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Type 2 diabetes, also known as adult-onset diabetes, commonly affects adults but can also affect children and is due to the body’s inability to respond to insulin appropriately. Both forms lead to elevated blood glucose levels which can lead to the following complications in kids: bed-wetting, significant thirst, weight loss, and increased ...
Adolescent health, or youth health, is the range of approaches to preventing, detecting or treating young people's health and well-being. [ 1 ] The term adolescent and young people are often used interchangeably, as are the terms Adolescent Health [ 2 ] and Youth Health.
For some types of cancer, young adults may have better outcomes if treated with pediatric, rather than adult, treatment regimens. Young adults who have a cancer that typically occurs in children and adolescents, such as brain tumors, leukemia, osteosarcoma, and Ewing sarcoma, may fare better if treated by a pediatric oncologist.
She received treatment in the mid-1990s, years before the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, at a time when people could still be denied health care for preexisting conditions such as cancer.
America's Health Rankings started in 1990 and is the longest-running annual assessment of the nation's health on a state-by-state basis. It is founded on the World Health Organization holistic definition of health, which says health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Tennessee's governor has approved legislation designed to block adults from helping minors get an abortion or receive gender-affirming care without parental consent, proposals that are both likely ...
Poverty among children and young people is influenced by poverty in adults that causes a continuous cycle if not prevented. Impacts that poverty have on the youth include lack of access to education and housing, discrimination, mental health problems, and malnutrition. This creates a problem in increased crime rates and social issues which has ...