Joe Ward

General Paediatrician and NIHR Clinical Lecturer researching health inequalities, adolescent health and child and young person mortality.

[Joe Ward @_joe_ward]

Paper out today in @TheLancet led by Pete Azzopardi, Jessica Kerr and Kate Francis

The unfinished agenda of communicable diseases in children and adolescents

https://t.co/TwuP9RIKNF

[Joe Ward @_joe_ward]

@PHardelid @ich_ppp @UCLchildhealth @ucl @m_heys @CelineLewis23 Congratulations!! Great news

[Resolution Foundation @resfoundation]

NEW RF by @_louisemurphy - Left behind: Exploring the prevalence of youth worklessness due to ill health in different parts of the UK https://t.co/Q36DI0iVup

[UNICEF Innocenti @UNICEFInnocenti]

Violence against adolescent girls often starts much earlier in life - this has long term impacts.

What kinds of interventions can help us #EndViolence against adolescent girls?

Find out in our BLOG with @CIatUCT @GAGE_programme @yloxford ⬇️

[JAMA Pediatrics @JAMAPediatrics]

Out-of-pocket spending for non–birth-related pediatric hospitalizations can be substantial and varied by factors such as hospitalization timing, medical complexity, and insurance benefit design. https://t.co/8VyjXQpEiP

[Joe Ward @_joe_ward]

@lornafraser10 @RCPCHtweets Also heading to Glasgow today- hope to see you there!

[ADC @ADC_BMJ]

Increased in new onset diabetes and presenting more sick during covid

More severe DKA and PICU

Retrospective multicentric 🇬🇧🇮🇪 49 PED
Another great report from PERUKI
@damian_roland @mdlyttle
https://t.co/99j1oVZkT8

[The Lancet Youth @LancetYouth]

We’re back!

Shifting to action - a second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing

Read more: https://t.co/NRjqgnthoK

#LancetYouth

[Susan Sawyer AM @susansawyer01]

Matching actions to need. Thanks to Pete Azzopardi & Caroline Kabiru for leading a round table with Kenyan policy & program leaders on local adolescent health data. Thanks @aphrc for hosting this Lancet Commission side event @MelbourneGlobal @MCRI_for_kids @UniMelbMDHS

[Susan Sawyer AM @susansawyer01]

Capacity building in action: our two 'minute keepers' on the 2016 Lancet Commission for Adolescent Health are commissioners in their own right for the 2nd Lancet Commission. Great to have ⁦@jasonmnagata⁩ and ⁦@_joe_ward⁩ on the team! ⁦@LancetYouth⁩

[The Lancet Youth @LancetYouth]

Kicking off our 3-day meeting in Nairobi, hosted by @aphrc.
Ready for lively discussions, updates, and getting ready for next steps - drafting the report.
Stay tuned for updates.

[Joe Ward @_joe_ward]

‘A good day’: FDA approves world’s first RSV vaccine https://t.co/7Ov5NNHpZV

[Ingrid Wolfe @ingridjohanna66]

Rising child and adolescent mortality in the US.

Among 10-19 yr olds, suicide 69.5% rise, homicide 32.7% rise 2013-2019. Marked differences between ethnic groups

Deaths of despair: access to firearms, opiates, deepening mental health crisis.

https://t.co/gAAe2JIZkN



[Sarah Eisen @EisenSarah]

Pleased to see this out https://t.co/pNM6TeOrFr - our approach to assessment of asylum seeking families - for use in ED, clinic or anywhere else you encounter these vulnerable families. @uclh @NuriaSanchezCl1 @LongleyNicky #inclusionhealth

[JAMA Pediatrics @JAMAPediatrics]

#COVID19–associated orphanhood and caregiver death has left an estimated 10.5 million children bereaved of their parents and caregivers. https://t.co/hJ7xqndtNc #Research

[Rachel Tricks @racheltricks]

The @TARNaudit Severe Injury in Children 2019-20 reflects in real numbers @russellviner’s presentation this morning at #RCPCHyouth22 with case fatality counts for asphyxia being the highest amongst all causes- for the first time since 2012 more than RTC’s. https://t.co/gUiLcZ4kSs

[Sean Monaghan @DrSeanMon]

The rate of increase of eating problems in particular over the last few years is alarming to say the least. Data via @russellviner.

#RCPCHyouth22

[RCPCH @RCPCHtweets]

The changing adolescence in the UK from Professor @russellviner #RCPCHyouth22

[Prof Candace Currie, OBE @candacecurrie]

How #safe do #girls & #youngwomen in #UK feel? National survey of girls & adolescent women l in 2022 finds ~ 1 in 5 don’t feel safe in #school with girls of colour aged 11 to 16 less likely than girls who are White to feel safe at school (65% compared to 70%). Furthermore 👇

[The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health @LancetChildAdol]

To grow up in #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean is to know inequity, injustice, and hardship... Yet, these issues are given insufficient attention

Our new Editorial on #adolescents in the LAC region - the challenges they face and the urgent actions needed

https://t.co/aMmtg9QOXU