{"id":10,"date":"2014-02-25T21:40:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2022-08-17T11:59:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T01:59:25","slug":"lancet-commission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/lancet-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancet Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Relative to other ages, this is the largest generation of adolescents and young adults aged 10 to 24 years that the world will ever have. In some low and middle-income countries more than one in three of the total population is a \u2018young person\u2019. The rapid improvements in child health and survival in many countries have not been matched by improvements in the health of adolescents and young adults.<\/span><\/p>

This demographic transition is being paralleled by an equally fast epidemiological transition. At the same time as the burden of infectious disease is declining, non-communicable diseases including injuries, mental health, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, diabetes and obesity are increasing dramatically. These conditions commonly have their origins in childhood and adolescence.<\/span><\/p>

These issues were summarised in the\u00a02012 Lancet Series<\/a>\u00a0on Adolescent Health. The series also highlighted key limitations in the current global public health response. First, policy makers have yet to respond to the growing case for investment in adolescent health as a foundation for future global health. Second, there is a need for investment in better health information around young people to both ensure their health needs are visible and to monitor investments that we may make in their health. Third, many effective interventions require action outside the health service sector.\u00a0 In particular we need integrated intersectoral initiatives across education, employment, legislation, taxation and health service delivery for effective responses to the major health problems of young people.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Lancet Commission group first met in London in 2009 to plan the Commission\u2019s work. Auspiced by The Lancet<\/em> the Commission was established under the leadership of adolescent health specialists at The University of Melbourne (Professors George Patton and Susan Sawyer), The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Dr David Ross), University College London (Professor Russell Viner) and Columbia University (Professor John Santelli). <\/span><\/p>

The Commission had 30 members<\/a> from 14 countries spanning Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America. It brought together disciplines from across public health, economics, political and social science, behavioural science and neuroscience to consider strategies to advance adolescent health. The Commission included members both at the science\/policy interface and young people themselves.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The work of the Commission was organised around six themes:<\/span>
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  1. Adolescence within the life course<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Promoting health equity and justice for young people<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Increasing global visibility, monitoring and accountability related to young people<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Strengthening protective environments for young people<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Scaling up sustainable and effective actions among young people<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Engaging and empowering young people<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Five main\u202fprojects\u202fwere established to take these themes forward.\u202fThe overall aim of the individual project work was the production of a coherent narrative for the adolescent global field, which was published in 2016, Our future: a Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing.<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n