PREVALENCE OF VIOLENCE AMONG A SAMPLE OF ADOLESCENTS ATTIANDING PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTERES IN AL-HILLA CITY
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https://doi.org/10.36320/ajb/v10.i3.8118Keywords:
Adolescent, violence, socio-demographic characteristicAbstract
Background: adolescents represent substantial majority in all societies around the world, adolescence is the period which is witnessing a lot of changes on the physical, emotional and social level. To understand how these changes affect on the adolescents and identify health problems and behaviors that lead to these problems in the future and helps to develop a new generation free from physical, psychological and social diseases, by finding the best ways to reduce and deal with them .
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