine, clinical medicine, nursing, health services research, public health and policy and other disciplines that strive to improve adolescents’ health and wellbeing internationally. Our International Editorial Board is dedicated to producing a high-quality scientific journal that is essential reading for healthcare professionals, practitioners, researchers, educators, managers, policy makers, students, and other learners and which advances and promotes adolescents’ health and wellbeing.

Topics

Medicine and Clinical Medicine
Health issues
Adolescents
Hygiene and Environmental Medicine

Article formats
Review Articles, Original Articles, Short Communications, Letters to the Editor

Volume 15 Issue 4

Issue of International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Weight concern, dieting and eating behaviors. A survey of Israeli high school girls

Teenage smoking: Some problems with interpreting the evidence

A comparison of pregnancy and child health outcomes between teenage and adult mothers in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya

Teenage pregnancy experiences in rural Kenya

Assisted delivery in the teenage population: The effect of inter-hospital variation, deprivation, and age

Analysis of prevalence, triggers, risk factors and the related socio-economic effects of childhood asthma in the Student Lung Health Survey (SLHS) database, Canada 1996

Tamoxifen treatment for pubertal gynecomastia

Smoking and adolescence

Physical activity, children and adolescents

BOOK REVIEWS

Appreciation to the unknown reviewers