CommentaryMapping a Global Agenda for Adolescent Health
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Current global health perspectives
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent commitments made by 189 governments in the year 2000 to coordinate responses across health and other areas relevant to the elimination of poverty. The MDGs also provide an entry point for the consideration of adolescent health by designating targets particularly relevant to the youth. These include literacy of 15–24-year-olds (MDG 2); the ratio of females to males in primary, secondary, and tertiary education (MDG 3); unemployment rates among
Beyond mortality: growing a clearer global picture of adolescent health
Besides the data available on global mortality among adolescents and young people, what other data is required to build a global picture [13]? Mortality is best considered as the tip of an iceberg [20]. For example, mortality alone is unlikely to capture patterns of sublethal injuries, their potential for life-long disabilities, and risk factors for targeting injury prevention [14]. These limitations extend to other leading health problems in young people. Annual mortality rates do not reflect
Next steps
Although there are considerable challenges in making international comparisons even in countries with similar levels of income, these data collections have added to the available global picture, and the benefits are evident in a series of recent publications on adolescent health and development [5], [9], [10], [37], [38]. Such reports have provided opportunities to frame the arguments for investment in adolescent health. Further information is required for any sustained investment in this
Acknowledgments
This paper has drawn on discussion held at meeting in September 2009, at the Institute of Child Health, University of London. The meeting was supported by the Institute of Child Health and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. A summary of that meeting and a listing of participants are available at http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/academicunits/general_and_adolescent_paediatrics/Lancet%20Adolescent%20health%20group. The authors would like to acknowledge the helpful comments of many of those
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