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Journal of Adolescent Health

Volume 55, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 458-462
Journal of Adolescent Health

Presidential address
Celebrating Progress in Adolescent Health and Optimism for the Future

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Public health

In the United States, the leading cause of death and injury among adolescents is from motor vehicle crashes [1], [2]. Over the past 25 years, the death rate from motor vehicle crashes among both male and female teens between 15 and 19 years of age has decreased >50%, from 33 to 13 deaths per 100,000 [2]. Over the past 25 years, the percentage of high school students who smoked one or more cigarettes in the previous 30 days rose to a high of 36% but has since dropped by half to 18% [3]. Over the

Future Challenges

It is important to recognize and celebrate that in each of these areas, we have made important progress or seen important change because it demonstrates what can be achieved. And yet there is still much work to be done [50]. For example, motor vehicle crashes still cause one-third of all teen deaths in the United States, and motor vehicle–related deaths remain very high in many countries across the globe [2], [30], [51]. We still have about one in five teens who are current smokers in the

The Role of Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine—Past and Future

The Society for Adolescent Medicine held its first annual conference 45 years ago, and this is an organization formed by a small group of physicians who recognized that the needs of adolescents were not being met [48]. The organization has always recognized the important role of health care and medicine in supporting adolescent health. Over the past 25 years, it has increasingly recognized that in addition to health care, adolescent health is influenced—and can be improved—by efforts involving

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