Report Reveals Key Challenges Facing Adolescents

Digital world, violence, climate crisis, overweight: experts appeal not to leave ten to 24-year-olds alone in the face of threatened health risks

Teen health 'wake-up call': Six things Australia — and the world — are being urged to do

A major new global report has found mental health issues, climate anxiety, violence and digital harms are putting adolescents' wellbeing at risk — and that now is the time to act.

Adolescent health is at a tipping point, global analysis suggests

By 2030, there will still be over 1 billion of the world's adolescents (aged 10–24 years) living in countries where preventable and treatable health problems like HIV/AIDS, early pregnancy, unsafe sex, depression, poor nutrition and injury collectively threaten the health and well-being of adolescents, suggests a new analysis from the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and well-being.

Report reveals key challenges facing adolescents

Poor mental health, rising obesity rates, exposure to violence and climate change are among the key challenges facing our adolescents today, according to a global report.

A study by The Lancet warns that global warming has consequences for the physical and mental health of young people

Global Adolescent Health at a Critical Juncture: Urgent Action Required to

The world’s adolescent population stands at a critical juncture, facing an unprecedented array of health challenges that threaten to undermine progress made over the past decades. According to a recent comprehensive analysis emerging from the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing, more than one billion young people—nearly half of the global adolescent cohort—will still reside in countries by 2030 where their health is imper…