Introduction:

The adolescence is a period of development and growth during which the persons establish its sense of individual identity, adaptation to more mature intellectual capacities, to the requirements of the society as for the conduct, internalization of a system of personal values and the preparation for adults' rolls. In this period there happen biological, psychological and social transformations that need of specializing attention. The results of the scientific investigation that are translated in scientific production can contribute to the improving of the integral attention to and the adolescents.

Objective:

To characterize the behavior of the scientific production related to the adolescence, bibliométricos realized a descriptive study, defining the scientific productions and investigations that tackle the main problems of health of and the Cuban adolescents.

Methods:

For the study there took the universe of the scientific production of the Cuban Magazine of Public health, Cuban Magazine of Paediatrics and Cuban Magazine of Familiar Medicine in the period 2011-2015.

Results:

The present investigation allowed to identify of harmonic form the mail between the main problems of health of and the adolescents and the subject-matters tackled in the chosen magazines.

Conclusions:

The generalization of the scientific communication favors the solution of the main problems of health identified in and the Cuban adolescents.

        · resumen en Español     · texto en Español     · Español ( pdf )