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Childhood and the Entry into Adolescence: A Pivotal Period in Health-Related Behaviors and Prevention

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Defining Prevention Science

Part of the book series: Advances in Prevention Science ((Adv. Prevention Science))

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Across definitions, a critical component of health is that it is more than just the absence of disease. At the same time, it has been much easier to define the experience of disease than it is the experience of “physical, mental, and social well-being.” Hence, most industrialized societies use systems for tracking morbidity and mortality as indicators of population health. When population data are parsed by demographic characteristics like age, gender, and ethnicity, childhood and the entry into adolescence are periods of relative good health with low mortality in comparison to younger and older ages. Despite the absence of serious disease and death, the entry into adolescence has been the target of numerous health-focused preventive interventions (Millstein, Petersen, & Nightingale, 1993; Ozer & Irwin, 2009). The rationale behind these initiatives is not based on current health per se as much as it is based on the critical aspects of development that occur as children become adolescents.

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Graber, J.A., Hill, J.C., Saczawa, M.E. (2014). Childhood and the Entry into Adolescence: A Pivotal Period in Health-Related Behaviors and Prevention. In: Sloboda, Z., Petras, H. (eds) Defining Prevention Science. Advances in Prevention Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7424-2_3

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