Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing

Autor: Russell M Viner, Wendy Baldwin, Monika Arora, Elissa Kennedy, Chris Bonell, Susan M Sawyer, Dakshitha Wickremarathne, Suzanne Petroni, Nicola J. Reavley, Terry McGovern, Rima Afifi, Nicholas B. Allen, Jane Ferguson, Jaqueline Mahon, Amitabh Mattoo, John S. Santelli, Ali H. Mokdad, Judith Diers, Jane Waldfogel, Peter Azzopardi, Fred M. Ssewamala, Carmen Barroso, George C Patton, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Adesegun O. Fatusi, David Ross, Vikram Patel, Jing Fang, Ritsuko Kakuma, Kikelomo Taiwo
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Gerontology
Male
Economic growth
Urban Population
Intimate Partner Violence
Global Health
0302 clinical medicine
Residence Characteristics
Global health
Medicine
Mental Competency
030212 general & internal medicine
Marriage
Parent-Child Relations
Child
Social policy
Reproductive health
Medicine(all)
education.field_of_study
Informed Consent
General Medicine
Reproductive Health
Sexual Partners
Educational Status
Health education
Female
International development
Adolescent health
Adolescent
Substance-Related Disorders
Population
Decision Making
Adolescent Health
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Article
Peer Group
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
Age Distribution
030225 pediatrics
Humans
Obesity
education
Developing Countries
Occupational Health
School Health Services
Health Services Needs and Demand
business.industry
Developed Countries
Malnutrition
Puberty
Global strategy
Criminals
Adolescent Health Services
Wounds and Injuries
business
Zdroj: The Lancet. 387(10036):2423-2478
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(16)00579-1
Popis: Unprecedented global forces are shaping the health and wellbeing of the largest generation of 10 to 24 year olds in human history. Population mobility, global communications, economic development, and the sustainability of ecosystems are setting the future course for this generation and, in turn, humankind. At the same time, we have come to new understandings of adolescence as a critical phase in life for achieving human potential. Adolescence is characterised by dynamic brain development in which the interaction with the social environment shapes the capabilities an individual takes forward into adult life.3 During adolescence, an individual acquires the physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and economic resources that are the foundation for later life health and wellbeing. These same resources define trajectories into the next generation. Investments in adolescent health and wellbeing bring benefits today, for decades to come, and for the next generation. Better childhood health and nutrition, extensions to education, delays in family formation, and new technologies offer the possibility of this being the healthiest generation of adolescents ever. But these are also the ages when new and different health problems related to the onset of sexual activity, emotional control, and behaviour typically emerge. Global trends include those promoting unhealthy lifestyles and commodities, the crisis of youth unemployment, less family stability, environmental degradation, armed conflict, and mass migration, all of which pose major threats to adolescent health and wellbeing. Adolescents and young adults have until recently been overlooked in global health and social policy, one reason why they have had fewer health gains with economic development than other age groups. The UN Secretary-General's Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health initiated, in September, 2015, presents an outstanding opportunity for investment in adolescent health and wellbeing. However, because of limits to resources and technical capacities at both the national and the global level, effective response has many challenges. The question of where to make the most effective investments is now pressing for the international development community. This Commission outlines the opportunities and challenges for investment at both country and global levels (panel 1).
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