Evelyn Eisenstein

• Professor (Associate) at Rio de Janeiro State University

In this commentary, we hope to offer examples of how technology is building connections and agencies are working creatively to reduce disparities in digital technology access to improve the lives of children and adolescents across the globe.

Adolescence is the unique period of growth when internal factors, like genetics and inheritance, are influenced by external factors, like nutrition and psychosocial determinants associated with the maturational processes. The pubertal development with height, weight, sexual maturity, and other biological characteristics can suffer retardation due t...

Purpose of the Review The purpose of the review is to describe the Brazilian Telemedicine University Network RUTE concerning the Special Interest Group of Children and Adolescents, the new SIG-COVID19-BR activities for continuing medical education, and to update relevant information regarding diagnosis and treatment, using digital technologies. Re...

This chapter reviews relevant major international agreements on refugee and migrant rights particularly those pertinent to children, adolescents, and young people. Current international prevalence and scope is reviewed with a focus on irregular migrants and forced displacement, the underlying factors driving migration including poverty, ethnic disc...

Worldwide, lifestyle and resource disparities among adolescents contribute to unmet health needs, which have crucial present and future public health implications for both adolescents and broader communities. Risk of infection among adolescents is amplified by biological, behavioral, and environmental factors; however, infectious diseases to which...

A call to action to improve adolescent vaccination globally

Sexuality, an evolutionary process that lasts a lifetime, is intimately linked to biological, psychological and social development of individual, and this contributes to the shaping of personality. In the past quarter century, concomitant with the progress of the technological revolution and globalization, great changes occurred in lifestyles and c...

To review the scientific literature on pediatric abusive head trauma as a form of physical abuse against infants and young children, highlighting the prevalence, signs and symptoms, consequences, risk factors for its occurrence, and prevention strategies. The MEDLINE, SciELO, LILACS, and Web of Science databases from 2001 to 2012 were reviewed, usi...

Objective: This article aims to address some practical issues regarding the orientation of contraception in adolescence highlighting the medical eligibility criteria. Methods: A research of scientific articles from the SciELo and BVS databases yielded selection of articles which were analyzed using thematic content analyses. Conclusion: The best co...

Objective: Technologies of the digital era, appliances, websites and Internet programs offer adolescents a new perspective of the world around them, if used with care and respect, but it can also turn to be a threat and present health risks, when the limits between what is real and virtual, or between private and public, or what is legal or illegal...

Objective: The question of the adolescents and young people rights to health is intertwined with the issue of ethics to health for this target population of 1.8 billion people globally. Decisions about care, support, research and community programs need to focus on law and ethics on the part of health professionals and all who participate in the ma...

This issue of Adolescent Medicine State of the Art Reviews (AM:STARs) focuses on a variety of ethical and legal issues that practitioners may encounter during the delivery of adolescent health care. A panel of authors has been assembled that not only explores these issues, but also provides the reader with sound reasoning and proposed solutions.

This article presents a discussion of the human rights declarations that address adolescent health, including reference to specific articles in the declarations that address this population; examples of ethical issues related to health that are faced by adolescents, their families, and providers who care for them; and ethical principles and framewo...

Intra-family violence, sexual abuse, commercial sexual exploitation and childhood and adolescent neglect are all consequences of violence and social abandonment that are intensified by inequalities, poverty and social deprivation. Relevant data for 68 million Brazilian children and youth population 0-19 years of age are presented (40% of the total...

Since 1990, Brazil, as a signatory to the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child, has had a statute protecting the rights of children to health, education and safety from harm. This chapter describes how the different forms of child abuse and neglect have been defined in the years following the implemenation of the statute and what i...

Increasingly health personnel are called on to address the needs of adolescents affected by armed conflict. Adolescents suffer as combatants, direct and indirect casualties, as dependents of combatants, and as citizens of countries whose resources are destroyed and/or consumed by war and other forms of organized violence. Survivors of war, ex-child...

To evaluate the association between pubertal gynecomastia and body mass index for age. A sample of 109 cases was selected from the adolescent outpatient health unit, with ages between 11 and 19 years old at Pedro Ernesto University Hospital. Anthropometric measures of weight, height, mammary horizontal diameter and sexual maturation stage were coll...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between pubertal gynecomastia and body mass index for age. METHODS: A sample of 109 cases was selected from the adolescent outpatient health unit, with ages between 11 and 19 years old at Pedro Ernesto University Hospital. Anthropometric measures of weight, height, mammary horizontal diameter and sexual matura...

Os autores apresentam o genograma como um instrumento clínico de trabalho para o profissional de saúde. Fundamentado na teoria sistêmica, o genograma possibilita analisar o contexto psicossocial do paciente, sua família e sua doença. Por ser um mapa relacional, facilita a visualização do contexto familiar, funcionando como uma "radiografia" psicoss...

The authors present the genogram as a clinical work tool for the health professional. Based on systemic theory, the genogram provides a psychosocial analysis of the patient's context, family and disease. As a relational map, it delivers a view of the family context and works as the patient's psychosocial "x-ray". This tool is suggested for purposes...

The increase in STI’s, unplanned pregnancy and other risks related to sexual activity is responsible for selecting young people as an important target group for intervention in terms of sexual and reproductive health. Sex education aims at developing and training attitudes and skills in young people so as to enable them to make wel linformed and he...

Focusing on international health issues in adolescent medicine, this issue of Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews is a stand-alone reference and practice tool with evidence-based reviews that detail advances in the diagnosis and management of a wide range of health problems affecting adolescents. Topics in International Health Issues in A...

Adolescent medicine was born out of scientific advances from a wide variety of disciplines, changes in societal mores and the explosion of technology that occurred during the 20th century. The past 100 years of clinical practice and research have provided a wealth of information that has improved our understanding of the biologic and physical devel...

More than half the global population is extremely poor. Many live in substandard housing, can’t read, earn barely enough to feed themselves and their families, and have few opportunities to better their circumstances. Their struggle to survive is often compounded by feelings of helplessness, terror, and despair. Although most of these people are re...

More than half of the world's population of 6 billion people is under age 25 years. Of the estimated 1.2 billion adolescents worldwide (1 in every 5 people is an adolescent), about 85% live in developing countries and the remainder in the industrialised world. Changing social, political, and economic realities are having a major and dramatic impact...

OBJECTIVE To emphasize the importance of nutrition for healthy growth and development during adolescence. METHODS 1 - National and international bibliographic review of the main anthropometric data to be used during puberty. 2 - Description of practical questions for the evaluation of the nutritional status of adolescents. 3 - Main interventions a...

Street youth are children and adolescents who express, through their bodies and lives, misery and social abandonment. Paradoxically, they are also the embodiment of resistance and survival strategies in a very unfavourable environment. The current deterioration of citizens' rights and the social inequalities reflect the consequences of vicious cycl...

A group of 168 short but otherwise normal children (group A) and 25 children deficient in growth hormone (GH) (group B) wwere studied with an exercise stimulation test to determine the expected error of this method. In group A, 125 (74.4%) had maximum GH responses greater than 15 ng/ml, 23 (13.7%) had responses between 10 and 15 ng/ml, and 20 (11.9...

Objective: To evaluate the association between pubertal gynecomastia and body mass index for age. Methods: A sample of 109 cases was selected from the adolescent outpatient health unit, with ages between 11 and 19 years old at Pedro Ernesto University Hospital. Anthropometric measures of weight, height, mammary horizontal diameter and sexual matura...

1. Médico residente do Ambulatório do Núcleo de Estudos da Saúde do Adolescente (NESA). 2. Psicóloga clínica; especialista em Psicologia Médica pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) e Medicina Psicossomática pelo Instituto de Medicina Psicossomática (IMPSIS); membro da equipe do Ambulatório de Diabetes do Hospital Universitário Pedro...

ARTIGO ORIGINAL Atualmente o sexo está tão explicitado, tão divulgado através da mídia, que parece que nada mais resta a dizer, que todo mundo sabe tudo so-bre o assunto. Pode ser na aparência, na superfície das relações humanas. As pessoas fingem que sa-bem de tudo, mas os adolescentes estão cada vez mais confusos e sem saber como se proteger de u...

O acompanhamento longitudinal da evolucao do crescimento e do estado nutricional de 122 adolescentes de baixas condicoes socio-economicas, que apresentaram baixa estatura e atraso puberal de causa nutricional foi realizado no ambulatorio de atencao secundaria do Nucleo de Estudos da Saude do Adolescente do Hospital Pedro Ernesto da Universidade do...