Physical and Mental Health in Childhood and Adolescence: Building Foundation for Healthy Living
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Exercise and Health-Related Quality of Life".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2027 | Viewed by 166
Editor
Interests: health behaviors; health education; health promotion; cardiometabolic health; physical activity; sedentary behavior; sleep; eating habits; children; adolescents; young adults
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Dear Colleagues,
The literature presents strong evidence that chronic conditions manifested in adulthood result from complex interactions among various behaviors and risk factors that may originate in childhood and adolescence. Therefore, children and adolescents who exhibit these behaviors and risk factors are, with increasing age, more likely to develop and experience worsening of chronic conditions, including cardiovascular, metabolic, respiratory, musculoskeletal, oncological, neurodegenerative, and psychoemotional diseases. Thus, the early detection of behaviors and risk factors in the young population is defined as an important primary care strategy that can effectively contribute to the prevention of physical and mental health outcomes in the present and future in adulthood, reducing public health expenditures. The physical and mental health of children and adolescents is mainly influenced by lifestyle-related behaviors such as physical activity, sedentary behavior, dietary habits, sleep, consumption of addictive substances, interpersonal relationships, and stress, among others. In addition, the clustering or combination of these behaviors may have positive or negative additive effects on biological markers that impact physical and mental health outcomes. This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health provides an opportunity to publish high-quality research findings that relate behaviors and risk factors to physical and mental health outcomes in children and adolescents. We are particularly interested in innovative interventions targeting these outcomes in young populations from different cultures and regions of the world. We also welcome observational studies examining longitudinal, moderated, and mediated relationships. Other types of accepted manuscripts include systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and methodological articles.
Prof. Dr. Dartagnan Guedes
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- health promotion
- health education
- health outcome
- lifestyle interventions
- health behaviors
- biological risk factors
- psychoemotional markers
- health outcome tracking
- children
- adolescents
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