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Cochrane

• Cochrane Library
  • Transition of care for adolescents from paediatric services to adult health services

Colombia

• Reproductive Health
  • Documenting good practices: scaling up the youth friendly health service model in Colombia [2015]

Ecuador

• Global Health Action
  • Mechanisms for achieving adolescent-friendly services in Ecuador: a realist evaluation approach [2012]

• Reproductive Health
  • The health status of adolescents in Ecuador and the country’s response to the need for differentiated healthcare for adolescents [2017]

Europe

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Youth-friendly health policies and services in the European Region : sharing experiences [2010]

Europe, Central Asia

• World Health Organization
  • Guidelines for Adaptation of the WHO Orientation Programme on Adolescent Health for Health-care Providers in Europe and Central Asia [2006]

India

• Reproductive Health
  • Measuring adolescent friendly health services in India: A scoping review of evaluations [2016]

International

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Financing health care for adolescents: a necessary part of universal health coverage [2015]
  • Responding to the needs of adolescents [2010]

• Journal of Adolescent Health
  • The Global Early Adolescent Study: An Exploration of the Factors that Shape Adolescence [2017]

Kenya

• BMC Medical Ethics
  • Adapting ethical guidelines for adolescent health research to street-connected children and youth in low- and middle-income countries: a case study from western Kenya [2015]

• Global Journal of Health Science
  • Preparedness of County Referral Health Facilities in Implementing Adolescent Friendly Health Services: A Case Study of Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital [2015]

Kenya, Uganda

• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • Research on Adolescent Health in Kenya and Uganda [2006]

Low and middle-income countries

• Reproductive Health
  • Do efforts to standardize, assess and improve the quality of health service provision to adolescents by government-run health services in low and middle income countries, lead to improvements in service-quality and service-utilization by adolescents? [2016]

Moldova

• BMC Public Health
  • Strategies to sustain and scale up youth friendly health services in the Republic of Moldova [2013]

• Reproductive Health
  • Assessing youth-friendly-health-services and supporting planning in the Republic of Moldova [2015]

South-East Asia

• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
  • Strengthening intersectoral collaboration for adolescent health : report of a meeting of regional programme managers, New Delhi, India, 25-27 November 2014 [2015]
  • Scaling up adolescent health in South-East Asia [2012]
  • Strategic directions for improving adolescent health in South-East Asia Region [2011]
  • Accelerating implementation of adolescent friendly health service in the South-East Asia Region [2008]
  • Adolescent health

Tanzania

• BMC Public Health
  • Standardizing and scaling up quality adolescent friendly health services in Tanzania [2013]

United Kingdom

• Royal College of Nursing
  • Adolescent transition care: RCN guidance for nursing staff [2013]
  • Adolescence: boundaries and connections. An RCN guide for working with young people [2013]

United States of America

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Age Limit of Pediatrics [2017]
  • Achieving Quality Health Services for Adolescents [2016]

• American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Mental Health Disorders in Adolescents [2017]
  • OpenNotes and the Confidentiality of Adolescents’ Electronic Health Records [2016]
  • Guidelines for Adolescent Health Research [2016]
  • Concerns Regarding Social Media and Health Issues in Adolescents and Young Adults [2016]
  • Adolescent Confidentiality and Electronic Health Records [2014]

• CDC Adolescent and School Health
  • Publications, Journal Articles, and Resources

• CDC National Center for Health Statistics
  • Adolescent Health

• Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium
  • Adolescent/Young Adult Health Risk Behavior Assessment [2016]

• Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
  • Confidentiality Protections for Adolescents and Young Adults in the Health Care Billing and Insurance Claims Process [2016]
  • Recommendations for Electronic Health Record Use for Delivery of Adolescent Health Care [2014]
  • Promoting Equity and Reducing Health Disparities Among Racially/Ethnically Diverse Adolescents: A Position Paper of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine [2013]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO recommendations on adolescent health [2017]
  • Adolescents: health risks and solutions [2017]
  • Technical consultation on indicators of adolescent health [2015]
  • Global standards for quality health care services for adolescents [2015]
  • Core competencies in adolescent health and development for primary care providers [2015]
  • Building an adolescent-competent workforce [2015]
  • Adolescent health research priorities: report of a technical consultation [2015]
  • Health for the world’s adolescents: A second chance in the second decade [2014]
  • Making health services adolescent friendly: developing national quality standards for adolescent friendly health services [2012]
  • Child and adolescent health and development: progress report 2009: highlights [2010]
  • Adolescent job aid: a handy desk reference tool for primary level health workers [2010]
  • Strengthening the health sector response to adolescent health and development [2009]
  • Quality assessment guidebook: a guide to assessing health services for adolescent clients [2009]
  • Analytic case studies: initiatives to increase the use of health services by adolescents [2009]
  • Orientation programme on adolescent health for health-care providers [2006]
  • Global consultation on Adolescent Friendly Health Services. A consensus statement [2002]
  • What about boys? A Literature Review on the Health and Development of Adolescent Boys [2000]
  • WHO discussion papers on adolescence
  • The Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS) Tool Kit
  • Adolescent health

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