Bullying and subjective health among adolescents at schools in Latvia and Lithuania.

Objectives: To investigate the prevalence of bullying among adolescents in Latvia and Lithuania and to study its association with self-rated health, health complaints, and life satisfaction.

Methods: A total of 3417 students in Latvia and 5626 in Lithuania were surveyed using the Health Behaviour Study among School-aged Children 2001/2002 (HBSC) questionnaire and research protocol.

Results: Being a victim, bully, or bully/victim was reported by 30.

Age-related health risk behaviors of adolescents with physical disabilities.

Objective: To investigate age-related differences in health risk behaviors in 11-12-, 13-14-, and 15-16-year-old adolescents with physical disabilities.

Method: Health survey data from 319 adolescents with physical disabilities were compared with the same data from 7,020 adolescents in a national sample.

Results: Significant age-related differences were found for having tried smoking, smoking, having tasted an alcoholic drink, having been drunk, and using prescription drugs for recreational purposes.

Material deprivation and self-rated health: a multilevel study of adolescents from 22 European and North American countries.

This cross-sectional study examined the combined and interactive effects of material deprivation and area deprivation on adolescent self-rated health, using data from the World Health Organization collaborative study 'Health Behaviour in School-aged Children 1997/1998'. Included in the present study were 94,915 11-15-year-old students from a total of 22 European and North American countries. Multilevel logistic regression analyses revealed significant additive main effects of individual material deprivation and area deprivation, but not interactive effects.

Children's perceptions of strategies for resolving community health problems.

We examine children's perceptions of the strategies they would use to resolve community health problems. Qualitative analysis using a grounded theory approach showed that 9- to 10-year-old children could conceptualize a range of solutions to hypothetical community health problems. Children's responses reflected an egocentric perspective, one that was centered on self and peers acting on short-term solutions to the immediate problem.