Pain in childhood and adolescence: diagnosis, smokescreen or everyday complaints?
A large number of adolescents complain of headaches, backache, abdominal pain and pain in the limbs.


CONCLUSIONS
Teachers and health personnel should be educated in health promoting strategies to avoid medicalisation of health complaints, and to promote functional ability through structural approaches.
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Department of Public Health, University of Bergen, Kalfarveien 31, 5018 Bergen, Norway. siren.haugland@isf.ulb.no
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010147:Pain Measurement; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires