In summary, addressing adolescent health requires a multifaceted approach that integrates robust data, a skilled workforce, and inclusive policymaking.
📘Essential reading on International #DayOfTheGirl Child!
Commentaries & articles in @JAdolesHealth supplement on progress, challenges & opportunities for improving adolescents' #SRHR.
👉https://t.co/6oo24Jerb7
Happy #DayOfTheGirl!
WHO highlights 6 priority action areas to improve adolescent health & #SRHR.
🔹prevent teenage pregnancy
🔹end harmful practices
🔹reduce #STIs
🔹end #VAWG
🔹improve mental health
🔹promote nutrition
Find out more▶️https://t.co/NEeIRBmWg6
How can we support adolescents affected by adversity? 1. Multideterministic causes of outcomes require holistic systems based responses 2. Community, family and peers are key to success 3. Include adolescents meaningfully and song the policy cycle @WiltonPark
🗓️ Our dialogue this week aims to promote a paradigm shift in how adolescents affected by adversity, violence & traumatic situations are viewed & dealt with in rehabilitation, recovery & reintegration processes.
🤝 @UNODC I @UNICEF I @save_children
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Fragmented policy landscape for adolescents means the most vulnerable fall through the cracks. We need more heart put into how we care for children who face adversity. ❤️@WiltonPark@UNODC@saveinter@UNICEF
What’s missing in the design of transformational public policy for adolescents? Their voices. An amazing group @WiltonPark agrees it’s time for change. Great discussions and we even had time to smell the roses
With 1.3 billion adolescents in the world today - that's 16 per cent of society- it's an important topic @WiltonPark this week. We'll be asking how the latest scientific findings on how the adolescent brain develops are important for how we treat our 10-18 year olds.
Green fields and golden sunshine @WiltonPark makes for inspiring discussions- what is the paradigm shift needed to tackle adversity in adolescents? @UNICEF@WHO@UNODC@savechildrenuk
Delighted to join the #GANN meeting this week and discuss among other things conceptual frameworks for #adolescent#nutrition- great work being done by the network on this understudied area- got to introduce the #ycheck check-up study #Zimbabwe@BanatiPrerna@ISEG_LSHTM
Are you an individual and/or organisations interested in co-designing and implementing a longitudinal qualitative study on #SRH?
We are requesting expression of interest for for country research partners in Mali, Niger and Sierra Leone.
Find out more 👇https://t.co/dBb5LtiORG
Passionate about making a difference in the lives of #adolescentgirls, with girls? Can you manage projects confidently, build diverse networks & support evidence-based programming for🧡💫 meaningful change? Join our team: https://t.co/VvbHI8kAcz @rgrahamgoulder