Regina Guthold1, Ann-Beth Moller2, Emmanuel Adebayo3, Liliana Carvajal4, Carolin Ekman5, Lucy Fagan6, Jane Ferguson7, Howard S Friedman8, Mariame Guèye Ba9, Ann Hagell10, Kid Kohl11, Peter S Azzopardi12. 1. Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing Department, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: gutholdr@who.int. 2. UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. 3. Adolescent Health Unit, Institute of Child Health, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. 4. Division of Data Analytics Planning and Monitoring, Data and Analytics Section, UNICEF, New York, New York. 5. Independent Consultant, Sexual and Heproductive Health and Rights, Geneva, Switzerland. 6. UN Major Group for Children and Youth, London, United Kingdom. 7. Independent Consultant, Adolescent Health, Geneva, Switzerland. 8. Technical Division, United Nations Population Fund, New York, New York. 9. University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Odontology/Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinic, University Teaching Hospital A. Le Dantec, Dakar, Senegal. 10. Association for Young People's Health, London, United Kingdom. 11. Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing Department, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland. 12. Global Adolescent Health Group, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Aboriginal Health Equity theme, Adelaide, Australia; Centre for Adolescent Health, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Abstract
PURPOSE: We establish priority areas for adolescent health measurement and identify current gaps, aiming to focus resources on the most relevant data to improve adolescent health. METHODS: We collected four critical inputs to inform priority setting: perspectives of youth representatives, country priorities, disease burden, and existing measurement efforts. Health areas identified from the inputs were grouped, mapped, and summarized according to their frequency in the inputs. Using a Delphi-like approach, international experts then selected core, expanded, and context-specific priority areas for adolescent health measurement from all health areas identified. RESULTS: Across the four inputs, we identified 99 measurement areas relevant to adolescent health and grouped them under six domains: policies, programs, laws; systems performance and interventions; health determinants; health behaviors and risks; subjective well-being; and health outcomes and conditions. Areas most frequently occurring were mental health and weight status in youth representatives' opinions; sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS in country policies and perspectives; road injury, self-harm, skin diseases, and mental disorders in the disease burden analysis; and adolescent fertility in measurement initiatives. Considering all four inputs, experts selected 33 core, 19 expanded, and 6 context-specific adolescent health measurement areas. CONCLUSION: The adolescent health measurement landscape is vast, covering a large variety of topics. The foci of the measurement initiatives we reviewed do not reflect the most important health areas according to youth representatives' or country-level perspectives, or the adolescent disease burden. Based on these inputs, we propose a set of priority areas to focus national and global adolescent health measurement.
PURPOSE: We establish priority areas for adolescent health measurement and identify current gaps, aiming to focus resources on the most relevant data to improve adolescent health. METHODS: We collected four critical inputs to inform priority setting: perspectives of youth representatives, country priorities, disease burden, and existing measurement efforts. Health areas identified from the inputs were grouped, mapped, and summarized according to their frequency in the inputs. Using a Delphi-like approach, international experts then selected core, expanded, and context-specific priority areas for adolescent health measurement from all health areas identified. RESULTS: Across the four inputs, we identified 99 measurement areas relevant to adolescent health and grouped them under six domains: policies, programs, laws; systems performance and interventions; health determinants; health behaviors and risks; subjective well-being; and health outcomes and conditions. Areas most frequently occurring were mental health and weight status in youth representatives' opinions; sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS in country policies and perspectives; road injury, self-harm, skin diseases, and mental disorders in the disease burden analysis; and adolescent fertility in measurement initiatives. Considering all four inputs, experts selected 33 core, 19 expanded, and 6 context-specific adolescent health measurement areas. CONCLUSION: The adolescent health measurement landscape is vast, covering a large variety of topics. The foci of the measurement initiatives we reviewed do not reflect the most important health areas according to youth representatives' or country-level perspectives, or the adolescent disease burden. Based on these inputs, we propose a set of priority areas to focus national and global adolescent health measurement.
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Authors: Holly Newby; Andrew D Marsh; Ann-Beth Moller; Emmanuel Adebayo; Peter S Azzopardi; Liliana Carvajal; Lucy Fagan; Howard S Friedman; Mariame Guèye Ba; Ann Hagell; Alison Morgan; Elizabeth Saewyc; Regina Guthold Journal: J Adolesc Health Date: 2021-07-13 Impact factor: 5.012