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Africa

• WHO Regional Office for Africa
  • Regional 2017 Atlas on Adolescent and Youth Health [2017]
  • Adolescent Health

America

• 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]

Australia

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

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]

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]

Eastern Mediterranean

• WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Operationalization of the adolescent health component of the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health, 2016–2030 [2017]

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
  • Adolescent Health and Development in the WHO European Region: Can we do better? (2019) [2019]
  • Situation of child and adolescent health in Europe (2018) [2018]
  • 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]

Ghana

• WHO Regional Office for Africa
  • Adolescent Health Service Policy and Strategy, 2016-2020 [2017]

India

• 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

• 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 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]

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

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

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]

Nigeria

• Federal Ministry of Health
  • Assessment of barriers to accessing health services for disadvantaged adolescents in Nigeria [2019]
  • Situation Analysis of Adolescent Health Development in Nigeria [2018]
  • National Guidelines for Promoting Access of Young People to Adolescent and Youth-Friendly Services in Primary Health Care Facilities in Nigeria [2013]
  • National Guidelines for Integration of Adolescent and Youth-Friendly Health Services into Primary Health Care in Nigeria [2013]

Philippines

• Department of Health Philippines
  • Adolescent Health and Development Program: Manual of Operations [2017]

South-East Asia

• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
  • Strategic Guidance on Accelerating Actions for Adolescent Health in South-East Asia Region (2018-2022) [2018]
  • Strengthening intersectoral collaboration for adolescent health : report of a meeting of regional programme managers, New Delhi, India, 25-27 November 2014 [2015]
  • Accelerating implementation of adolescent friendly health service in the South-East Asia Region [2008]
  • Adolescent health

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 Regional Office for Africa
  • Assessment of barriers to accessing health services for disadvantaged adolescents in Tanzania [2019]

United Kingdom

• Public Health England
  • Early adolescence: applying All Our Health

United States of America

• American Academy of Family Physicians
  • Adolescent Health Care, Confidentiality [2018]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • 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]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance — United States, 2017 [2018]
  • Adolescent and School Health
  • Adolescent Health

• Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium
  • Adolescent/Young Adult Health Risk Behavior Assessment [2018]

• 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
  • 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 [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]
  • 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]
  • The Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS) Tool Kit
  • Adolescents: health risks and solutions: Fact sheet
  • Adolescent health

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