Challenges in Adolescent Health
Bennett, David / Towns, Susan / Elliott, Elizabeth / Merrick, Joav, MD, MMedSci, DMSc
This book addresses the issue of adolescent medicine and its place in society today. It discusses Australia's first hospital-based medical unit which officially opened in 1978 and is now called the Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia. The future of the adolescent into adulthood is crucially dependent on the care given early on, addressing both the physical as well as mental and behavioural conditions imperative of stellar care. Although...