Abstract
The World Health Organization has produced a multimedia, interactive online report
entitled Health for the World's Adolescents: A Second Chance in the Second Decade. The report provides an overview of global and regional estimates of adolescent mortality
and disability-adjusted life years, disaggregated by age, sex, and cause, and country-level
data on health-related behaviors and conditions among adolescents. It outlines the
reasons why adolescence is a unique period in the life course requiring special attention
and synthesizes current thinking about the determinants that underlie the differences
in health status between adolescents. For the first time, this new report pulls together
recommendations and guidance from across the World Health Organization relating to
interventions directed to a range of priority health problems, including use of alcohol
and other psychoactive substances, AIDS, injuries, mental health, nutrition, sexual
and reproductive health, tobacco use, and violence, focusing on four core functions
of the health sector: supportive policies, service provision, strategic information,
and working with other sectors. The report concludes with 10 key actions that would
strengthen national responses to adolescent health, and outlines the approaches that
are needed to overcome the obstacles to accelerating evidence-informed actions to
improve the health of adolescents worldwide—with all the benefits that this will have
for public health in the present and across the life course, for this generation and
the next.
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