Canadian Association for Adolescent Health
- Canadian Association for Adolescent Health
The Canadian Association for Adolescent Health (also known in French as l'Association Canadienne pour la Santé des Adolescents) is a multidisciplinary, non-profit advocacy organization based in Montreal, Quebec which promotes interest in health issues having to do with adolescents between 10 and 19 years of age. [youthwork.com, " [http://www.youthwork.com/healthmisc.html Miscellaneous health information] ", retrieved 13 February 2008] The organization publishes a journal and sponsors conferences for the purpose of setting standards in adolescent healthcare across Canada. Founded in 1993 by Jean-Yves Frappier, a pediatrician at Sainte-Justine University Health Center, [recherche-sainte-justine.qc.ca, " [http://www.recherche-sainte-justine.qc.ca/en/chercheurs/85 Jean-Yves Frappier, biography] ", retrieved 13 February 2008] the CAAH was incorporated in 1996. [acsa-caah.ca, " [http://www.acsa-caah.ca/en/Home.aspx ACSA-CAAH website] ", retrieved 13 February 2008]
References and notes
Eternals links
* [http://www.acsa-caah.ca/ CAAH website]
* [http://www.acsa-caah.ca/Portals/0/Member/PDF/en/acsa/constitution.pdf ACSA-CAAH constitution]
*" [http://www.youngandhealthy.ca/caah/ Young and Healthy] ", CAAH's youth website
* [http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080130/CPACTUALITES/80129265/6685/CPACTUEL Sex and teens: Between caution and abandon] (in French)
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