Summary of Week 1
We hope that you enjoyed learning about the health of adolescents and young people and now understand its importance to and impact upon the lifecycle. In Week 2 we move …
Course: Improving the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents: from Evidence to Action
HIV testing, treatment and care: why are adolescents special?
We now know that HIV ranks highly in the burden of disease among adolescents globally, that their rate of mortality for HIV is increasing, and that interventions need to be …
Adolescents and health services
Qualitative research can help to improve health interventions for adolescents and young people. In this video, Dr Cicely Marston uses the example of sexual and reproductive health to demonstrate why …
Health priorities: mental health
The second major health priority we’ll consider is mental health. Research has shown that mental health issues account for the most Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) lost in adolescents and …
Health priorities: HIV
The next few steps focus on programming for the health of adolescents and young people, considering why, as a demographic group, they’re special or different, and what we can do …
Health priorities: violence and injuries
In the previous step we identified a number of major health priorities that can either manifest for the first time during adolescence or have a major effect at that time …
The burden of disease in adolescents
The burden of disease is the impact of a health problem measured by mortality, morbidity and other indicators. What are the top causes of the burden of disease in adolescents? …
Demographic and epidemiological transitions
How many adolescents are there across the world? How has the health of this group changed over time? Here we describe demographic and epidemiological transitions and how they relate to …
The Physical and Neurological Development of Adolescence
As an individual transforms from a child to an adult in the period known as adolescence, they experience great physical, neurological and psychological changes. In this step we focus on …
What do we mean by adolescents and young people?
Adolescence is a crucial period of rapid development that encompasses significant changes in a person’s life, perhaps second only to that experienced in early childhood. In this step Dr Beverly …
Adolescent development: psychological and social
It’s hard not to notice the physical changes an individual experiences during adolescence. However, as Professor David Ross explains in this step, psychological and social changes are just as profound, …
Using the course
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Further study
If you’ve enjoyed this course and are keen to explore further study, why not check out our distance learning programme in Demography and Health? This course will give you a …
Next steps
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Summary of Week 6 and the course
We have now reached the end of the course. Over the past six weeks we have heard from a broad range of experts who have described the health status of …
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