Edited by Susan G. Millstein, Anne C. Petersen, and Elena O. Nightingale. 403 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. $60. ISBN 0-19-507454-8.
The past several decades have seen growing interest in and concernabout the health of adolescents. The initial focus on describingthe health problems of young people and reactive treatment strategieshas recently evolved into growing attention to the preventionof disease and, even more recently, to the broader agenda ofhealth promotion. In Promoting the Health of Adolescents, editorsMillstein, Petersen, and Nightingale have pulled together thework of an impressive group of contributors, both scholars andclinicians, to review the current understanding of health-promotionefforts among adolescents. The result is an interesting, well-integratedwork that will be of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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