Guide
17 Oct 2018
This job aid works to enable health workers to respond to adolescents more effectively and with greater sensitivity. It provides precise and step-wise guidance on how to deal with adolescents when they present with a problem or concern regarding their health and development.
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This publication highlights success stories from the WHO Country Office for Ghana in six operational areas including Noncommunicable Diseases, Promoting Health through the Life Course, and Health Systems.
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This publication provides in numerical and graphical formats recent data available for adolescents and youths in the 47 countries of WHO’s African Region. It presents the outcomes of a comprehensive collection of available data on diseases and health risks that affect young people and describes the burden of health issues and the main trends of risk behaviours among young people in the region.
Strategy document
17 Oct 2018
The aim of this strategy is to provide the framework within which health service provision and other health related interventions for adolescents and young people would be coordinated and implemented to ensure efficient use of resources towards achieving the overall health sector goals for adolescents and young people.
Report
17 Oct 2018
Report from Capacity building for improving planning, implementation and monitoring & evaluation of the adolescent health interventions in the WHO African region workshop. The main objective of the workshop was to discuss and agree strategies to improve; planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of adolescent health in order to accelerate progress toward MDG 5b by achieving universal...
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This nutrient profile model is designed for use by policy-makers in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region for the purposes of restricting food marketing to children.
Publication
17 Oct 2018
The objective of this publication is to make available WHO recommendations on adolescent health in one easy-to-access document for WHO staff, policy-makers, programme managers, and health professionals. The compilation can also help better define gaps to prioritize guideline updates.
Report
17 Oct 2018
Report on the technical consultation, which brought together adolescent health experts from within WHO, other UN organizations and others, and aimed to reach consensus on a core list of indicators for measuring and reporting on adolescent health, and to explore the mechanisms for validating and/or testing new indicators for the core list agreed at the meeting.
Guide
17 Oct 2018
The purpose of this document is to serve as a guide for implementation researchers who need to document important details of implementation and context in addition to the results of their studies.
Report
17 Oct 2018
This document presents a strategy to implement programmes for maternal health, newborn and preterm care, the quality of service delivery and how to ensure patient safety, integrated management of childhood illness, early child development, adolescent health, community engagement and new and emerging threats such as the zikavirus-linked surge in microcephaly and other neurological syndromes.
Report
17 Oct 2018
Data in the report, Global accelerated action for the health of adolescents (AA-HA!): Guidance to support country implementation, reveal stark differences in causes of death when separating the adolescent group by age (younger adolescents aged 10–14 years and older ones aged 15–19 years) and by sex. The report also includes the range of interventions – from seat-belt laws to comprehensive se...
Guide
17 Oct 2018
The WHO document “Core competencies in adolescent health and development for primary care providers” aims to help countries develop competency-based educational programmes in adolescent health and development in both pre-service and in-service education.
