Child/Adolescent Health

Second-hand smoke (SHS) poses a significant global health challenge, particularly impacting children's health due to their developing bodies and the involuntary nature of their exposure. In China, the world's largest consumer and producer of tobacco, this...

Anxiety is a problem for individuals of all ages and locations, however, for young children, it is increasingly detrimental. Anxiety can disrupt critical development periods and cause problems later in life. Anxiety delays can even prevent children from...

Artist Imani Fonfield (2022) Caption As of April 2022, there have been approximately 984,000 deaths in the United States due to COVID-19; underneath this stark statistic, almost 1 out of every 450 children under the age of 18 in the United States lost a...

Artist Ines De la Morena (2022) Caption The effects of depression can be seen in its morbidity. Among teens aged 15-19, depressive disorder accounts for 13% of all years of healthy life lost due to disability (YLD). Depression itself has no mortality rate...

The Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey (CTNS) 2020 reported a vaping prevalence of 14% among youth aged 15-19, unchanged from 15% in CTNS 2019. Adolescents point to curiosity, good flavours, use by friends and family, and low cost as their primary...

Food allergies affect about 8% of children in the United States as of 2020. That is roughly 1 in 13 children, or about 5.6 million children under age 18. Not only do food allergies affect a child’s quality of life, but they also pose financial costs to...

In the United States and many other nations around the world, societies are struggling with the double burden of malnutrition: the combination of undernutrition with overweight and obesity. Hidden hunger refers to malnutrition due to insufficient...

Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, but while national rates of suicide has declined in recent years, suicides among youth have been rising. According to a 2018 study from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science...

In the U.S., 30 million people are estimated to suffer from an eating disorder, and many more display the warning signs of developing one. Eating disorders are most common in individuals in their late teens and early twenties, especially among females...

The quality of your mental health impacts how you live, work, and play. According to the 2017 Global Burden of Disease Study, depression and anxiety were among the top ten causes of disability in U.S. And for young people, particularly those between 10...