Category: Child & Youth Health
Upcoming free child car seat check-up events in King County
Public Health – Seattle & King County is hosting four free child car seat check-up events over the late spring and summer, starting in Newcastle on May 31.
Teens have unsupervised access to prescription drugs
The majority of surveyed teens who were prescribed medications, including those with abuse potential, had unsupervised access to them in the home.
CDC takes a closer look at kids’ mental health
Somewhere between 13 and 20 percent of kids in the United States experience some sort of mental illness. That adds up to millions of children suffering from disorders like ADHD, depression, autism and illicit drug use. The total annual cost of the illnesses?
About $247 billion a year.
Learn about summer safety at “Safe Kids Day” events – May 18
The Washington State Safe Kids Coalition invites parents to take part in Safe Kids Day on Saturday, May 18. Local coalitions are holding several events across the state to help parents learn ways to keep kids.
Children, teens should not use tanning lamps – FDA
indoor tanners are 75 percent more likely to develop melanoma than those who have never tanned indoors, and the risk increases with use.
Teens overeat at Subway, too
Adolescents are just as likely to consume too many calories at Subway, which they considered a healthy dining option, as at McDonald’s.
Seattle Children’s doctor offers spring safety tips for parents and kids
The days are getting longer, the weather is getting warmer and kids are spending more time outdoors. But with spring also comes the occasional bump, bruise, bite, rash and fall. How can parents help their kids avoid injury?
Teens and Sexual Assault: Developmentally Delayed Teens
Developmentally delayed teens are at a much higher risk of sexual assault than their non-delayed peers; the numbers are both depressing and well-validated.
Teens and Sexual Assault, Part 8: The Media’s Response to the Steubenville Convictions
By Jen Brown, RN, BSN This article first appeared on Seattle Children’s Teenology 101 blog. I thought Part 7 was my last post in the series, but the media response to the sentencing of the two rapists in the Steubenville case has been so outrageous that I’m going to tack on a postscript here. One of the [...]
Teens and Sexual Assault, Part 6: Sexual Assault Within A Relationship
When we think of teens being sexually assaulted, we often think of stranger/ acquaintance rape, but teens can and are sexually assaulted by their romantic partners. This can occur even if they have consented to sex in the past . . . . Consenting to one episode of sexual contact does not mean that there is blanket consent for sexual consent at all times.
Federal judge strikes down age limits on ‘morning-after’ pill
A federal judge has ruled that the morning-after pill for emergency contraception must be made available over the counter to girls 16 and under. The ruling could end a more than decade-long battle over how easy or difficult it should be for teenage girls to obtain emergency contraception. The ruling would also make it easier for older women to obtain the drug because it wouldn’t have to be kept behind drugstore counters anymore.
Burning issue: Tanning bed laws
Teens under 18 are banned from tanning beds in California and Vermont. In New York and now in New Jersey, home of the famously tanned cast of MTV’s Jersey Shore, the minimum age for tanning beds is 17, regardless of what a teen’s parents may say. Government run amok?
Teens and Sexual Assault, Part 3: The Age of Consent
At some point, most teens end up dating someone who is a little older or younger than them. In this article, we’re going to take a look at the legal implications of the age of consent and statutory rape.
Safety begins at home – National Public Health Week article
Did You Know?
The majority of fire-related deaths happen at home.
Falls are the leading cause of injury-related deaths among people over 65
Nine out of every 10 childhood poison exposures happens at home . . .
Preventing repeat teen births
Although teen birth rates have been falling for the last two decades, more than 365,000 teens, ages 15–19, gave birth in 2010. Teen pregnancy and childbearing can carry high health, emotional, social, and financial costs for both teen mothers and their children.
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