irregular for years after menarche. The current average age of menarche among well-nourished girls is about 12 years‚ 8 months. According to my personal experience of menarche‚ I remember my menarche was happened about 12 years old. (The first grade of Secondary School) Luckily‚ it happened during my summer holiday and I was staying at home. When I had menarche‚ I shouted out loud; I was frightened and didn’t know what I should do‚ because I was bleeding without stopped. My mum was not here and my housekeeper
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Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the cumulative incidence for the general population of the United States as 123.9 cases per 100‚000 population (CDC‚ 2016). This rate is not distributed equally across age groups. Adolescents ages 15-19 have one of the highest rates of infection with 341.8
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Imagine yourself walking in and finding a friend or a loved one hanging from a rope or seeing them dead‚ lying next to an empty bottle of pills or in a pool of blood‚ with a razor in their hand. Suicide is not rare to society today. Every 14.2 minutes someone in the United States dies by suicide. Suicide has become a neglected subject‚ in my opinion‚ because it is not an easy subject to talk about. Many people fear losing a loved one‚ especially if they feel that they could’ve done helped that person
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material PRIMARY AND SECONDERY SOURCES OF LEGAL RESEARCH Because the law is so varied‚ there are many different resources available to help locate the law‚ each with a specific use and specific limitations. The major types of legal research resources are primary sources of law and secondary sources of law. Primary sources of law are the actual law itself — constitutions‚ statutes‚ administrative regulations‚ ordinances‚ and court opinions. Anything that creates the law is a primary source of law
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every age are becoming more susceptible to various health adversities. These diseases are preventing children from reaching their full potential‚ limiting how well they grow and develop. Diabetes‚ which when thought about years ago‚ was only associated with the elderly. However‚ in the last 30 years‚ diabetes have been associated with children including babies. In an attempt to go beyond commonly shared assumptions about the up surge in adolescent diabetes‚ studies already conducted focused on everything;
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Adolescents are a transitional stage of physical and physiological development that occurs between puberty and legal adulthood.1 It is a period of multiple transitions involving education‚ training‚ employment and unemployment‚ as well as transition from one living circumstance to another.2 The behavioral patterns during these periods determine their health status and their risks for developing chronic diseases in adulthood.3 Adolescents are generally healthy but several important public health and
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VIOLENCE PREVENTION‚ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA‚ RIVERSIDE Fact Sheet YOUTH SUICIDE by Michiko Otsuki‚ Tia Kim‚ and Paul Peterson Introduction Youth suicide is a major public health problem in the United States today. Each year in the U.S.‚ thousands of teenagers commit suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15-24 year olds‚ and the fifth leading cause of death for 5-14 year olds. (American Foundation of Suicide Prevention [AFSP]‚ 2010; National Center for Health Statistics
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Health Promotion Project By Kendrell Dublin Devry University Injuries and violence are widespread in society. Both unintentional injuries and those caused by acts of violence are among the top 15 killers for Americans of all ages. Many people accept them as “accidents‚” “acts of fate‚” or as “part of life.” However‚ most events resulting in injury‚ disability‚ or death are predictable and preventable. The Injury and Violence Prevention objectives for 2020 represent
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Levels of Prevention Promotion of health and disease prevention is an important factor in health care. There are three levels of prevention: primary‚ secondary‚ and tertiary. Primary prevention refers to interventions that promote optimal health and prevent the occurrence of disease‚ injury‚ or disability. Primary prevention advocates health promotion. Primary prevention includes health promotion‚ environmental protection‚ and specific protection against disease or injury. In primary prevention
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Suicide The natural end of every human life is death. Some people‚ for reasons that have never been fully understood‚ choose to end their own lives. This is called suicide‚ which means literally "self-killing." According to Dryden-Edwards (2013)‚ Suicide is the process of purposely ending one’s own life. The way societies view suicide varies widely according to culture and religion. For example‚ many Western cultures‚ as well as mainstream Judaism‚ Islam‚ and Christianity tend to view killing
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