Adolescent health

Adolescent health

Adolescent health

So we have the perpetual adolescent.

It is also true that indicators concerning early adolescent pregnancy and first time maternal mortality among adolescent and young women have not yet decreased.

Adolescent reproductive health problems have also attracted attention.

The Committee recommends that the State party pay close attention to adolescent health, taking into account the Committee's general comment No. 4 on adolescent health and development.

Sarah Jayne Blakemore The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain

Early marriage and pregnancy among adolescent women often curtail their education.

(f) To design and implement programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them and also the adolescent fathers to continue and complete their education

You cannot compete with the environment, if you have an adolescent dog's brain.

Parents, also, have the right and the duty, to represent their adolescent children.

The Government and NGOs are working together to address adolescent reproductive health issues.

The Committee recommends that the State party ensure adequate adolescent health services, as stated in its general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health, implementing in particular programmes on reproductive health, sex education and family planning.

Interest has increased in weekly supplementation for adolescent girls and in the fortification of flour.

It has an installed capacity to attend 17,870 child and adolescent victims of sexual violence.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

One of America s last competitive cultural exports, it seems, is the post adolescent male escape fantasy.

Reproductive health (maternal and child health, family planning, adolescent health, men's health, women's health, safe motherhood).

Pan American Congress of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Havana, 30 March to 1 April 2004.

Children, in families or unaccompanied, women, especially those who were single or heads of households, adolescent girls, who were at risk of sexual violence, adolescent boys, who were often coerced into becoming child soldiers, and elderly and disabled persons all needed assistance.

Support for addressing adolescent learning needs and expanding their learning opportunities is encompassed under focus area 2.

In 2004, there are 250 reference services to care for women and adolescent victims of sexual violence.

The Committee is concerned at the lack of adolescent health services and the large number of teenage pregnancies.

Adolescent fertility can be defined as the annual number of births per 100 women aged 15 19 years.

And we're so excited. Monday night we have the world's leading expert coming in to speak about adolescent depression.

(d) To promote an educational setting that eliminates all barriers that impede the schooling of pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers

Moreover, adolescent fertility and abortion rates were high, and the incidence of sexually transmitted infections, particularly HIV AIDS, was growing.

This event was sponsored by the Latin American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP).

So brain research has shown that the adolescent brain undergoes really quite profound development, and this has implications for education, for rehabilitation, and intervention. The environment, including teaching, can and does shape the developing adolescent brain, and yet it's only relatively recently that we have been routinely educating teenagers in the West.

Service network for women, child and adolescent victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence, phase II (women's and children's police stations).

Furthermore, adequate sexual education and family planning services should be available throughout the country, especially in rural areas and for adolescent girls.

ECA Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (Lei nº. 8.069, de 13 de julho de 1990) the Statute of Child and Adolescent

The Programme aims to promote adolescent health standards through health education on health related issues in general, and on reproductive health in particular.

The Committee recommends that the State party ensure the full implementation of relevant legislation, in particular the Statute of the Child and Adolescent.

The Committee recommends that the State party further improve the adolescent health programme addressing, specifically, reproductive health issues, sex education and mental health.

It is, as yet, a failed nation, or an adolescent nation, or many nations together in one huge territory, held together by force.

But we seem to have an expectation that the suburbs should forever remain frozen in whatever adolescent form they were first given birth to.

The Committee notes the efforts undertaken by the State party to implement the right to health of adolescents, in particular the adolescent health programme.

(6) National Council for Young Persons, the role of which is to establish working coordination to benefit adolescent girls in conditions of equality with males

The Committee is concerned that insufficient attention has been given by the State party to adolescent health issues, including developmental, mental and reproductive health concerns.

It has been reported that adolescents aged 15 19 years represent 0.5 percent of cases of substance use (Adolescent Reproductive Health Survey in 2002 2003).

Providing separate sanitation facilities for girls and female teachers in schools has been used effectively to encourage girls' school attendance, especially in the adolescent years.

And from that little egg, they pass through this spiky little porcupine fish stage, reminiscent of their ancestry, and develop this is their little adolescent stage.

But what might feel just right for that middle aged executive can be a problem for an adolescent who needs to develop face to face relationships.