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Article de Périodique
Health of the world's adolescents: a synthesis of internationally comparable data. Series "Adolescent Health" 4 (2012)
Auteur(s) :
G. C. PATTON ;
C. COFFEY ;
C. CAPPA ;
D. CURRIE ;
L. RILEY ;
F. GORE ;
L. DEGENHARDT ;
D. RICHARDSON ;
N. M. ASTONE ;
A. O. SANGOWAWA ;
A. MOKDAD ;
J. FERGUSON
Article en page(s) :
1665-1675
Sous-type de document :
Revue de la littérature / Literature review
Refs biblio. :
81
Domaine :
Plusieurs produits / Several products
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Discipline :
SAN (Santé publique / Public health)
Thésaurus géographique
INTERNATIONAL
Thésaurus mots-clés
COMPARAISON
;
ADOLESCENT
;
SANTE
;
EPIDEMIOLOGIE DESCRIPTIVE
;
GEOGRAPHIE
;
ALCOOL
;
TABAC
;
CANNABIS
Note générale :
• Editorial: Putting adolescents at the centre of health and development, p. 1561.
• Comment: Seizing the opportunities of adolescent health. Resnick M.D., Catalano R.F., Sawyer S.M., Viner R., Patton G.C., p. 1564-1567.
• Comment: Adolescent health in the 21st century. Blum R.W., Bastos F.I.P.M., Kabiru C.W., Le L.C., p. 1567-1568.
• Comment: Seizing the opportunities of adolescent health. Resnick M.D., Catalano R.F., Sawyer S.M., Viner R., Patton G.C., p. 1564-1567.
• Comment: Adolescent health in the 21st century. Blum R.W., Bastos F.I.P.M., Kabiru C.W., Le L.C., p. 1567-1568.
Résumé :
Adolescence and young adulthood offer opportunities for health gains both through prevention and early clinical intervention. Yet development of health information systems to support this work has been weak and so far lagged behind those for early childhood and adulthood. With falls in the number of deaths in earlier childhood in many countries and a shifting emphasis to non-communicable disease risks, injuries, and mental health, there are good reasons to assess the present sources of health information for young people. We derive indicators from the conceptual framework for the Series on adolescent health and assess the available data to describe them. We selected indicators for their public health importance and their coverage of major health outcomes in young people, health risk behaviours and states, risk and protective factors, social role transitions relevant to health, and health service inputs. We then specify definitions that maximise international comparability. Even with this optimisation of data usage, only seven of the 25 indicators, covered at least 50% of the world's adolescents. The worst adolescent health profiles are in sub-Saharan Africa, with persisting high mortality from maternal and infectious causes. Risks for non-communicable diseases are spreading rapidly, with the highest rates of tobacco use and overweight, and lowest rates of physical activity, predominantly in adolescents living in low-income and middle-income countries. Even for present global health agendas, such as HIV infection and maternal mortality, data sources are incomplete for adolescents. We propose a series of steps that include better coordination and use of data collected across countries, greater harmonisation of school-based surveys, further development of strategies for socially marginalised youth, targeted research into the validity and use of these health indicators, advocating for adolescent-health information within new global health initiatives, and a recommendation that every country produce a regular report on the health of its adolescents.
Affiliation :
Department of Paediatrics, and Centre for Health Policy, Programs and
Economics, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
Economics, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia