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Adolescent health

Africa

• BMJ Open
  • Decade of research into the acceptability of interventions aimed at improving adolescent and youth health and social outcomes in Africa: a systematic review and evidence map [2021]

• WHO African Region
  • Regional 2017 Atlas on Adolescent and Youth Health [2017]
  • Adolescent Health

Americas

• Pan American Health Organization
  • The Health of Adolescents and Youth in the Americas. Implementation of the Regional Strategy and Plan of Action on Adolescent and Youth Health 2010-2018 [2018]
  • Adolescent Health

Arab countries

• United Nations Population Fund
  • By girls, for girls - A UNFPA Framework for Adolescent Girls’ Programming in the Arab states [2023]
  • Assessment of adolescent and youth-friendly health services in the Arab region [2022]

Armenia

• Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Challenges and Opportunities to Advance Adolescent Health Measurement in Armenia: Alignment Between Global Priority Indicators and National Policies, and Feasibility of Collecting Sexual, Reproductive, and Mental Health Indicators [2024]

Australia

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • Risk taking behaviour in adolescents [2018]

Bangladesh

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Bangladesh
  • National plan of action for adolescent health strategy 2017-2030 [2016]
  • National Strategy for Adolescent Health 2017-2030 [2016]

Barbados

• World Health Organization
  • Lessons learned from applying the Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents guidance for policy development in early adopter countries: Barbados [2019]

Belize

• United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
  • Adolescent Health National Strategic Plan 2019-2030 [2022]

Canada

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Considerations for privacy and confidentiality in adolescent health care service delivery [2023]
  • Adolescent health

China

• Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Towards Comprehensive National Surveillance for Adolescent Health in China: Priority Indicators and Current Data Gaps [2020]
  • Barriers to Adolescent Health Care in Maternal and Children's Healthcare Hospitals: Based on a National Survey in China [2020]
  • Adolescent Health and Healthy China 2030: A Review [2020]

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]

Ethiopia

• Ministry of Health Ethiopia
  • Adolescent and youth health standards, implementation guideline and minimum service delivery package [2022]
  • National adolescents and youth health strategy (2021-2025) [2021]

• WHO African Region
  • Report of adolescent health services barriers assessment in Ethiopia [2021]

Europe

• WHO European Region
  • Child and adolescent health in the WHO European Region: providing services to adolescents fact sheet [2024]
  • Child and adolescent health in Europe: report on progress to 2021 [2024]
  • Pocket book of primary health care for children and adolescents: guidelines for health promotion, disease prevention and management from the newborn period to adolescence (2022) [2022]
  • Adolescents taking the lead [2021]

Ghana

• Pan African Medical Journal
  • Understanding adolescent health care services in Ghana: a scoping review [2024]

• Reproductive Health
  • Prevalence and barriers to the utilization of adolescent and youth-friendly health services in Ghana: systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

• WHO African Region
  • Adolescent Health Service Policy and Strategy, 2016-2020 [2017]

India

• F1000Research
  • Adolescent Friendly Health Clinics (AFHCS) in India and their compliance with government benchmarks: A scoping review [2023]

• Indian Academy of Pediatrics
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics Consensus Guidelines for Adolescent Friendly Health Services [2022]

• Indian Pediatrics
  • Joint Statement on Comprehensive Education for Adolescents and Young People to Support Their Healthy Development and Wellbeing: Adolescent Health Academy, Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India, Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine, and Indian Public Health Association [2024]

• Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia
  • Review of the India Adolescent Health Strategy in the context of disease burden among adolescents [2023]

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
  • Adolescent Health

• Reproductive Health
  • Adolescent health programming in India: a rapid review [2020]
  • Measuring adolescent friendly health services in India: A scoping review of evaluations [2016]

International

• Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Trends in Adolescent Health: Successes and Challenges From 2010 to the Present [2024]
  • Towards Harmonized Adolescent Health Measurement: Assessing Alignment Between Current Recommendations and the Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent Health-Recommended Indicators [2024]
  • The Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent health (GAMA) Initiative—Rethinking Adolescent Metrics [2019]
  • The Global Early Adolescent Study: An Exploration of the Factors that Shape Adolescence [2017]
  • Improving the Quality of Health Care Services for Adolescents, Globally: A Standards-Driven Approach [2015]

• Lancet
  • Progress in adolescent health and wellbeing: tracking 12 headline indicators for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016 [2019]

• United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
  • Adolescent health dashboards country profiles

• United Nations Population Fund
  • Technical guidance for prioritizing adolescent health [2017]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Pan American Health Organization
  • No Time to Lose. Health Challenges for Adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean [2022]

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]

Malawi

• Ministry of Health Malawi
  • Malawi national youth friendly health services strategy 2022 - 2030 [2022]

Malaysia

• Ministry of Health Malaysia
  • Adolescent Health Survey 2022 [2022]
  • Adolescent Healthcare

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]

Myanmar

• Global Health Action
  • Matching action to need: an analysis of Global Burden of Disease 2017 and population health data to focus adolescent health policy and actions in Myanmar [2021]

New Zealand

• Health New Zealand
  • Youth health

• Starship
  • Adolescent Consultation and the HEeADSSS Assessment

Nigeria

• World Health Organization
  • Assessment of barriers to accessing health services for disadvantaged adolescents in Nigeria [2019]

Palestine

• BMJ Open
  • Adolescent health research and initiatives in the occupied Palestinian territory: a scoping review [2025]

Republic of Korea

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Prevalence of Unmet Healthcare Needs in Adolescents and Associated Factors: Data from the Seventh Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2016–2018) [2021]

Samoa

• Ministry of Health Samoa
  • Adolescent and Youth-Friendly Health Services Guidelines [2023]

South Africa

• National Department of Health South Africa
  • National Adolescent and Youth Health Policy - 2017 [2017]

South America

• Health Research Policy and Systems
  • The role of nurses in implementation of public policy on adolescent health in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru [2024]

Sudan

• World Health Organization
  • Lessons learned from applying the Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents guidance for policy development in early adopter countries: Sudan [2019]

Tanzania

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

• WHO African Region
  • Assessment of barriers to accessing health services for disadvantaged adolescents in Tanzania [2019]

Uganda

• Ministry of Health Uganda
  • Adolescent Health Policy Guidelines and Service Standards [2012]

United Kingdom

• Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • You're Welcome': establishing youth-friendly health and care services
  • Establishing youth-friendly health and care services

• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
  • Adolescent health

United States

• American Academy of Family Physicians
  • Adolescent Health Clinical Recommendations & Guidelines

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Use of Chaperones for the Pediatric and Adolescent Encounter: Policy Statement [2025]
  • Confidentiality in the Care of Adolescents: Technical Report [2024]
  • Confidentiality in the Care of Adolescents: Policy Statement [2024]
  • Unique Needs of the Adolescent [2019]
  • Targeted Reforms in Health Care Financing to Improve the Care of Adolescents and Young Adults [2018]
  • Supporting the Health Care Transition From Adolescence to Adulthood in the Medical Home [2018]
  • Age Limit of Pediatrics [2017]
  • Achieving Quality Health Services for Adolescents [2016]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Confidentiality in Adolescent Health Care [2020]
  • Promoting Healthy Relationships in Adolescents [2018]
  • OpenNotes and the Confidentiality of Adolescents’ Electronic Health Records [2018]
  • Mental Health Disorders in Adolescents [2017]
  • Guidelines for Adolescent Health Research [2016]
  • Concerns Regarding Social Media and Health Issues in Adolescents and Young Adults [2016]

• Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
  • Confidentiality in Adolescent Health Care [2017]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance — United States, 2023 [2024]
  • Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey — United States, January–June 2021 [2022]
  • Adolescent Health

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Social Media and Adolescent Health [2024]
  • Promoting Positive Adolescent Health Behaviors and Outcomes: Thriving in the 21st Century [2019]

• Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
  • Guidelines on the Inclusion and Protection of Adolescent Minors and Young Adults in Health Research: A Position Statement of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine [2025]
  • The 21st Century Cures Act & Adolescent Confidentiality [2021]
  • 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]

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Population Affairs
  • Adolescent Health

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Guidance for countries to assess adolescent health and well-being [2025]
  • Working for a brighter, healthier future: how WHO improves health and promotes well-being for the world’s adolescent, 2nd ed [2024]
  • The adolescent health indicators recommended by the Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent Health: guidance for monitoring adolescent health at country, regional, and global levels [2024]
  • Adolescents in a changing world: the case for urgent investment [2024]
  • Improving the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents:guidance on scheduled child and adolescent well-care visits [2023]
  • Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!) - Second edition [2023]
  • Helping Adolescents Thrive Toolkit [2021]
  • Youth-centred digital health interventions: a framework for planning, developing and implementing solutions with and for young people [2020]
  • Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Adolescents and youth [2020]
  • Handbook for conducting an adolescent health services barriers assessment (AHSBA) with a focus on disadvantaged adolescents: knowing which adolescents are being left behind on the path to universal health coverage, and why [2019]
  • Advocating for change for adolescents! A Practical Toolkit for Young People to Advocate for Improved Adolescent Health and Well-being [2018]
  • WHO recommendations on adolescent health: guidelines approved by the WHO guidelines review committee [2017]
  • Transformative accountability for adolescents: accountability for the health and human rights of women, children and adolescents in the 2030 agenda [2017]
  • Global accelerated action for the health of adolescents (AA-HA!): guidance to support country implementation [2017]
  • Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health (2016-2030): adolescents' health: report by the Secretariat [2017]
  • 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]
  • Quality assessment guidebook: a guide to assessing health services for adolescent clients [2009]
  • Global School-based Student Health Survey
  • Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent health (GAMA)
  • Adolescent health
  • Adolescent data
  • Adolescent country profile
  • Adolescent and young adult health: Fact sheet
  • Adolescent and Young Adult Health - WHO guidelines

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • Child and adolescent health in humanitarian settings: operational guide: a holistic approach for programme managers [2021]
  • Operationalization of the adolescent health component of the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health, 2016–2030 [2017]
  • Child and adolescent health

WHO South-East Asia Region

• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • Regional meeting to achieve universal health coverage for adolescent populations through adolescent responsive health system, 18-20 September 2024, Kathmandu, Nepal [2024]
  • Regional consultation on parent support for early childhood development and adolescent health in South-East Asia [2023]
  • Rapid assessment of the implementation of adolescent health programmes in countries of South-East Asia [2021]
  • Adolescent friendly health services: supervisory/self-assessment checklist and user's guide [2020]
  • Strategic Guidance on Accelerating Actions for Adolescent Health in South-East Asia Region (2018-2022) [2018]
  • Adolescent health

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