Academic Resources: topical resources: adolescent health
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research tools
syllabi: adolescent health
the Eldis
Children and Young People Resource Guide
The Child Care and Early Education Research Connections Talk listserv is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas and to stimulate discussion on relevant research issues related to the field of child care and early education.
The Communication Initiative's Adolescents
Window
from the Global Reproductive Health Forum Research Library
Maternal
Health: Adolescence
Abortion:
Abortion and Adolescents
Contraception:
Methods for Adolescents
HIV/AIDS:
Adolescents
Teens
and STDs
Adolescent
Health and Development Resources -- The Department of Child and Adolescent
Health and Development, World Health Organization
On this page you can find CAH documents and tools on adolescent health and
development, including advocacy, technical reports, research and evidence,
and tools and guidelines.
The
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health -- Carolina
Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Add Health is a school-based study of the health-related behaviors of adolescents
in grades 7 to 12. It has been designed to explore the causes of these behaviors,
with an emphasis on the influence of social context.
centers, organizations, projects
Centre for Child-Focused Anthropological Research, Brunel University
The Center for Children and Childhood Studies at Rutgers-Camden
Childhood Studies at Case Western Reserve University
Institute of Education Childhood Research and Policy Centre (CRPC), University of London
Adolescent
& School Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion
The Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) seeks to prevent the
most serious health risk behaviors among children, adolescents and young
adults. DASH implements four components: Identify and Monitor; Synthesize
and Apply Research; Enable Constituents; and Evaluate.
Adolescent
Health Transition Project
The Adolescent Health Transition Project is designed to help smooth
the transition from pediatric to adult health care for adolescents with
special health care needs. This site is a resource for information, materials,
and links to other people with an interest in health transition issues.
Centre
for Adolescent Health, University of Melbourne
The Centre for Adolescent Health aims to improve the health and well-being
of young people from 10 - 24 years of age through the provision of clinical
services, community programs, education and training, health promotional
programs in settings relevant for young people, and research into health
risk behaviours and factors which protect young people from harm.
The
National Adolescent Health Information Center (NAHIC), University of
California, San Francisco
The overall goal of NAHIC is to improve the health of adolescents by serving
as a national resource for adolescent health information and research and
to assure the integration, synthesis, coordination and dissemination of
adolescent health-related information.
YouthNet,
Family Health International (FHI)
YouthNet is a global program to improve reproductive health and prevent
the spread of HIV/AIDS among people 10 to 24 years old. Most importantly,
it is a collaboration with the young people whose lives it is designed to
improve. But it also includes the energy, insight, and experience of parents,
schoolteachers, employers, policymakers, the media, health professionals,
nongovernmental organizations, religious and community leaders, and other
youth networks.
publications & reports
State
of World Population 2006
A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration
Journal
of Adolescent Health
The Journal of Adolescent Health is a multidisciplinary journal devoted
to the unique health care problems of the adolescent. Each issue contains
original articles, brief scientific reports, analytic subject reviews and
case reports. The journal also features an annotated bibliography of current
publications in the literature.
links
UNFPA: Supporting
Adolescents and Youth
American Medical Association: adolescent
health link
Youth Coalition: links
and resources
Sexuality Information and Education
Council of the U.S. (SIECUS)
Health
Risks for Adolescents from the Adolescent
Directory On-Line (ADOL), Center for Adolescent Studies, Indiana University
BASICS II The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) flagship project is BASICS II, or Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival.
updated March 31, 2007